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Hi guys, I recently got an Asus Tuf F15 with an i5 12500h. It's supposed to have a Thunderbolt 4 support on one of the USB c ports. I couldnt find any Thunderbolt controller info in the Device Manager, I installed the Thunderbolt Control Center and the Thunderbolt Controller Version is showing up as N/A. I couldn't find any drivers that I'm missing, the laptop is pretty much up to date with everything. What am I missing? Thanks for help!

Hi guys, I know that there are some issues with connecting multiple video capture cards to one PC and they could both work only if they were connected to separate USB controllers. Is there any hardware that could help with that? I have an Asus Tuf F15 laptop with i5 12500h. It has a Thunderbolt 4 port, are there any devices that can allow me to connect more than 1 video capture card? (Or do you know of any 2 or 3 channel capture cards that connect over USB instead of pcie?) Thanks!

Hi guys, Some time ago I borrowed a Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3-15 with following specs: i5-12450H RTX 3050 + UHD Graphics 16GB DDR4 3200 MHz 512GB The purpose for this laptop was to handle an OBS centered stream. We have multiple IP cameras that we connect to using gstreamer and our OBS setup is decently large. That laptop was handling the stream pretty well with a stable 50-60% CPU usage and about 40% GPU usage in a "worst case scenario". Since the price difference between that Lenovo and an Asus TUF laptop wasn't that big, in the end I bought an Asus TUF Gaming F15 with following specs: i5-12500H RTX3050 + Intel Iris 16GB DDR4 3200 MHz 512GB I figured that a slightly better CPU would be a good thing to leave some room for expansion. I got this laptop, updated everything - drivers, windows, bios, installed the same version of OBS as before and loaded our stream. OBS climbed to 75-80% CPU usage and wouldn't go down. I spent a couple of hours trying everything. Updating, downgrading, restarting, resetting, nothing would help. I checked power modes, I tried the built in GPU MUX, I switched game mode on and off - nothing. The CPU was boosting to 4.2GHz on all 4 performance cores, it would get to about 75C when running our OBS, the highest I saw it was 83C with a stress test hitting CPU and GPU at the same time. At this point I can't imagine anything else. All of the major programs we use have exactly the same version as before, we keep executables to make sure we can go back to exactly the same setup and it makes this laptop unusable for us. I like it cause it's a bit better built than the Lenovo and has better IO, but we can't stream with 13fps. Do you have any idea what could be causing that?

all righty thanks a lot, got some baseline specs I can try out. Do you know of any other OBS tips and tricks to offload more CPU stuff to GPU? I usually check any "Use hardware acceleration" checkmark, anything else that could be useful?

Do you think an i5-12450h or i5-12500h have a fighting chance to handle this? I want to order a laptop to do some testing but also don't want to order something super overkill. Should I be looking at something specific in gpus? I'd assume the most important would be what encoders it supports and since we want to stay with H264 for now, that should be supported in older, 20 series gpus. Would a 2050 or 2060 make sense?

Our setup is a little bit different right now, we're using an M1 Pro MacBook, but we can't continue using it. I also want a Windows machine because importing scenes to a MacOS version of OBS breaks lots of things and we update our scenes quite often.

Hi guys, I'm looking for a new laptop for streaming our micro drone racing league races. Our OBS setup is relatively big, we have in total: - 5 IP cameras ran using gstreamer plugin (1080p30) - 2 HDMI capture card inputs (one 1080p60 and one 1080p30) - 1-2 NDI sources (1080p60) - ~10 browser sources - An in-memory multi replay system for a 1080p60 source - many animating backgrounds/frames/logos/stinger transitions - 3-4 audio inputs from an audio interface We're streaming to YouTube at 1080p60, 12Mbit/s H264 and it would be great if we would be able to record in OBS as well (or output to NDI as well so we can record on a different machine) I'm looking for a laptop that will be able to run the OBS setup with some overhead (not a complete overkill) while being able to perform some other small tasks (browsers, communicators, etc) as well as running 2 additional 1080p60 displays (3 in total). I'm mostly looking for rough specs, but if you have a specific laptop in mind, it would be great if it was built well and had decent IO (gigabit ethernet, hdmi, USB a and USB c are a must). Thanks for help!

Thanks for the answer, some really good ideas. The unfortunate thing is that no one really figured it out. Some guys in UK have some technology (I'm pretty sure it's metal detection based) with PoC, but it's still not good enough for actual race use and they've been working on it for over a year. It's a pretty young hobby and there are still only a few larger leagues around the world. VL53LOX is actually the sensor I used. I would need 3 of them to cover the entire gate, it's definitely possible and I had PoC working a couple of months ago, but it was not reliable on higher speeds. You can increase polling rate, but it's still not quite there. 5.8GHz triangulation has been my dream for some time as it would allow us to do some more advanced tracking and maybe pipe the data to make a map for our streams. It could maybe be possible, but it's definitely out of my knowledge level right now. I think it would be tricky because transmitters on drones are constantly tweaking their output level, so that would require some additional processing. Image processing is probably the route that I'm going to investigate next. Either external hi speed camera or processing the FPV video that comes from the drone. Probably a decently simple algorithm could recognize a gate and figure out if the drone flew through it. It would have to process 4 video streams at the same time, but with some optimization and decent hardware it should be possible. Thanks!

