IndyofComo
New Member
Hello. I am new to streaming and I'm trying to figure out what woudl be the best way to improve my setup. I had an idea (buy capture card for my 2nd PC and stream from it,) but that plan was made from ignorance of the complexities and variety of options out there.
My gaming PC is an Asus G74S RoG laptop; it's 5-6 years old, integrated GeForce 560M and an i7-2670QM cpu. Currently I am running a single-PC streaming setup, so my cpu is doing all the encoding. (I haven't been able to find any other option, but this is one of those places ignorance could be steering me wrong.)
I have a tower PC which is even older--a Dell Inspirion from 10-11 years ago probably. Looking at the guides here my initial plan (when I dig the tower out from whereever it is we've stashed it--it hasn't been in use for a long time) is to dual-PC and have the tower do the encoding with its cpu.
--Right now I am at work. I could fairly easily get to my laptop's dxdiag specs, but as I mentioned before the tower is not even put together right now; I'll try to have it's specs(if they matter) over the weekend.
I have tried to do some consumer research on capture cards, but I think there is much about them I don't know. Let me ask some questions to start building my knowledge.
1) In a dual-PC setup, which PC is capturing voice and camera?
2) Is video encoding on the GPU something your video card needs to be able to do, or is this an ability you can add to it?
3) In my attempts to research capture cards, it looks like there are two kinds--'game capture' cards and 'pci capture' cards. Game capture seems to be made to copy your home A/V inputs for consoles, PCI capture seems to be made to copy your gaming PC inputs. Is this correct? If I wanted to do both, will I end up needing two seperate capture cards?
My gaming PC is an Asus G74S RoG laptop; it's 5-6 years old, integrated GeForce 560M and an i7-2670QM cpu. Currently I am running a single-PC streaming setup, so my cpu is doing all the encoding. (I haven't been able to find any other option, but this is one of those places ignorance could be steering me wrong.)
I have a tower PC which is even older--a Dell Inspirion from 10-11 years ago probably. Looking at the guides here my initial plan (when I dig the tower out from whereever it is we've stashed it--it hasn't been in use for a long time) is to dual-PC and have the tower do the encoding with its cpu.
--Right now I am at work. I could fairly easily get to my laptop's dxdiag specs, but as I mentioned before the tower is not even put together right now; I'll try to have it's specs(if they matter) over the weekend.
I have tried to do some consumer research on capture cards, but I think there is much about them I don't know. Let me ask some questions to start building my knowledge.
1) In a dual-PC setup, which PC is capturing voice and camera?
2) Is video encoding on the GPU something your video card needs to be able to do, or is this an ability you can add to it?
3) In my attempts to research capture cards, it looks like there are two kinds--'game capture' cards and 'pci capture' cards. Game capture seems to be made to copy your home A/V inputs for consoles, PCI capture seems to be made to copy your gaming PC inputs. Is this correct? If I wanted to do both, will I end up needing two seperate capture cards?