So I found this cool program that helps to optimize your game 

 

http://www.geforce.co.uk/geforce-experience/shadowplay

 

It basically takes the games installed on your PC, gets data from the graphic settings of that game the affect they have on your PC, your PC's hardware and takes all that to give a good balance of FPS and Graphics. AND it's free! It will also inform you if your PC doesn't meet the minimum requirements for a game

tl;dr? I highly recommend the Nvidia GeForce Experience Suite to anybody with an Nvidia GPU. Shadowplay is not only the best video recorder I've ever had, it's free for those who have modern Nvidia GPUs.  

 

But actually, GeForce experience does game optimization for you. You have linked to Nvidia's Shadowplay, which is part of the GeForce Experience program, but something else entirely. If you have a modern Nvidia GPU, Shadowplay can stream your gameplay or even your desktop to Twitch.tv. Shadowplay also can record video using your GPU's processor, which will help tremendously if you have a powerful GPU, but not a powerful CPU (Or the CPU is working heavy for that game). Another nice feature about shadowplay is you can set it to where it is constantly recording, and will only save the last 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, or however many minutes you set. It's the best video recorder I've ever had. It uses very little system resources, and as an added bonus, it's free. 

tl;dr? I highly recommend the Nvidia GeForce Experience Suite to anybody with an Nvidia GPU. Shadowplay is not only the best video recorder I've ever had, it's free for those who have modern Nvidia GPUs.  

 

But actually, GeForce experience does game optimization for you. You have linked to Nvidia's Shadowplay, which is part of the GeForce Experience program, but something else entirely. If you have a modern Nvidia GPU, Shadowplay can stream your gameplay or even your desktop to Twitch.tv. Shadowplay also can record video using your GPU's processor, which will help tremendously if you have a powerful GPU, but not a powerful CPU (Or the CPU is working heavy for that game). Another nice feature about shadowplay is you can set it to where it is constantly recording, and will only save the last 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, or however many minutes you set. It's the best video recorder I've ever had. It uses very little system resources, and as an added bonus, it's free. 

Yeah, can I ask what a desktop GPU is? It says I need a desktop GTX 600 to stream and record, yet I have a GTX 610? I knew of the streaming and recording alraedy, and when I get a new GPU (so I can run GTA4 over 30FPS), I will use it instead of my current one

Yeah, can I ask what a desktop GPU is? It says I need a desktop GTX 600 to stream and record, yet I have a GTX 610? I knew of the streaming and recording alraedy, and when I get a new GPU (so I can run GTA4 over 30FPS), I will use it instead of my current one

 

There is no GTX 610. The GTX series starts at 645. Anything under that (605-640) is a GT. Therefore you must have a GT 610, which does not have support for video capture.

I never trusted softwares supposed to "improve" the performance and optimization for whatever game you're playing. Everytime I used one, be it from a third editor or Nvidia itself, it always either created more problems than it solved, or drained more resource than before without improving anything.

a GPU (Or Graphics Processing Unit) is your Graphics Card. Your CPU (Or Central Processing Unit) is your processor attached to the motherboard. 

 

willpv is right, I believe you need one of Nvidia's GTX series cards in order for the software to work. 

I love Shadowplay.  LOVE.  Best video recorder out there, not just for games, but for anything you do on the PC, including tutorials, etc.  Another cool feature is that it supports PTT for the microphone too.  Not only is it efficient and uses the hardware capabilities of the graphics card, it also real-time hardware-encodes the videos to H.264 on the fly, so takes up less space, and it eliminates the need to spend hours doing it in post to uncompressed video files in 10's to 100's of GBs that Bandicam or FRAPS put out...

 

What irks me the most is when I see people with GTX 7-series GPUs listed in their specs post videos with the Bandicam banner on top.  Why?!  Bothers me beyond belief. =(

Edited October 7, 201411 yr by sixium

I love Shadowplay.  Best video recorder out there, not just for games, but for anything you do on the PC, including tutorials, etc.  What irks me the most is when I see people with GTX 7-series GPUs listed in their specs post videos with the Bandicam banner on top.  Why?!

Well when I get my GTX680 I will definetely be using it, I think no one uses it because it is not very well known (I only found it when I searched ''free video recording software'' and a post on PC GAMER was there). Maybe if they released it on steam (but said you must have GTX card to use it) then alot more people would use it

I never trusted softwares supposed to "improve" the performance and optimization for whatever game you're playing. Everytime I used one, be it from a third editor or Nvidia itself, it always either created more problems than it solved, or drained more resource than before without improving anything.

It doesn't improve the performance per say.

It just takes your system, and the games options, and finds a good mix of graphics and fps (and I think it aims for 60FPS but I'm not certain, as I hit 40FPS with GTASA and it downgraded a few things and now I get 60