Question / Help Will a capture card help with recording lag free gameplay?

[Fluffyrox4]

Currently when I record on higher settings both in OBS and in game, the output video lags a bunch. If I get a capture card though, will it stop lagging no matter what settings I have in game? If anyone has a comparison kind of thing that'd be nice too. Thanks!

 

[DEDRICK]

Capture cards are for 2 PC streaming or connecting consoles to a single PC system

 

[Fluffyrox4]

If I were to use one with just one pc though, would it help?

 

[Narcogen]

No, not really.

 

[Fluffyrox4]

But would it help record on a bad pc without having a laggy output file?

 

[macharborguy]

In a single PC setup, you are still running OBS and the Game on the same system. All the capture card is doing is taking the HDMI signal, capturing it and inputting it back into the system. This causes the PCI bus to fill with even more data that it was before, and could actually add more strain on an already strained system, possibly causing more lag.

I just built a Ryzen 7 1700x system and was going to use that as my dedicated gaming PC, but did try to use it as a single PC setup for 1 broadcast. "ONE BROADCAST". After that, I just went back to using my previous gaming PC, and now use the Ryzen as a dedicated OBS system.

The issue I ran into with many intensive 3D games was that either the game itself ran like crap but OBS was running fine (HITMAN), or OBS was running like crap and the game was fine (DOOM).

 

[T1D_Lucas]

It might be because you’re using a slower hard drive to download the files. If you have a SSD I suggest using it. You can get rid of lag easily, just by changing the video bitrate