Turning off background recording (Instant Replay) for FPS
Also searched as: instant replay fps · shadowplay fps · background recording fps · disable game capture fps · nvidia replay fps
What it does
Switching off always-on background capture — NVIDIA Instant Replay / Shadowplay, AMD's equivalent, or Game Bar's background recording — to free up performance.
The honest verdict
Graded real. This one is real, but small and honest. Background recording constantly encodes your gameplay using the GPU's built-in video encoder, and that work is not free — it is typically a low single-digit percentage of your frames on a modern card, more on an older or already-maxed-out GPU, or at a high capture resolution and bitrate. …
Where it genuinely fits a rig, Compy can recommend it — applied with a snapshot first and a one-click rollback after, like every change it makes.
The full graded entry
The rest of this write-up — the specifics behind the grade — ships inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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