Hey guys, last night was a sad day for me. I have been using OBS for about 3 years now and have absolutely loved it. Its been such a good program, and I am thankful for everyone that has chipped in to develop it. However, I have run into a problem that I don't know is fixable, at this time.
Yesterday, I got my second Elgato HD60 Pro, in the mail, and hooked it up. I got Elgato to send me their "experimental" driver to be able to use 2 elgato's at the same time. I opened up OBS and added both video sources, and it worked fine, but the interface was laggy. I restarted my pc, to see if that would help at all and now OBS will not show both sources at the same time and freezes up. I have tried everything from starting from scratch, and making new scenes/sources, to unplugging things and starting fresh, to changing any settings that might interfere, etc... I really wanted this to work, as everytime I load up OBS now, I get a black screen for my xbox and only my camera works, or vise versa. Then, OBS freezes up and force closes. I assume its a driver issue with OBS, but I'm not sure. I hopped on the community chat and talked to a dev, but we were not able to fix the problem. I should mention that if I try this same process on OBS Classic, it runs much better, but the dev told me that OBS classic was dead, and Studio is better/more efficient.
So, I wanted to stream yesterday with both capture cards, and since OBS was failing me, I downloaded Xsplit. Not knowing that when I logged in it said I had a full year of premium for free, I was off to a good start. Anyways, I added my scene/sources and it worked perfectly. No lag, runs both Elgatos perfectly fine, just like OBS should be doing. I used it for 4 hours straight, streaming/recording and never had an issue.
Now, I would rather use OBS, as I think its more precise in what I can change, but unless I can get the issue resolved I will just simply have to put OBS on the backburner. If anyone at all has any recommendations, or advice, I am all ears. Please don't take this as a bash thread, or a hate thread. I am simply trying to explain my situation and are seeking help. Thank you for taking the time to read this, have a good day.
Yesterday, I got my second Elgato HD60 Pro, in the mail, and hooked it up. I got Elgato to send me their "experimental" driver to be able to use 2 elgato's at the same time. I opened up OBS and added both video sources, and it worked fine, but the interface was laggy. I restarted my pc, to see if that would help at all and now OBS will not show both sources at the same time and freezes up. I have tried everything from starting from scratch, and making new scenes/sources, to unplugging things and starting fresh, to changing any settings that might interfere, etc... I really wanted this to work, as everytime I load up OBS now, I get a black screen for my xbox and only my camera works, or vise versa. Then, OBS freezes up and force closes. I assume its a driver issue with OBS, but I'm not sure. I hopped on the community chat and talked to a dev, but we were not able to fix the problem. I should mention that if I try this same process on OBS Classic, it runs much better, but the dev told me that OBS classic was dead, and Studio is better/more efficient.
So, I wanted to stream yesterday with both capture cards, and since OBS was failing me, I downloaded Xsplit. Not knowing that when I logged in it said I had a full year of premium for free, I was off to a good start. Anyways, I added my scene/sources and it worked perfectly. No lag, runs both Elgatos perfectly fine, just like OBS should be doing. I used it for 4 hours straight, streaming/recording and never had an issue.
Now, I would rather use OBS, as I think its more precise in what I can change, but unless I can get the issue resolved I will just simply have to put OBS on the backburner. If anyone at all has any recommendations, or advice, I am all ears. Please don't take this as a bash thread, or a hate thread. I am simply trying to explain my situation and are seeking help. Thank you for taking the time to read this, have a good day.
