X-Box Game Bar Video Recorder vs. nVidia Experience Video Recorder

Not sure where to post these links, as similar ones seem to be scattered around somewhat. Hopefully a moderator can redirect it, if necessary.

At any rate, I recently conducted a kind of “side-by-side” test of the two most common video recorders and promised in another thread to post links to the results on Google Drive.

Conclusion:
The nVidia recorder is much smoother and less jittery. The downside is that its file size is almost 5 times that of the X-Box recorder!

Hope this is helpful!

X-Box video recorder:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12vbLYfhqQjmQ0CWUej6tb4hcJ0fH2Ikn/view?usp=sharing

nVidia Experience video recorder:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_FEWaVK9HwpoH9MbkeD7nTISBemmMSRY/view?usp=sharing

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I haven’t yet seen a recorder than can keep up with in-game FPS. They seem a few steps behind, always.

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Having watched several MSFS add-on reviews on YouTube, I have to agree with you. Although, I kind of wrote those off to the unique set-ups that the content creators were using.

You can change the bitrate for the video encoding in the settings if it’s too low or high for your taste. :slight_smile:

Personally I set it at 50 or 60 Mbps for 3440x1440 60fps 10-bit HDR, then downsample and compress from there if I want to post something online. Remember that it’s using real-time hardware compression, which produces a larger bitrate per size/quality than CPU compression batch jobs can do.

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Man! That’s a lot for me to wrap my little brain around. I’m very new to this video recording stuff and you refer to concepts entirely new to me.

What you asked me to “remember”, I never knew in the first place!!
:rofl:

I do appreciate your advice and will definitely refer to it in the future!

Quick question:
Is the Geforce recorder capable of what you are recommending?

Yes, I use the nvidia/geforce one. If you’re in an HDR mode it records HDR (compressed as HEVC codec) otherwise it records regular (compressed as AVC/H.264 which is much more common). :smiley:

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