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17 September 2019

Fix Nvidia Shadowplay Not Recording or Will Not Turn On (Windows 7)

Shadowplay has been the best recording software for me compared to others. Instant Replay feature is what I like the most about it as I want to record and save great highlights of my gameplay at unexpected moments without having to record everything from the start and filling the hard drive space.

Several ways to fix this problem are as follows:

Restarting NVIDIA Share or IN-GAME OVERLAY


Open Geforce Experience and go to setting by clicking the gear button at top right side. Simply turning off and on In-game Overlay could fix the problem.


To restart NVIDIA Share, open task manager and go to processes tab. Find NVIDIA Share and click end process.




Turn On Desktop Composition on Windows 7


In start, right click on Computer and select properties. Click on Advance system settings on the left side of the window. In Advance tab, open Settings and make sure Enable desktop composition box is checked.

Check also if the display is running the highest desktop color depth 32-bit, or else desktop composition will not show up in this window.


After enabling desktop composition make sure to restart In-Game Overlay or restart the computer.


Reinstall Geforce Experience


There could have been corrupted files during the installation of Geforce Experience that was bundled with the nvidia graphic driver, which has caused the same problem in the past.