This has long been one of the most talked-about aspects of NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience programme. It was once known as ShadowPlay. By continuously capturing the previous 20 minutes of on-screen time, Instant Replay enables users to preserve some of their favourite gaming experiences. What makes this function special is that, while it’s continuously recording, only those 20 minutes are recorded, and the rest is erased from your computer. This significantly reduces the need for storage space. Maintaining Instant Replay enabled will enable you to share your exciting moments with your pals so that they may witness everything as well once you have fully conquered your opponents. This only functions if you have a GeForce GTX 650 or newer NVIDIA graphics card. Therefore, you will regrettably be unable to use this feature if you have an earlier model or an AMD graphics card. So let’s look at how to set up Instant Replay on NVIDIA GeForce Experience if you’re interested in checking it out:
Setting Up Instant Replay on NVIDIA GeForce Experience
An NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card is installed in my laptop, which I used to test this capability. Therefore, you should be able to try this out if your graphics card is a GeForce GTX 650 or newer.
You must first download and instal the NVIDIA GeForce Experience software and upgrade your graphics drivers. Once you’re finished, just carry out the following actions to complete this without difficulty:
- You will be able to bring up the GeForce Experience Share overlay by using Alt + Z keyboard shortcut. Now, you need to go to Settings by clicking on the gear icon.
- Now, scroll down to the last option and click on Privacy control .
- Once done, choose Yes to enable Privacy control for GeForce Experience. By enabling this, you let GeForce Experience to capture your desktop for Instant Replay, Record, Broadcase and Screenshot. If you didn t complete this step, you won t be able to enable Instant Replay at all.
- Once everything s done, go back to the main menu of the GeForce Experience Share overlay, and click on Instant Replay -> Turn on, in order to start using this feature right away.
Using Instant Replay on NVIDIA GeForce Experience
Now that you have enabled Instant Replay, let’s look at how to use it correctly. You can leave it activated for as long as you like, but before you use it, you might need to adjust some settings, depending on the amount of storage space that is available on your PC. So, to avoid confusion, just adhere to the guidelines below:
- Open up the GeForce Experience Share overlay by clicking Alt + Z , and then go to Customize under Instant Replay.
- In the next menu, you ll notice that there are multiple options that you can fiddle around with. Here, you ll be able to customize the Replay length, video quality, resolution and even frame rate. Once you ve selected the required options based on your preferences and system hardware, you can click Save in order to store you Instant Replay configuration.
- If you want to save the footage that you recorded using Instant Replay, just open up the GeForce Experience Share overlay and head over to the Instant Replay section. Simply click on Save to store the video on your computer. The default directory used by GeForce Experience to store all your videos is C:\Users\<Username>\Videos .
Without even having to download it, you can opt to upload the Instant Replay video immediately to Facebook and YouTube. How much simpler is that, exactly? In order to properly configure and utilise the Instant Replay feature of the NVIDIA GeForce Experience software, that’s pretty much all you need to do.
SEE ALSO: NVIDIA GeForce Experience Gameplay Recording and Streaming Guide
Ready to Try Instant Replay?
Without a question, Instant Replay may be the simplest method for capturing all of your most important gaming experiences. When you don’t have the time to wait for the ideal moment and manually Start/Stop recording the part you truly need, this tool performs incredibly well. The performance impact on your games as a result of employing this function, however, is entirely dependent on your computer hardware, so keep that in mind. It is usually completely insignificant. Thus, we have no complaints in that area. What are your thoughts on the Instant Replay feature, then? Are you prepared to give it a try? Please share your insightful thoughts in the comments box below to let us know.