Bug Report Large FPS drop with Avermedia Capture Card...

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robaroo

New Member
Started getting into streaming recently and because of my PC spec brought an Avermedia Live Gamer HD C985 capture card.

Was told it would help keep the frames up by taking the strain of the CPU.
When running...ex Arma 3 with no capture..im gettign frames of about 35-45fps. When i start streaming im dropping down to about 18-20fps :(

System specs:
Del XPS 8000
Intel Core i7 860 @2.80 Lynnfield (Gen 1.)
8GB Ram
AMD Radeon 6950 2gb
Avermedia Live Gamer HD C985

Streaming OBS specs:
Quality Balance: 10
Bitrate: 3500
Buffer Size: 3500
Internet 100mb down 10mb up
Audio Encoding: AAC 128 Bitrate
Streaming at 1280x720 FPS 30
Output Format YV12
x264 CPU Preset: veryfast

I really thought the card would help the FPS..doesnt seem to be helping that much :(
 
Jack0r

Jack0r

The Helping Squad
This capture card CAN take the strain off your cpu if you use it for encoding the input. (Avermedia limited this function to its own software though, and one or two after programs)
With OBS you unfortunately can only use it as a normal Capture Card, which literally gives you no performance gain on a single pc setup.
Maybe slap the guy who told you about the Live Gamer but didnt tell you the encoder is best used for local recordings, which can then be edited and later uploaded to youtube for example.
 
T

TCi

Member
I'm only aware of support for HW encoding forAvermedia Live Gamer on Xsplit. Nothing for OBS yet. Not sure if planned.

But you will get a lot better result by dropping quality balance to 6 or 7. Having 10 on FPS games are very straining on the CPU.
 
dodgepong

dodgepong

Administrator
Community Helper
Yep, with a single-PC setup, a capture card will not give you any performance increase.
 
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