Question / Help What capture card meets my needs. Been searching and cant pick.

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zazzoostream

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Hello everyone unfortunatly im here today because i just upgraded to a desktop one that i thought i was going to be able to stream from no problem. My laptop what i was using before was able to stream decently but i was looking for a better result so i purchased my desktop. Anyways i didnt take into consideration the hit from the CPU difference i would take and now im stuck not being able to stream on my desktop.

i want to be able to use a capture card so i can play games on my desktop and have my laptop stream them to twitch. My problem is that i heard alot of different issues that can happen.

MY DESKTOP CAN BE CONNECTED BY ANY TYPE OF DISPLAY WIRE MY LAPTOP REQUIRE HDMI OR MINI DISPLAY PORT

WANT

-144hz on my gaming pc screen i dont care about the other screens
-Would like to do 1080p @60 FPS but willing to downscale to 720P @60FPS
- want to be able to use my usb headphones and mic

Current Desktop Specs (The Computer i want to play games on)
- MSI AMD Radeon R9 390
- 16GB Ram
- Intel i5-4690k 3.50 GHz (overclocked to 4.4 GHz, 4 CPU)

Laptop Specs (The computer i want to stream from)
- MSI GE62 2QD Apache Pro
- Nvidia GTX 960m
- 8GB of Ram
- Intel i7-5700HQ (2.7 GHz, 8 CPU)

what do i need to achieve this?
 
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raindeeers

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You can use the GPU to encode your stream instead. It wont affect CPU usage and it wont affect game performance either. It will however require a tad more bitrate in order to get the same quality as the software encoder, but that's how it is with all hardware encoders.

1) Use OBS Multiplatform which has native AMD VCE support
or
2) Use classic OBS with AMD VCE support (extract and overwrite) https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/obs-branch-with-amd-vce-support.13996/

You can stream in 1080p at 60fps and you wont notice a performance hit or temperature increase either.
^ The above is only true if you have GCN 1.2 which you don't. Sorry. But you can do 720/60 without a dent in performance.
 
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Harold

Harold

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144hz gaming display, because of how capture cards work, basically is off the table.

You want a USB 3.0 based capture device based on what you want to hook up to what.
 
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kzpl23

Member
actually after reading people said you can do 144hz on the gaming pc. What you need to do though is run an obs instance on your gaming pc and preview the gameplay, then you do full screen projection and would select the capture card. Thats the idea of it, also they said if you have nvidia card you can select refresh rate for each monitor. So you could do 144hz on the main one and 60hz for the capture. However, people said they get bad screen tearing doing that so the best way is to run the obs instance on the gaming pc and do what i mentioned above.

I will try it out when I am back home on my main rig and will let you know if it works. I also have the same laptop and I am looking to use it as a streaming machine while I play on my gaming pc.

These are the capture cards I looked at still not sure which one I will get. All are USB 3.0

x capture 1
Magewell XI100DUSB-HDMI HDMI to USB 3.0 Video Capture Dongle
avermedia extreme cap u3
avermedia live gamer extreme
Startech USB3HDCAP
 
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