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ShadowPlay by Nvidia has been considered as one among the best applications for recording and broadcasting gameplay. Using ShadowPlay, you can capture priceless in-game moments and share them with your friends instantly. However, with the new GeForce Experience, there has been a complete overhaul of the application. The then ShadowPlay is now referred as, Nvidia Share, and here’s how to use it.

What Is Nvidia Share?

Previously, known as ShadowPlay, Nvidia Share is its spiritual successor, exhibiting a new and intuitive user interface (UI) with more dynamic features. It showcases the very same basic concept of ShadowPlay but with a faster, eye-catchy and efficient approach for streaming/recording. It serves as one among the core utilities of GeForce Experience which has become the central manager for GPU software at NVIDIA. It makes sure that drivers are updated, and that games run with the best settings.

In one of our previous tutorials, we explained how to use GeForce Experience to stream on Twitch and various social media platforms. This tutorial solely focuses on how to use it for recording, and related basic purposes.

What Are The Requirements For The New ShadowPlay?

To use Nvidia Share, your card should be a GeForce 600 series or higher, bearing the ‘GTX’ trademark. Make sure your GeForce Experience is up-to-date (if already installed, just update it from the app). You may refer the official site for the list of supported cards.

How To Record Gameplay Using NVIDIA Share?

1. Launch the game you want to record. Minimize it.
2. Access GeForce Experience.  Make sure that ‘Sharing’ is enabled. In order to that, click the ‘Settings’ button in the upper right corner. In the ‘General’ section you shall easily find the ‘Share’ toggle status. Set it ‘on’.
3. After doing so, click on the triangulated ‘Share’ button, located in the upper right corner. You shall find the interface as shown below.

Note:  Conversely, you can also launch the game from the application itself.

4. Before you start, you might need to modify the quality of your recording. Click on ‘Record’ followed by ‘Customize’, as shown above. You shall now be able to customize the resolution, FPS, and bitrate as per your requirements. Click ‘Save’ to finalize your record quality settings.
5. After successfully doing so, you can start recording your gameplay. Click Record>Start to initiate the process. If you are recording for the first time, you might get a popup asking you to turn on the privacy control. This is merely a setting to enable desktop capture. Click ‘Yes’ to continue. You shall get a notification that the process has initiated.
6. You shall see an icon, located in the bottom right of the screen, acting as the record status indicator. If the status is green it indicates that your gameplay is being recorded. Left to it shall be a mic icon, indicating that the device is being used, if you have enabled the use of the microphone. Head back to the game and record your necessary footage.
7. To stop and save the recording, press the hotkey, ‘Alt+F9’. To toggle back the recording status, press the hotkey again. This will only work if GeForce Experience is running in the background.
8. To access your recorded gameplay, you need to visit ‘C:UsersUsernameVideos’, which happens to be the default location for storage of recorded media.
9. To change the storage location head over to settings, on the Nvidia Share overlay. Navigate to ‘Recordings’. Provide your desired storage location, and hence you are done.

How To Upload Recorded Gameplay Directly?

If you don’t want to manually upload your recorded footage, then be happy, as Nvidia Share allows you to directly upload the recorded video from the ‘Share Overlay’ itself. Click on ‘Recording’ while the process is active. You shall see an additional option named, ‘Upload’. Hit it to share your gameplay on various social media platforms. You just need your account to be synced with Nvidia Share. You may further modify the footage length as per your needs, before uploading.

What Is Instant Replay?

The Instant Replay feature lets you automatically record up to last 20 mins of your gameplay, and save it on your disk. You don’t have to manually press the hotkeys twice to toggle the recording on/off.  You can turn it ‘on’ from the Share Overlay, or by simply pressing ‘Alt+F10’, while in-game. You can even customize the record timing, as per your wish. To do so, access the ‘Share Overlay’. Click on ‘Instant Replay’ followed by ‘Customize’. You can set the record time dynamically within 20 minutes. You may also customize the quality of the recording by adjusting the bit-rate and the resolution.

How To Take Screenshots?

To take screenshots, you just need to press ‘Alt+F1’, while in-game. You can also take desktop screenshots if the GeForce application is running. To access the screenshots and recorded media, you need to hit ‘Gallery’ on the ‘Share Overlay’.

