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NVIDIA GeForce "Playback the last 3 mins" Feature

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by B3_Burner, Aug 7, 2020.

  1. B3_Burner

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    Hi,

    Anyone here who uses this and can tell me how it works?

    I hit Alt + Z, and the item comes up where I can look at and set criteria. It tells me where to record, where to host television shows (I guess those are called live streams?).

    But it doesn't in so many words tell me how to access the part where it will automatically save the last rolling 3 minutes of game play if I want to replay it, without having hit the record button ahead of time.

    Does anyone know how to do this? Is there any advantage to doing this, versus pressing Alt + R in the regular game?

    I hope I'm making sense here. Thank you in advance.
     
  2. Nadeox1

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    In short, it allows you to save the last X minutes of footage.
    Let's say something cool happened, and you did not press record in advance. You can use that feature to have it save the last X minutes of footage since the button was pressed. The files are saved in the same location of where you set your normal recordings to be saved.

    OBS has a similar feature, it's called 'Replay Buffer' there.

    ALT+R is a different thing, as that is a game feature and it records a replay file that the game can open and play back (ie. a 3D replay, not a video file): you can change the camera's positions and look at the action from various angles.

    A GeForce Shadowplay footage is a normal video footage instead.
     
  3. B3_Burner

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    Nadeox, Thank you so much. You cleared up a major misconception I had. That is to say, I thought it was "the last x minutes" of a 3D replay where I could place the camera at any angle to review that action. I was not aware that it was only a video playback of whatever viewpoint I had happened to have it set at-- during those x minutes.

    Now I understand. That's cool that there's a way to playback what I didn't think to manually record in the first place. But it's not nearly as useful as a manual implementation of Alt + R.
     
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