For what it's worth, I thought I would report a recent experience I had with shadowplay not working, what the cause was in my particular case, and how I overcame it,
It took me about a month of back and forth interaction with NVidia Support in which I provided a humongous amount of testing data before I stumbled upon the solution. When I identified what the cause of the problem was, NVidia support stated that it was a known issue. They did not indicate that a fix was being entertained.
For a known issue, I felt that there was little info available from them to bring it to the attention of the general public. I felt that at least the first level of support would have been helpful for "Known Issues".
In summary, If you are running Windows 7 and utilizing "Windows 7 Basic" theme for your screen display, you will not be able to get shadowplay to work.
If you switch to "Windows 7 AERO" theme, shadowplay will work fine.
My recommendation is to stay away from "Windows 7 Basic" theme
There are of course a slew of other situations that can cause shadowplay to not work but that is another issue and one I certainly don't want to enter into.
Best Regards
Last edited by Robert_Wiggins; 03/31/21 11:17 PM.