That said, in this case I didn't check if shadowplay was working after updating Widows files, which I also did. I've noticed that Windows updates and Geforce Experience/Shadowplay don't always play nice with each other. I'm running win 8.1 64bit, on a laptop with a GTX 980m and all the current windows updates. Now, I have Shadowplay functionality back. I searched the Nvidia website for the previous driver, 411.70, downloaded, ran it from the download directory, chose 'custome install', selected a 'clean install', it installed itself successfully. That said, yesterday I 'upgraded' to the newest Nvidia driver 416.34 and lost Shadowplay functionality. It seems Nvidia likes to break the shadowplay functionality randomly. GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (Msi, Gaming Trio)ġ0/28/18. GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (Asus, Strix) I'll keep updating this list until a way to fix this has been found. If you have any suggestions, I'm open for trying them out. If you have found a solution, please share it with everyone else. Installing Windows 7/8 (not going to try).Changing microphone from Always on to Push-to-talk.Changing status indicator/fps/camera location and size.Install older version of GeForce Experience.More Possible solutions, but very unlikely to fix it If you have RTSS, set its global application level to none.Use DDU to uninstall your graphics drivers.Using the clean install option, when updating Drivers in GeForce Experience.Creating a second windows user account with admin rights.Installing windows 10 media pack N and NK.(Task manager > More details > Services tab > search for NvContainerLocalSystem > Right click > Restart.) Restart the Nvidia streamer service via 'Services'.(You might want to do this after each following step!) (Having them on windowed fullscreen or windowed might cause the problem!) Make sure your games are on fullscreen.Make sure you have enough free space on your disk.Make sure you have the requirements for Shadowplay.Trying these out, from top to bottom of the list is the best way to go! Here are ways I tried to fix this, they haven't worked for me but might work for you. I've collected all the possible ways to fix this I could find on the internet, so looking from somewhere else will probably lead to the same tricks scattered across threads and websites. Re-installing the driver should fix it (update )(GeForce version 3.20.3.63)

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