Question / Help AverMedia Live Gamer HD - Time To Decide Once and For All

[Grumbul]

So I've posted here, I've posted on numerous forums and I've seen a few semi-coherent responses to the age old problems with the AverMedia Live Gamer HD.

The Problem: No-one but a select few folks seem to care and/or acknowledge that this card's driver support is borked. The latest drivers essentially locked 720p capture at 30fps. Hardly anyone even noticed. A few here mentioned it, a few elsewhere acknowledged it. I spent weeks troubleshooting as did a few others and the only solution was to roll back to ancient drivers. The problem? We still have intermittent (but VERY regular) fps capture locks at sub-60fps. This is evident on OBS preview and on stream.

The Question: Is anyone actually going to query whether this is an OBS/AVHDLive combo issue? Well I am, Anyone here got a fix? Notice it?

The Solution: The ONLY (potentially) abundantly available capture card priced competitively and supported in Europe that is a PCI-E option is the recently (this week) announced Elgato HD60 Pro. If we opt for it, if we fork out the cash for it, are we going to find out this is an OBS issue and we are still borked?

If anyone out there has something to say on this that is constructive and can help those of us working with dedicated stream rigs please post up. This is a REAL problem that too few people are acknowledging.

 

[brianfarts]

would be very interested in this as well. I got the card this week and ran into some trouble as I described here https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/cant-get-stable-60fps-with-c985.36595/

selecting baseline as I said in my last post actually didn't do the trick but setting the card to 59.94 fps and OBS MP to stream at 59.94 made it somewhat whatchable, there's still noticable stutter though.

sorry to hijack like this but you mentioned rolling back the driver, any version you can recommend, links for me to follow up on or any other suggestions?

I still have a little over 3 weeks to get a refund from amazon, the elgato game capture hd 60 pro seems like a decent alternative but I guess it'll have to go through directshow and I don't know how much I would trust that given my recent experience with both the C985 and the AverMedia Live Gamer Extreme. I should mention that I also borrowed a Game Capture HD from a friend once and that thing was just terrible so I really don't know what to make of Elgato either.