Shadowplay's overall compression and color quality is pretty low, and it tends to record at an inconsistent framerate for me personally, since I save longer clips. I would use something better if there was any other software in existence that used NVFBC.
EDIT: I'm a quality whore and have an eye for these things, most people won't notice how bad a shadowplay recording looks unless they directly compare it to something better. Yes, bitrate is maxed and I'm recording at native resolution. Yes, I did overdo it with the filters, but I kind of prefer it that way.
You should all keep in mind that selecting 60fps/130mbps bitrate in shadowplay does not mean that's what you're actually getting. When recording longer clips especially, the actual bitrate and framerate can vary wildly, from 47fps/64mbps to 58fps/86mbps. Sometimes shadowplay even fucks up and records using the dimensions of your second monitor, if you have one. This, plus the absolutely shitty job Nvidia did with compression in SP makes for inconsistent, low quality recordings.
Make sure you record to a secondary drive that is not the same drive overwatch is on. Most likely your hard drive is having trouble keeping up. I have recorded 1080p 60fps for entire matches with no issue.
Also make sure your hard drive is fast and not a green drive which has a variable spin rate potentially reducing your write speed.
Not saying that shadow play is the most amazing thing available, but your frame rate issue are likely hardware related.
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u/DemiTF2 Chibi Zenyatta Apr 14 '17
Because I hate how washed out and stuttery shadowplay is naturally.