If you went looking for the NVIDIA Highlights toggle and found a 'not supported' message, or a Highlights menu that never does anything, the cause is usually not a broken setting. It is the game.
NVIDIA Highlights is part of the NVIDIA app overlay, and in NVIDIA's own words it automatically saves videos of key moments in compatible games. That word, compatible, carries the whole feature.
Highlights only clips a moment when the developer has built the game to tell NVIDIA that a kill, a round win or a similar event just happened. So the first question is never which setting to change; it is whether your game is on NVIDIA's list.
This guide checks the Highlights list on NVIDIA's official supported games page as of November 12, 2026, walks through turning the feature on for a listed game, and covers what to do when your game is missing. If you play PUBG and want the full in-game walkthrough, see the PUBG NVIDIA Highlights setup guide.
The short answer: listed games use Highlights, everything else needs another tool
Open the Supported Games and Apps page on NVIDIA's website, switch the filter to Highlights, and search for your game.
If it is there and the game's own settings show an NVIDIA Highlights option, enabling the NVIDIA overlay plus the in-game permission is enough for kill moments and similar events to be clipped automatically.
As of November 12, 2026, the list leans heavily toward games that supported Highlights back in the GeForce Experience era: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, Fortnite, War Thunder, Lost Ark, Tekken 7, Mortal Kombat 11 and Battlefield V, for example, for 45 entries in total once regional editions are counted separately.
VALORANT, League of Legends, Counter-Strike 2, Overwatch and FC Online do not appear on it. If your game is not listed, no amount of toggling will make Highlights cut clips for you, so it is faster to switch methods.
Inside the same NVIDIA app you still have Instant Replay, which saves recent gameplay when you press its shortcut; if those saves are failing, work through NVIDIA Instant Replay not working fixes.
If you would rather keep every match and pick the good parts later, an app that starts recording as soon as you launch the game is the better fit.
How to turn on NVIDIA Highlights in a supported game
- 1Update the NVIDIA app and your driverNVIDIA officially released the NVIDIA app on November 12, 2024 carrying over the main features of GeForce Experience, and Highlights now lives in its overlay. Install the latest NVIDIA app and update to the newest Game Ready driver from the Drivers tab.
- 2Turn on the NVIDIA overlayIn the NVIDIA app settings, make sure the NVIDIA overlay toggle is on. With the overlay off, Highlights, Instant Replay and manual recording all stop working.
- 3Allow Highlights inside the gameMany supported games ask whether you want to activate NVIDIA Highlights the first time you launch them. Accept the prompt. If you dismissed it, look for an NVIDIA Highlights option in the game's own settings menu and switch it on.
- 4Check the Highlights section of the overlayOpen the overlay during a match, go to its settings and find the Highlights section to confirm the feature is on and which moment types it saves. Menu names can shift slightly between NVIDIA app versions.
- 5Save clips from the gallery after a matchFinish a real match, then open the overlay gallery or the Highlights summary window, review the clips it cut and save the ones you want to keep. Practice modes rarely produce events, so they are a poor test.
Popular games and the NVIDIA Highlights list (as of November 12, 2026)
| Game | On NVIDIA's official Highlights list? | How DOR saves your moments |
|---|---|---|
| PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS | Listed (as PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS) | Full match recorded automatically, kill, knock and death clips, plus automatic highlight analysis after the match |
| Fortnite | Listed (as Fortnite: Battle Royale) | Full match recorded automatically, kill and death clips |
| VALORANT | Not listed | Full match recorded automatically, kill clips with Ace and Clutch tags |
| League of Legends | Not listed | Full match recorded automatically, kill, multikill and objective clips |
| Counter-Strike 2 | Not listed | Full match recorded automatically, kill, death and assist clips |
| Overwatch | Not listed | Full match recorded automatically, kill and death clips |
| FC Online | Not listed | Full match recorded automatically, goal clips |
Seeing 'not supported'? Check these
- On NVIDIA's official supported games page, switch the filter to Highlights and search for the game. Some regional editions are listed under separate names.
- If the game is not listed, move to Instant Replay or always on recording instead. How games signal these moments is explained in how automatic clip detection works.
- If the game is listed but nothing happens, confirm the NVIDIA overlay is on and your driver is current.
- Make sure the game's own NVIDIA Highlights permission has not been switched off, then restart the game.
- Saved clips go to the folder set under Video Capture in the overlay settings.
Game not on the list? Record the whole match automatically
When your game is not on the Highlights list, the most reliable way to keep a great play is to have recording running before it happens. DOR is a free Windows game recorder: launch a supported game and it detects it and records the whole match, collecting every recording in the app's My Clips.
In seven games, League of Legends, VALORANT, PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, FC Online, Fortnite, Counter-Strike 2 and Overwatch, it also saves moments like kills or goals as automatic highlight clips. In VALORANT, for example, your kills are clipped and tagged with Ace and Clutch labels.
In other supported games you trim the moment you want from the automatically recorded match and save it. On supported NVIDIA graphics cards such as the RTX series, DOR records with NVENC hardware encoding.
See the VALORANT hub for the recording flow in that game, and the NVIDIA ShadowPlay alternative guide for a side by side look at when each tool fits.
