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It's a good card that is most useful when capturing video and audio from another computer. When using it on the same computer, it is very useful at all, as it does not really do anything to reduce CPU usage.

I would only get if if you either need a fast Monitor capture replacement that can capture both fullscreen and windowed games, if you need to capture games that use DirectX 8 or earlier, if you need to capture a game that uses a hack shield of some sort and need to play it in fullscreen mode, or if you are capturing from a console or another computer. If you don't have any of those needs (most people don't), then you don't need a capture card.

Most people use Game capture, which is actually faster than a capture card. For League, they use one scene with Window capture and one scene with Game capture and use the Simple Scene Switcher to swap between them automatically.
 
lo, live gamer HD reduce CPU usage, you can grab every game without fps drops, trust me...
You can stream 720p @60 fps without drops (for example league of legends)
i saw movie that guy stream sc2 with core 2 duo CPU + grabber + OBS so....
 
Don't get me wrong, it does a fine job capturing, but so does Game Capture, and Game Capture does it faster. Compared to most of your options for capturing on a single-PC setup, a capture card is not always the fastest.
 
Bladees said:
lo, live gamer HD reduce CPU usage, you can grab every game without fps drops, trust me...
You can stream 720p @60 fps without drops (for example league of legends)
i saw movie that guy stream sc2 with core 2 duo CPU + grabber + OBS so....
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Yeah, no. OBS can't use the on-card hardware encoder. Game capture is still going to be faster than the cap card and have fewer issues in a vast majority of cases. You are not going to offload anything unless you're using a second devoted-encoder system, and your setup will be FAR less flexible.

As Dodgepong said, the ONLY thing a capture card will do for you in a single-system setup is allow you to stream from a console, stream 'hack shield' games that don't allow OBS to hook the game or window, and waste a good portion of your money. Don't bother unless one of the above three is your desired result.

If you want to use the on-card hardware encoder, you have to use THEIR software (not OBS) which allows you to add... a microphone. I think. Not even a cam. Also, the hardware encoder they use produces results that are... poor, to be generous (or like complete poop, to be less-so).
 
you can stream with obs and live gamer hd ehm, you can add live gamer hd like your webcam and cpu is not busy by capturing your screen couse avermedia does it.
if you stream by avermedia your cpu usage by obs is like when you stream only your webcam without grabbing games.
Why you tell that game capture is faster? avermedia is hdmi grabber and you can grab everything from your graphic card out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA55WaOt6LI check this for example
 
Using Game Capture and Window Capture with Aero enabled also uses no CPU. Capture cards have to go through more pre process stuff and can actually result in slightly worse performance on a single PC setup. Game Capture/Window Capture with Aero enabled pull stuff directly from the GPU and send it right to the encoder.

Trust me, we've all done our homework on this. Capture cards are FANTASTIC for 2 PC setups and consoles, but provide very little benefit, and a lot of times can be detrimental, in a single PC setup.
 
Krazy said:
Trust me, we've all done our homework on this. Capture cards are FANTASTIC for 2 PC setups and consoles, but provide very little benefit, and a lot of times can be detrimental, in a single PC setup.
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Well, I have at least 30% FPS boost when using Live Gamer HD and AverMedia`s soft (Recentral) in World of Warships. Afaik in MechWarrior online fps gain was more significant. https://youtu.be/qEVIifwE3ws
 
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