How to record Fortnite on PC

Fortnite gameplay is fast and frenetic and the action can be over in the blink of an eye. If you want to show off or see what happened while you were trying to survive, recording what happens is essential. This tutorial will show you two ways to record Fortnite on PC with Nvidia Shadowplay and Epic’s own playback feature.

Fortnite is a Battle Royale game that has taken the world by storm. Along with PUBG, the game started out as an underdog, but once released became a monumental success that spawned professional teams, an esports league, and entertained many millions of players. The cartoon style and quirky gameplay won’t be for everyone, but it’s one of the most popular games out there right now.

Record Fortnite gameplay with Nvidia Shadowplay Highlights

If you use a recent Nvidia graphics card in your PC and use Nvidia GeForce Experience, you have access to a built-in game recording feature called Nvidia Shadowplay Highlights. You can record any game, but Epic and Nvidia worked together to ensure that Fortnite is definitely one of them.

If you have an Nvidia GTX670 or later, you should be able to use Nvidia Shadowplay Highlights. You will need to have the Nvidia GeForce Experience installed and not just the Nvidia drivers. You need to log in now for some strange reason, but you’ll need it to record your games.

So:

1. Open the Nvidia GeForce experience on your PC.
2. Select Settings and turn on In-Game Overlay in the center panel.
3. Select the Settings box that appears within the In-Game Overlay section.
4. Select Featured and choose a location for your saved files and the amount of disk space you want to allocate to them.
5. Select Games from the right menu of the Nvidia GeForce Experience window.
6. Select Fortnite from the list of games and select Featured at the top right of the window.
7. Select the type of recording you want to make, Victories, Deaths, etc.
8. Select Done and close Nvidia GeForce Experience.

Now that it’s set up, Nvidia Shadowplay Highlights will record all games that match what you specified in Step 7. Go to the save location you set in Step 4 to view them.

Record Fortnite gameplay with Epic’s replay mode

If you don’t use an Nvidia graphics card or don’t want to use Nvidia Shadowplay Highlights, there is another way to record Fortnite on PC. Not long ago, Epic added a replay feature to the game that automatically records your games.

This feature does not store the replay on your PC, it adds a link as a URL to the game server log and allows you to access it. That means you won’t start wasting large amounts of disk space every time you play.

Here’s how to use it:

1. Open Fortnite and access Career.
2. Select Replays and select a match you would like to watch.
3. Select the camera icon at the bottom of the screen to control playback.

There are a ton of tools inside the camera icon that control playback speed, camera view, angle, and all sorts of good stuff. There are also some amazing options like focal length, aperture, focus and all kinds of tools. These were apparently imported from another Epic game, Paragon, and are still in development.

The advantage of replay mode is that all of this is stored on Epic’s servers, so there is no additional cost to you. Replays are recorded automatically, so you literally don’t have to do anything. The downside is that videos are deleted as you create new ones, and you’ll need a third-party tool to save and upload them to YouTube.

Epic said they are working on download tools but for now you will have to use them. obs or other screen recording tools to save them. Of course, if you have OBS anyway, you can also use it to record gameplay if you plan to upload it.

There are other ways to record Fortnite on PC, but these two are pretty simple. If you have an Nvidia card and are using GeForce Experience, you already have the tools to record gameplay. If you have OBS for Twitch or another screen recorder, you can do the same with Fortnite’s built-in tools. Just remember, if something epic happened, you need to record it quickly before the server overwrites it!

Frequent questions

Can I stream Fortnite live on Twitch?

Absolutely! Twitch is a great platform for gamers who want to live stream their current gameplay or upload videos to watch after the match is over. You will need a Twitch account, Download OBS Studioand of course, Fortnite.

Open Twitch and go to your Control Panel. Click “Channel” in the left side menu and then click “Streaming Key” at the top center of the page. Then, head to OBS Studio and go to “Screenshot” to set up your game. Go back to Twitch and start your live stream.

Even with a brief glance at YouTube, it appears that thousands of you are already recording Fortnite on PC or console. How do you do it? Do you use any of these methods or something else? Tell us about it below!