I have pretty decent settings for shadowplay, but everyone on the site seems focused on OBS. Are speed running components (live split, uploading streams, etc.) the same with shadowplay or will I need to switch software?
With OBS, I can more or less capture any visual thing my computer can generate regardless of anything; it runs smoothly (better than I expect given my hardware), doesn't drop any frames for me, and, well... works pretty well and efficiently. I haven't had a reason to explore outside of it tbh.
That and when I messed around with it, the interface was all wonky, and it only appeared to recognize a couple steam games I had. Getting it set up also just involved another series of product registrations and account creations which I didn't really see the point of.
Most use obs since it works, twitch suggests it and it is free. Some use x-split and some use other programs. It does not matter what you use, as long as it can provide the proof. Hell, you can even just point a camera/phone at your screen and upload the footage if there is no other way for you to record.
If you would like the benefits of Shadowplay then in OBS where you can configure output set your encoder to NVENC. This is exactly what shadowplay uses for the encoding and makes it so you are encoding the stream with the gpu. There is a dedicated chip on modern Nvidia GPU's that allow for this and basically uses all those extra cuda cores. I recommend just setting this up cause then you have the customization of using OBS but the performance of using Shadowplay.