A screenshot that we took using Nvidia Share

How To Configure The Microphone?

To enable capturing your voice simultaneously, while recording gameplay, you need to enable the mic feature by accessing the Share overlay.  By default, it’s on if your mic is plugged into the respective jack.

You can set it to ‘Push-to-talk’, ‘Always on’ or ‘Off’, as per your requirements. While in ‘Push-to-talk mode’, you need to hit ‘ ` ‘ to record your voice as well, while capturing gameplay.

To adjust the mic volume and boost, you can select customize after clicking the mic icon, on the overlay.

How To Configure The Hotkeys?

To configure the hotkeys, navigate to Settings->Keyboard Shortcuts. You can change all the key-bindings as per your requirements.

How To Display The FPS Counter?

The FPS Counter lets you know the number of frames used in each and every instance of the gameplay. To enable it, head to Settings->HUD Layout. The Heads-Up-Display (HUD) provides necessary visual information which highlights your status, while playing a game or using an application. It can be set to display at any corner of the screen. Select the one you would prefer.

You may further customize the HUD layout if you want to show the number of viewers watching your live stream. The streaming/recording status indicator can also be turned ‘on’ or ‘off’.  You can also include the ‘Cam Feed’ in your recordings. The video below elucidates the process in a few simple steps.

How Does The New Shadowplay Affect Gaming Performance?

The all-new GeForce experience has been heavily optimized to deliver flawless performance while gaming. As per the claims of Nvidia, using the Share feature you can flawlessly record/stream on 4K @60 FPS and can expect up to a 10% performance loss. 

Do you have any further queries on how to use Shadowplay? Then let us know in the comments section below.

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Pokemon Go took the world by storm when it came out last year. The game’s health benefits were touted as well since it got players up on their feet and rewarded them for venturing out to hunt for the little monsters. However, if a new study published in the British Medical Journal is believed, the health benefits of Pokemon Go were shortlived.

The study published in the British Medical Journal found that the popular augmented reality game only had a temporary impact on the health and fitness levels of players.

This study was conducted during a period of six weeks after the game was released in July last year. It covered 1,000 individuals aged between 18 and 35 who played the game religiously after its release.

The results show that the game initially helped players increase their physical activity level dramatically, however, after a couple of weeks had passed, the players were back to the fitness level they were at when they started playing the game.

“So yes, it worked for the first week, but then after a month and a half, people were not walking more or moving more,” explains Jean-Philippe Chaput, a research scientist at the Hospital of Eastern Ontario.

Chaput isn’t surprised that Pokemon Go didn’t leave a lasting impact on the players’ health so maybe take those health claims attached to playing this game with a grain of salt.

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Just how do you take some old play—W. Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the Tony (Antonius) Award winner from 1599, for instance—and give it gut-wrenching relevance in Central Park circa today? Oskar Eustis goes for the jugular by surrounding his small-handed Caesar with thugs, handlers, and a trophy wife with an Eastern European accent. Obvious, perhaps, but instantly effective; what we get is a gripping tale of power-lust, murder and anarchy in the Capitol. Two-thirds of which might seem awfully familiar to those who read the morning papers (a.k.a. the “fake” morning papers).

The immediate result is that these olden characters from ancient Rome—Brutus, Cassius, Antony et al—seem to be of our time, speaking directly to us. None of this clambering about in togas; everybody is contemporary, with the members of the mob (commoners, as Shakespeare called them) indistinguishable from the members of the free admission Public audience.

Eustis—the Public Theater artistic director, as well as stage director of this production—heightens the effect by building the production on contemporary performances from strong stage performers. Corey Stoll—of the Public’s recent Plenty, and widely familiar for his performance as disgraced congressman Peter Russo in the first season of “House of Cards”—makes a noble and conflicted Brutus. John Douglas Thompson, a Tony-nominee for January’s Jitney, commands the stage as Cassius, while Teagle F. Bougere adds power as Casca. Most arresting of the group is Elizabeth Marvel as Marc Antony (here played and referred to as a woman, which doesn’t quite make sense in context.) Even so, Marvel—who has five Public Theater credits, and is a cable celebrity thanks to her role as President-elect Elizabeth Keane in last season’s “Homeland”—brings rabble-rousing power to the role.

