Question / Help Streaming Questions

[ithoro]

I'm a little new to streaming and I had a couple questions. Currently I game at 1080p/60fps with crossfired 7970's. I know that because of the way that OBS interacts with direct game capture, crossfire cannot be used therefore I have to lower my settings in some games to get 60fps.

First question, is it possible to run a capture card either in the same machine or a secondary one to bypass the issue with OBS disabling crossfire? If yes, then is there a way to stream 1080p/60 with this? I have been looking at the Avermedia Live Gamer HD but I have read reports that it can only do 1080p/30. Is this the case even if I am using OBS to do the actual encoding/streaming?

Any help would be appreciated

Specs:
i7-3770k @ 4.6
16GB Ram @ 2133
Samsung 840 Pro 512
Gigabyte G1.Sniper3
2TB Storage Drives
2 x XFX 7970's
Internet 50/15

 

[R1CH]

You shouldn't even try to stream at 1080p60, since many people will be unable to watch the stream due to flash player being bad at decoding.

 

[ithoro]

So either stick to 1080p30 or downscale to 720p60? Man, flash needs to work on that, that really sucks. Thanks! Any idea about the crossfire?

 

[Lain]

People do two-PC streaming all the time, with one PC for gaming and one for streaming/capturing via capture device. It'd probably be the best bet. We can't really guarantee things will work properly with crossfire, though SLI seems to work fine in most cases.