AMD Gaming Evolved Takes on ShadowPlay with Game DVR

NVIDIA and AMD have been duking it out in the game-optimization ring with their respective apps; GeForce Experience for NVIDIA and Gaming Evolved by Raptr for AMD.

NVIDIA has been leading the way for much of the fight though and with the introduction of ShadowPlay, a game footage capture tool that lets you record footage straight off the game with minimal hit to the framerates much like FRAPS without the CPU overhead. NVIDIA had a one-of-a-kind feature though and that’s ShadowMode: the ability to record non-stop, and recording only a pre-determined amount of time that has passed.

AMD is now announcing its own version of this feature called Game DVR. Game DVR, similar to ShadowPlay, leverages hardware-accelerated encoding for minimal performance impact. Game DVR also automatically records up to 10 minutes of gameplay with recorded footages arranged in galleries for you to view… something that ShadowPlay does not have.

AMD Gaming Evolved is available for download here. Read  our impression on AMD Gaming Evolved for more info.

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If you’ve already heard about the Game DVR beta, apologies in advance — but we’re kind of excited about this and want to make sure everybody knows. We’ve added the most requested feature to AMD Gaming Evolved: continuous gameplay recording so you never miss a highlight, as well as manual start/stop recording!

Our gameplay capture takes advantage of hardware-accelerated encoding via AMD’s Video Codec Engine (VCE), which means you’ll see virtually no performance impact while recording. Based on independent benchmarking performed by AnandTech.com, the difference in frames-per-second with Game DVR on versus off was “consistently less than 3%.”

Our redesigned client UI makes it super easy to set up, too. From the Home tab in the client Control Center, simply click Record to turn on Game DVR. With our Replay capability, we automatically capture your last 15 seconds of gameplay time (by default — you can bump that all the way up to 10 minutes), then save a clip when you hit Ctrl + /. And with Record, use Ctrl + ; to start and stop gameplay capture at any time. You can then use the Gallery to upload clips directly to YouTube.

Restart your AMD Gaming Evolved client to update to the latest version, or new users can download it here.

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