# Shadowplay compatibility

**URL:** <https://battlefieldforum.co/t/shadowplay-compatibility/110256>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [November 24, 2013, 9:48am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/shadowplay-compatibility/110256 "2013-11-24T09:48:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Vtakyo](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Vtakyo](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Vtakyo)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 9:48am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/shadowplay-compatibility/110256/1 "2013-11-24T09:48:15Z")

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Just as a warning, I have experienced a debilitating game experience while recording using Nvidia’s Shadowplay. I’ve come across a crash that support has been unable to identify themselves, but I have concluded that shadowplay has caused my game to crash 5-10 minutes into each game I play. When I am not using shadowplay to record I can play perfectly fine, but as soon as I start recording it starts freezing on a black screen with no error message.

Just wanted to let everyone know who is using this service, and if they have a fix please let me know, much appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Joevual](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@Joevual](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Joevual)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 10:32am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/shadowplay-compatibility/110256/2 "2013-11-24T10:32:01Z")

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Are you saving the recording to an external drive?

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**Author:** ![Vtakyo](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Vtakyo](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Vtakyo)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 10:54am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/shadowplay-compatibility/110256/3 "2013-11-24T10:54:28Z")

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Negative, its saving to my video folder.

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**Author:** ![Joevual](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@Joevual](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Joevual)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/shadowplay-compatibility/110256/4 "2013-11-24T18:11:56Z")

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That may be putting stress on your system. I don’t know what your setup is like, but writing to the same drive that you’re running your game off of could create issues. When I record with my Elgato I run the capture software from another computer, and record to a large, mostly empty, external drive.

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**Author:** ![Vtakyo](https://battlefieldforum.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Vtakyo](https://battlefieldforum.co/u/Vtakyo)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://battlefieldforum.co/t/shadowplay-compatibility/110256/5 "2013-11-25T02:28:40Z")

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Ok, i’ll go ahead and give an external drive a try.