Speaking of gaming, if you like to switch to a couch and console on occasion we also have a guide dedicated to explaining how to use Discord on Xbox One (the process is the same on the Series X). Now you know how to capture video and livestream yourself playing your favorite PC games!

If you want to fine-tune how your stream looks, simply click Settings to modify details like what resolution you're streaming out, what overlays you're using, and the like. Simply click Broadcast live instead ( or use the Alt + F8 keyboard shortcut) and you'll be able to stream live video of yourself playing games out to any number of supported streaming services (including Facebook, Twitch and YouTube at time of publication) once you log into them. If you set resolution to “in-game”, it appears that you can still set the bitrate to 130mbps, but in reality Shadowplay will only record at a measly 85mbps.If you'd rather stream out live video of yourself playing games via Nvidia's software, you can. If you set the resolution to 4K instead of your actual resolution, you will gain access to higher recording bitrates which is required to get good looking recordings from Shadowplay.

Set bitrate to 130mbps (or whichever highest bitrate you can select).

Set Resolution to 4K (even if you don’t have a 4K screen!!).

The most important aspect is correctly settings up the video capture recording settings tab in the Nvidia GeForce Experience.

You will need an Nvidia GPU that supports NVENC.

Further, I show you some how to avoid laggy or broken recordings in games that utilize loads of GPU resources such as COD Modern Warfare Warzone.

In this blog post, I will show you a trick that allows you to get the best video quality while recording using Shadowplay. No other game capture method (other than a capture card) is able to record gameplay at such a small performance penalty. Shadowplay (or the Nvidia GeForce experience) allows you to record gameplay seamlessly with minimal performance loss (about 1-5%) by utilizing the dedicated NVENC chip available on selected Nvidia graphics cards.

Geforce experience record screen