Question / Help Horizontal Tearing with Startech capture card

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Gladpants

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Having a hard time finding this.

I use a streaming pc with a Startech Capture Cardhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158317

720p 60 fps
1080p 30 ps.

I play BF3 so there is a lot of movement. I prefer to play at 1080p so I downscale the video 1.50 to 720p for streaming.

I would like my stream to be 60 fps so I have the capture set at 60 fps ( I know this is what is causing it). It will run but I get some pretty bad horizontal screen tearing. The only way I can keep this from happening is running the game and my desktop in 720p.

I like to stream at 60 fps because it is smooth and I like how it looks, but I would like to keep the screen size at 1080 while playing.

Has anyone had any experience with this card?

720p video http://www.twitch.tv/gladpants/b/401510556
1080p downscaled 1.50 video http://www.twitch.tv/gladpants/b/402910319
 
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ottobert

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hm are you able to connect your Card directly to OBS or do you use this stream catcher Software which comes with the Card ?
 
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Gladpants

New Member
I can connect it directly to OBS. I have been struggling with this in my head. Cant quite figure it out. I want to buy an avermedia card but dont have the money right now. People using xsplit and avermedia seem to have no problem with this.

The avermedia cards have the same limitation as mine. 1080p at 30 fps. So I doubt its the card. I can't grasp how people are able to tell the card to capture the signal at 720p 60 fps when the signal they are receiving is 1080p, I can play with the settings and tell it to capture at 720p 60fps but the card Red screens when it detects the settings are different from the video source. It almost like they have something on their streaming pc downscaling the image to 720P before it goes into OBS/xsplit. What i really need is someone who has don't this with this card. It seems like everyone who uses this card uses it for old school console capture and now HDMI capture.
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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Community Helper
I don't know if it's the only card that can do this, but I do know that it can do this. I'd be surprised if there was a card that was much cheaper that could do it.
 
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Gladpants

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I should have said in the consumer price range. $1000 cards that can stream 1080p 60fps are not what I consider practical. lol.
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

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Community Helper
There are no consumer level cards that I know of that can capture 1080p60. The only one I know of that can capture a 1080p60 source and output at 720p60 is the Live Gamer HD.
 
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ottobert

New Member
Hey there,
Im still struggeling with this Card to get it connected with obs, but if i choose the Card a red Screen apears...

any ideas ?

Regards,
Ottobert
 
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