When NVIDIA introduced its GeForce Experience software in the spring of 2012, the company launched a platform which would house many neat graphics toys to come. That includes things like automatic configuration of your games, advanced recording of what’s on your screen, automatic driver downloads, and a really fun login system that everyone seems to really love.
GeForce Experience’s original release
Today, GeForce Experience manages things like the Ansel screenshot tool, FreeStyle game filtering, and in recent years, desktop recording. While many gamers stick to OBS Studio for much of their recording, ShadowPlay does a great job of recording with minimal resources, and its flexibility combined with its ease-of-use makes it an attractive option.
NVIDIA Quadro Experience
Ahem… but it’s been an attractive option not available to NVIDIA’s own ProViz customers, those rocking Quadro graphics cards. Fortunately, this is finally changing, with NVIDIA having just opened up a beta that you can join to test the new solution ahead of a full launch. Perhaps in time, Quadro Experience will be embedded in the driver installer like on the GeForce side, but for now it looks like it will be treated as a separate download.
ShadowPlay Desktop Recording Overlay
Like GFE, Quadro Experience gives users the ShadowPlay feature to take advantage of, allowing GPU-accelerated recording with a good amount of flexibility. You can either record straight to your internal drives, or stream to services like YouTube or Twitch.
One of the most attractive bullet points with ShadowPlay is its ability to record up to the previous 20 minutes of action, which is extremely useful for when things go wrong, and you want to go back in time to figure out why. We’ve used this feature to troubleshoot like that, and it sure does help. It’s also great for recording software tutorials. And when it’s time to have fun, ShadowPlay will transition to game recording without skipping a beat.
Like GeForce Experience, this ProViz counterpart is going to support NVIDIA-exclusive gaming features. That includes Ansel, a screenshot tool that allows you to break away from your character in supported games to snap the ultimate screenshot. Similarly, FreeStyle allows you to play supported games with a variety of filters, giving you plenty of control over the end result. The ability to automatically configure games based on hardware is also being added, which comes in addition to the ongoing inclusion of per-title game optimizations.
As mentioned above, Quadro Experience currently requires a beta sign-up to access!