

No super-popular streamers use ShadowPlay, because, while it gets a live video of your screen onto twitch, that’s about all - no special effects or fancy animations. The sacrifice here is with utility, especially for streaming. My System is Win7 too, I didnt get much help from the team, but this might help: 1. It doesn’t offer nearly as much customizability as OBS, but it will stream and record with literally no impact on your game whatsoever (it’s kind of magical). So, there isnt another way : ( ecxept running Steam as Admin. GeForce Share (used to be ShadowPlay) is the sleek, performance-oriented, minimal option. This comes at the sacrifice of often less-than-ideal performance on low- and mid-tier PC’s and not the most accessible interface (no in-game recording status overlay, etc.) It provides the most customizability, both in the scenes and in the back-end (codecs, bitrate, audio channels, etc.) lets you stream and record, and can do pretty much everything a streamer/letsplayer could want. OBS is the “jack of all trades, master of none”.

Everyone goes through the phase where they’re searching and searching for alternatives, downloading alternative codecs for Dxtory and finding things like Mirillis Action, but, at the end of the day, you want to use one of those three. Action is a great screen recorder because its numerous features all aimed at ensuring you can record whatevers happening on your screen easily and quickly.

OBS and GeForce Share (ShadowPlay) are the best recording applications.