Yeah, that's what I started with, kind of how I used the time of flight sensor, but to cover the entire gate we'd need a whole array of emitters and detectors on the other side of the gate. In case of circular gates, that's pretty difficult to do. Usually for that I would try to use infrared, but LEDs in gates sometimes mess with IR and can give a lot of IR noise.

Hi guys! TLDR: Tiny drone, 65mm, 20g, we want to detect that it flew through a ring without putting any marker/tag on the drone itself. Shouldn't trigger if the drone flies right outside of the ring. I'm a race director at Polish national micro drone racing league and for a long time I wanted to figure out a way to detect that a drone flew through a gate. Right now our laptiming system uses 5.8GHz video signal strength from the drone to figure out when it flew next to the laptimer and it counts that as a lap. Sometimes, though, the drone can fly right next to the laptimer, but not fly through the start gate and in that case the lap should not be counted, right now it's manually verified. The biggest problem is that we don't want any additional sensors/tags on the drones because pilots fight for every 0.1g in their weight and these rockets are both small (about 65mm) and fast (easily doing 50kph indoors). I tried using laser Time of Flight sensors with some success, but they usually have a really narrow FOV so you need multiple to cover the gate. They have to be calibrated for gate size/shape so they don't trigger when the drone flies right next to the gate, and they work about 80% of the time, if the drone is going REALLY fast, it sometimes won't detect it. I've heard of some people experimenting with other sensors, but never with success. I was wondering if it would be possible to embed some loop in the gate and use that for a detection mechanism, but my physics/electronics knowledge is somewhat limited. Video from one of our pilots for reference: Do you have any ideas how to tackle this?

Hello guys! I'm looking for a small, but well built access point (AP only). I organize (small) events and move all networking stuff all the time, it gets dropped, kicked, dropkicked and occasionally kickdropped. I need something that's well build and ideally doesn't have any external antennas, but still has 2.4 and 5GHz WiFi. We can't use these in-outlet repeaters, so it needs to be something "standalone". Don't really need any additional LAN ports, but if it had some, they'd have to be Gigabit ports. It doesn't need to be anything special, it's not going to see more than 15-20 devices. I'd rather get something that's made from MiLiTaRy GrAdE materials than something that can handle 600 clients. The closest thing to what I need that I found is MikroTik hAP ac lite, but it only has 100Mb ports and its plastic case doesn't inspire confidence. Do you Folks know of anything that matches my needs? Waiting to hear from y'all!

I swapped the CPU and connected everything to the new PSU and it seems to be stable, gonna RME the CPU this week then. Thanks for help!

Thanks for the answer. Well, that's making me just a bit more hopeful. Do you think there's any chance that the PSU could kill only the CPU and nothing else? I can swap the CPU for my old Ryzen, but I don't want to kill a second CPU if the PSU is doing something funky.

Hi guys, To get to the point: System specs: Ryzen 9 5900X + Dark Rock Pro 4 (2 months old) Strix RTX3060 (almost 2 years old) Vengeance LPX, DDR4, 32 GB, 3000MHz, CL15 (6 months old) ASRock B450M Steel Legend (almost 3 years old) be quiet! Straight Power 11 850W 80 Plus Platinum (almost 2 years old) In short: PC just shut down yesterday while doing light work (some very simple Fusion360 modeling). No magic smoke, no weird smells, it just wouldn't post. The CPU fan would start for ~30sec and then stop for a while and restart. Today it spins continously, but I'm still getting no POST. Nothing was overclocked, max temps on the CPU were around 65C 2 months ago when I was stress testing it. I have a second system that I tried swapping components to and it seems that the only thing that does not work is the new CPU. I did all the tests with an old PSU, I didn't want to use the new one in case it was the problem all along. The old CPU works all right with the new mobo, it posts normally. The new CPU does not work with old or new mobo, on both the behaviour is the same. CPU fan spins (kinda slowly) and I'm getting no post. I also tried two GPUs with that CPU and with only one stick of RAM, no dice. What's your best bet? Did the PSU kill the CPU or did I just really lose the silicon lottery? Is there any chance of an RME for the CPU in that case? Thanks for any help!

Yeah, I pay for Youtube Premium because I use it every single day, not just for entertainment, but for learning, basic information and music. Right now in Poland it's HALF the price of the Facebook/Instagram subscription that Meta proposes (25.99PLN for YT Premium vs 56.99PLN) for Meta. It's an incredible value and price difference for me. Facebook realizes very well that there are a lot of people that will be forced to agree to these changes because they cannot just stop using FB because they would have to sacrifice their hobbies or interests by leaving groups etc.