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    Nvidia ShadowPlay lags Startup

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by HTWingNut, Jul 19, 2015.

  1. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    Not sure where to post this, but considering this is really a gaming app thought I'd post it here.

    After I activate ShadowPlay, Windows hangs any system processes for about 90 seconds on boot up. I can load web pages and such, but I can't bring up task manager or anything like that for a good 90 seconds or so. I realized once I completely uninstalled Nvidia drivers the issue went away. Then I installed Nvidia drivers again and all was fine. Then I activated ShadowPlay and whether I turn it on or off, on boot up of Windows 8.1 it hangs things for 90 seconds or so.

    Any ideas?
     
    HTWingNut, Jul 19, 2015
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    Is this a ShadowPlay problem or GFE problem? Because GFE in itself is quite bloated and increases boot time and system resource consumption.
     
    octiceps, Jul 19, 2015
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    I just did another clean install, and now all is good. I had another few anomolies and figured since my install was fairly fresh to begin with, that it would be less time to do a clean install than figure all this crap out.

    But yeah, I ended up uninstalling GFE and it stopped having the problem. But with a clean Windows install it's working fine now with GFE and ShadowPlay enabled.

    EDIT: I spoke too soon. It's doing it again. It may be a conflict between my Logitech G930 and GFE. Because as soon as I installed my Logitech G930 drivers it happened. But if I just uninstall the G930 drivers the issues persists. It's only by uninstalling GFE that remedies it. Grrr.
     
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    HTWingNut, Jul 19, 2015
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    D2 Ultima Livestreaming Master

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    I don't know why Shadowplay triggered it for you, but windows can "break" on startup and things can freeze, It's USUALLY a bad windows install, or that something was screwed up in the install process, or some random thing. But clean installs do fix it. I have only ever seen it happen with Windows 8.1; so I couldn't tell you about it with regular Windows 8 or Windows 7 or anything. I've had it happen in the past when my system crashed a few times, and that was before Shadowplay was even available for us mobile users. Something just got screwed with windows and it would do that kind of crap
     
    D2 Ultima, Jul 19, 2015
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    Cakefish ¯\_(?)_/¯

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    I had the exact same issue when setting up this replacement laptop (though mine hung for only about 30 seconds, I guess because I have a faster SSD as OS drive).

    Solved it by disabling NVIDIA Streamer Service in Services. Hasn't come back since. Simple solution :)
     
    Cakefish, Jul 19, 2015
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    i had the same problem its because of GFE last version just uninstall GFE 2.4.5.60 and install the 2.4.5.57 that come with the 353.49 driver you will be fine and dont launch it with the launcher or it will just update again
     
    encor50, Jul 19, 2015
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    HTWingNut, Jul 19, 2015
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  8. thegh0sts

    thegh0sts Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    might need to do that if i want to do some in-game recording cos it shouldn't affect it.
     
    thegh0sts, Jul 19, 2015
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