Okay so I've spent the last couple days trying to search for options that may be able to help me configure my HD60 Pro card into both OBS and OBS Studio. I'd produced one result that isn't really ideal considering part of the reason I bought the card to begin with.
What I ended up with is having to download a special driver so that the "Elgato Helper Device (unavailable)" option of the video capture devices would now be able to easily be recognized instead as a #01 because the driver that I downloaded is actually intended for multiple HD60 Pro cards I guess. This, while worked, caused an insane amount of audio delay which really is not what I'm looking for with a card like this. I wanted to make streaming easy, not go through the delay issues again.
My REAL issue here is honestly with the inability to use the "Elgato Game Capture HD" video capture device. If I use it in either OBS software, the capture itself displays only a few frames of the game and instantly forever freezes. It doesn't progress or do anything. If I remove that source or try to change the capture device to something else, OBS freezes and forces me to close out of it. I know that my capture card works fine because there were no issues with the Elgato software itself.
Tl;dr: Elgato Game Capture HD video capture device option freezes the video and then freezes/crashes OBS instantly if you try to remove or change the device being used of that source in any way.
I would include a log file, but my settings currently aren't consistent due to the changes I've made and all the uninstall and reinstall things I've done including completely clearing all of settings intentionally while uninstalling OBS. If there are any tips or anything that I might be able to do to figure out why I seem to be the only one that has this issue, that'd be amazing. I'm going to see if Xsplit maybe has this issue as well as I'm not sure if it's only an issue with OBS currently or if it seems to be something to do with the Elgato software in itself.
A few notes:
I'm using Windows 7 Pro, I received the HD60 Pro on Friday, and I was previously using the Game Capture HD.
What I ended up with is having to download a special driver so that the "Elgato Helper Device (unavailable)" option of the video capture devices would now be able to easily be recognized instead as a #01 because the driver that I downloaded is actually intended for multiple HD60 Pro cards I guess. This, while worked, caused an insane amount of audio delay which really is not what I'm looking for with a card like this. I wanted to make streaming easy, not go through the delay issues again.
My REAL issue here is honestly with the inability to use the "Elgato Game Capture HD" video capture device. If I use it in either OBS software, the capture itself displays only a few frames of the game and instantly forever freezes. It doesn't progress or do anything. If I remove that source or try to change the capture device to something else, OBS freezes and forces me to close out of it. I know that my capture card works fine because there were no issues with the Elgato software itself.
Tl;dr: Elgato Game Capture HD video capture device option freezes the video and then freezes/crashes OBS instantly if you try to remove or change the device being used of that source in any way.
I would include a log file, but my settings currently aren't consistent due to the changes I've made and all the uninstall and reinstall things I've done including completely clearing all of settings intentionally while uninstalling OBS. If there are any tips or anything that I might be able to do to figure out why I seem to be the only one that has this issue, that'd be amazing. I'm going to see if Xsplit maybe has this issue as well as I'm not sure if it's only an issue with OBS currently or if it seems to be something to do with the Elgato software in itself.
A few notes:
I'm using Windows 7 Pro, I received the HD60 Pro on Friday, and I was previously using the Game Capture HD.
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