The relatively unknown Gregg Henry makes a strong impression as the buffoonish president. That is, as Mr. Caesar, until he gets fileted in the Senate. (He is actually stripped naked at one point—in a rather humorous and fitting Emperor’s New Clothes tableaux—and one can only imagine he must get awfully cold up there some nights.) Tina Benko gets laughs as the model-spouse, Calpurnia, while Nikki M. James (of The Book of Mormon) offers support as Portia, wife to Brutus.

Eustis peoples the vast Delacorte stage—designed by David Rockwell as if ancient Rome was located midway between DC and Occupy Wall Street—with a veritable mob. While the cast lists twenty-six players, an informal count suggests that there are enough extras around to swell the number close to fifty.

The notion of a modern-themed Julius Caesar is not novel, exactly; Orson Welles set Broadway spinning with his Mussolini-flavored performance in the 1937 anti-fascist, Mercury Theatre production. The current Trumpian version is attention getting, certainly, and enhances the drama. The real-to-life links go astray, methinks, once the title character meets his fate on the Ides of March and cedes the spotlight for most of the rest of the evening. But when Cassius asks, “How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown?” we can only answer that we know one such age all too well.

Familiar Shakespearean quotes abound in Julius Caesar, and Mr. Eustis pointedly mentions—in his program notes—that “we didn’t write any new lines, it’s all Shakespeare.” Although there is indeed a joke (?) about Caesar getting away with it if he stabbed his mother on Fifth Avenue. Which doesn’t quite sound like the authentical Bard, but we do seem to have heard something of the sort elsewhere. Maybe it’s from Christopher Marlowe?

The Public Theater production of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar opened May 23, 2017 and continues through June 18 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park

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Ivanka Trump, daughter and adviser to President Donald Trump, incorrectly named Judaism as one of the three largest world religions Monday while recalling the president’s recent overseas trip.

The father and daughter, along with several other members of their family and of the administration, met with religious leaders of Islam, Judaism and Christianity in Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican last month during a weeklong excursion abroad.

“To have covered the three largest world religions over the course of four days, it was deeply meaningful,” Trump said during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” Monday.

Trump ― who converted to Judaism before marrying her husband, Jared Kushner, an Orthodox Jew, in 2009 ― erased the followers of several major religions in her statement.

Christianity and Islam are indeed the two largest world religions with nearly 4 billion followers combined. But with roughly 14 million followers, Judaism trails way behind Hinduism (over 1 billion followers), Buddhism (nearly 500 million followers) and other faiths such as Taoism, Shintoism and Sikhism.

“It was beyond special,” Trump said Monday about the trip. “For each of these moments, it’s hard to find the words to adequately describe them.”

Or accurately, for that matter.

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After only a week of filming, ABC has decided to suspend production of “Bachelor in Paradise” Season 4 in Sayulita, Mexico, as the company investigates “allegations of misconduct.” 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. released a statement on the incident, saying:

We have become aware of allegations of misconduct on the set of “Bachelor in Paradise” in Mexico. We have suspended production and we are conducting a thorough investigation of these allegations. Once the investigation is complete, we will take appropriate responsive action.

The show, which brings together contestants from previous seasons of “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” to provide them with another shot at finding love, was slated for an Aug. 8 premiere. Now, it seems the series might not air at all.

TMZ reports that the situation allegedly involved contestants DeMario Jackson and Corinne Olympios, who were both well-known personalities from their respective appearances in the “Bachelor” franchise. The two were reportedly involved in some inappropriate, sexual activities in a swimming pool, according to sources who spoke with Jackson and TMZ. Still, there are varying accounts of what actually happened, which is why Warner Bros. launched a full investigation into the situation and sent the rest of the cast back to the U.S. 

Reality Steve (Steve Carbone), a blogger known for his “Bachelor” spoilers, posted a photo of the cast at the Puerto Vallarta airport on Sunday, writing on Twitter that they were apparently being flown to Houston. Jackson and Olympios are not pictured in the group photo. 

The new season was set to feature Bachelor Nation favorites, including Raven Gates, Amanda Stanton, Alexis Waters, Taylor Nolan, Robby Hayes, Ben Zorn, Jasmine Goode, Vinny Ventiera and Alex Woytkiw.

HuffPost has reached out to ABC, as well as Jackson and Olympios, for an update on the suspension and situation.

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