Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! Now You Can Automatically Capture All Your PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Kills With NVIDIA Highlights

By Andrew Burnes on August 21, 2017 | Featured Stories GeForce Experience NVIDIA Highlights NVIDIA GameWorks Gamescom NVIDIA Ansel ShadowPlay Highlights

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) has taken the gaming community by surprise by becoming one of the best-selling releases of 2017, with over 8 million players in only five months. Recently, PUBG made history when it broke 699,000 concurrent players on Steam, a feat only achieved by two other games.

Every match in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is guaranteed to provide amazing in-game moments, close calls, and heart breaking top 5 deaths. The very best kills, the most amusing losses, and those elusive chicken dinners deserve to be saved and shared with the world, so today at a special NVIDIA event at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, the developers PUBG took to the stage to announce that the world’s most popular multiplayer shooter has been enhanced with NVIDIA Highlights.

This new NVIDIA technology automatically captures your best PUBG moments. So now, when you get kills, die, win a match, or knockout yourself or your enemies, NVIDIA Highlights will automatically save a gameplay clip that you can quickly edit before uploading to your favorite sites and services.

“PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is known for delivering intense, fast-paced action, and for not taking things too seriously,” said C.H. Kim, VP & Executive Producer of Bluehole. “Giving our players the ability to automatically capture that fun and easily share it with friends will increase our presence on social media and introduce PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to even more gamers.”

To celebrate this we are kicking off a contest, where for the next month we’re looking for the best PUBG Highlights - submit your most exciting or amusing NVIDIA Highlights to Youtube or Twitter, tag @PUBATTLEGROUNDS, @NVIDIAGeForce and #ShadowPlayHighlights, and enter for a chance to win a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti or GeForce GTX USB Drive. Get all the details and learn how to enter here.

To activate NVIDIA Highlights in PUBG you’ll need to update to the latest version of PUBG, have GeForce Experience 3.8 or higher, and have a GeForce GTX graphics card.

Launch PUBG, go to the in-game Settings menu, and select “NVIDIA NVIDIA Highlights” under the “Highlights Auto Capture” option:

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds with GeForce Experience's NVIDIA Highlights - Enable the in-game option to activate

Once you start your game in the lobby, GeForce Experience will ask if you want to enable NVIDIA Highlights for PUBG. After you click "Yes" Highlights will automatically be recorded without any further input.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds with GeForce Experience's NVIDIA Highlights - Say 'Yes' to automatically capture your best PUBG moments

If this prompt doesn't appear:

Ensure the GeForce Experience In-Game Overlay is enabled in the Settings menu of GeForce Experience
Ensure Highlights is enabled in GeForce Experience by pressing Alt+Z, then going to Settings > Highlights

You can confirm Highlights is enabled by the presence of the following icon in the bottom right corner of the screen once the match has started:

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds with GeForce Experience's NVIDIA Highlights - Look for the highlighted icon to confirm Highlights is enabled

At the end of the match all your Highlights will be available for you to share. You can select which Highlights to save to your Gallery, or share immediately to Facebook or YouTube.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds with GeForce Experience's NVIDIA Highlights - Review, edit and share after each PUBG match

GeForce Experience also enables you to customize what’s automatically recorded. Files not saved at this time are stored in a temporary folder (%temp%/Highlights). You can adjust this temporary folder size by by opening up GeForce Experience Overlay (Alt+Z) > Settings > Highlights.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds with GeForce Experience's NVIDIA Highlights - Increase the number of Highlights that can be saved by increasing the maximum disk space option in GeForce Experience's settings

As of GeForce Experience 3.13.1, released March 19th 2018, we’ve adjusted the process for changing which actions trigger the saving of NVIDIA Highlights video clips. Previously, you had to exit the game, open GeForce Experience, and follow several other steps. Now, simply press Alt+Z whilst playing the game, click the Settings cog, then click “Highlights”.

From the new screen you can toggle Highlight types on and off, enable or disable Highlights in that specific game, or completely enable or disable Highlights in every supported game:

Go to 'Settings' > 'Highlights' in GeForce Experience's Alt+Z overlay to change NVIDIA Highlights options in any supported game

To get the new 3.13.1 update, and future, newer versions of GeForce Experience, simply open the application and follow the prompts, or manually download and install it via our website.

The new PUBG patch also sees the introduction of HBAO+, the industry’s leading platform-agnostic ambient occlusion technique. With this fidelity-enhancing tech all PUBG players will now see richer, more realistic shadowing where two surfaces or objects meet, and where an object blocks light from reaching another nearby game element. Every building, room, open field and object in Erangel will benefit, with the improvements being immediately evident when you view the interactive comparisons below.