There are quite a few customizations you can make so spend a couple of minutes working through them if you like before starting your recording. You may want to set up hotkeys to turn recording on and off to save time or you can use the mouse and the UI. If you make changes, select Save after each to keep them. Select HUD to change the layout of the ShadowPlay UI.Select Recordings to modify where your files are kept.Select Video Capture to modify recording quality settings.This will bring up the UI where you can make changes. Scroll up to In-Game Overlay at the top and toggle it to on.This tells you if you’re capable of running ShadowPlay or not. Look for check marks by the list of your hardware. Scroll to In-Game Overlay under Features.Navigate to the cog Settings icon in the top right of the main window.Allow the GeForce Experience to update itself and any drivers.Setup takes less than five minutes and most of the time the defaults are fine. The app will tell you if your system is up to the task or not and will link to the page above too.

Before we use ShadowPlay, we need to enable it within the GeForce Experience.

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