NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience is packed with useful features for NVIDIA GPU users.

Here are the features you should be using.

Use GeForce Experience’s ShadowPlay For Instant Replay

Gaming is a pretty fast-paced hobby.

Click "Instant Replay," then click "Turn On."

Great moments can happen in the blink of an eye, even in leisurely games.

Press Alt+Z, click “Instant Replay,” then click “Turn On” to enable Instant Replay.

you’re free to also press Alt+Shift+F10 to enable it instead.

Adjust the slider to change your instant replay duration.

After Instant Replay has been enabled, tap Alt+F10 to save the last 5 minutes of gameplay.

Press Alt+F9 to enable recording.

Press Alt+Z, then click Record > prefs to tweak the audio and video prefs for your recording.

The recording indicators after you press Alt+F9.

Recording and Instant Replay use the same video and audio quality configs.

You cannot change those tweaks while Instant Replay is enabled.

GeForce Experience can take screenshots in any program you have installed on your PC.

You can adjust the video and audio quality of your recording.

Taking screenshots with GeForce Experience isn’t a game changer, but it is an extremely welcome convenience.

By default, screenshots are saved to the Videos folder, with a sub-folder named for the specific game.

Open GeForce Experience, then go to the “Drivers” tab.

Press Alt+Z, then click "Screenshot" to take a screenshot.

It may not be the splashiest feature, but it is extremely useful.

Graphics drivers typically contain bug fixes and optimizations that’ll improve your gaming performance.

it’s possible for you to alwaysdownload NVIDIA drivers manually, if you prefer to handle it yourself.

The "Videos" folder open in File Explorer.

NVIDIA has put special effort into determining whichsettings are optimalfor each program.

Just open GeForce Experience, and then choose the game you want to optimize.

Click “Optimize” to apply the suggested options.

Click "Drivers," then click "Check for Updates" or "Download."

The game’s configs will be changed the next time you launch it.

Press Alt+F2 while you’re playing a game, then adjust the tweaks to your liking.

If nothing happens, the game probably doesn’t support Ansel — many don’t.

The games installed on the example system.

Your Ansel screenshots (or photospheres) will be saved to the Videos folder, just like regular screenshots.

GeForce Experience also allows you to apply various filters to your game.

Find an environment too dreary?

Click "Optimize" to use NVIDIA’s recommended settings.

Apply a warming filter!

Want a black and white filter?

Tap Alt+F3 to pop fire up filter menu, then apply whichever filters you’d like.

The Ansel screenshot control panel.

Press Alt+Z, then click “Performance.”

Basic or advanced are the best options if you’re trying to diagnose a problem.

This is the Advanced Performance overlay with no games running.

The filter control panel.

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Press Alt+Z, then poke the gear icon.

Click “Keyboard Shortcuts.”

Click "Performance" to view your system’s resource usage information.

you could change any of the hotkeys to something you like better.

Just be mindful that you avoidessential Windows shortcutsand common shortcuts in games.

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The current load on your GPU and CPU.

Click a quadrent to move the performance overlay, and select what variant of the overlay you want displayed.

The advanced overlay displayed on the desktop.

Click "Keyboard Shortcuts."

Change your shortcuts however you’d like, but avoid choosing shortcuts that conflict with existing Windows shortcuts.