To do this we go to our application store either Play Store, Galaxy Store or any other that we use on our Nvidia Shield and search for “screen recorder”, we must bear in mind that any free application that we download will contain advertising, and we must not download any application that ask us for excessive permissions such as access to Bluetooth, contacts or the camera. Your Nvidia Shield do not have Google Play or another apps store?Ĭheck the following article to learn how to install applications without Google Play from alternative stores and how to install Google Play if your Shield does not have it incorporated Google Play alternatives. In the event that the screen recording icon is not available and that simultaneously pressing the volume up and power buttons on the Nvidia Shield does not start the video recording, we will have to download an application from the application store to perform this action. install_ubuntu.If the Nvidia Shield does not have the option to record screen The screen recorder also has a so called 'replay buffer', which allows you to press a key to save the last few seconds instead of recording all the time, just like nvidia shadowplay.Įdit: I created an install script for gpu-screen-recorder for ubuntu based distros called install_ubuntu.sh. If you are on arch then the software is available in aur. Here are some demos of the screen recorder in action: With my screen recorder the fps stays at 30 (fps is locked to 30 fps in the game). My screen recorder does not require a gpu with nvfbc support either.Īs a performance comparison, playing breath of the wild with the cemu emulator at 4k and using obs makes the fps drop from 30 to 7 with my hardware. So I made my own screen recorder instead that records the screen 100% on the gpu and to my knowledge its the only such tool available for nvidia gpus on linux and its much faster than any other screen recorder to my knowledge.

Neither obs with nvenc nor the obs-nvfbc plugin record the screen fully with the gpu. When I switched to linux I was missing a fully hardware accelerated screen recorder such as nvidia shadowplay which allows you to record games with barely losing any fps, without having to use a capture card.

Nvidia game recorder