Hardware for recording games

[Biomecanoid]

Hello,

 

I would like to record my games using a second PC.

I did some searching for suitable hardware and i found this:

 

https://www.startech.com/support/PEXHDCAP

I have use similar devices before but for recording Live TV and video off old Cameras but not games.

What do you think of the card

 

Thank You. Happy new year

[Jumballi]

usually an avermedia or elgato capture card with a nvidia graphics card(1650 super or higher) is all your need.
if you're cpu is a quad core, that's also a plus

[emosun]

Just now, Jumballi said:

1650 super or higher

yeah because video capture wasn't a thing a year and a half ago

[Biomecanoid]

1 minute ago, Jumballi said:

usually an avermedia or elgato capture card with a nvidia graphics card(1650 super or higher) is all your need.
if you're cpu is a quad core, that's also a plus

So the startech one is not good ? Show me link of the cards you suggest 

 

[Jumballi]

1 minute ago, Biomecanoid said:

So the startech one is not good ? Show me link of the cards you suggest 

 

https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Game-Capture-HD60-Pro/dp/B014MQIVPS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=elgato+hd60+pro&qid=1577746548&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/AVerMedia-Multi-Card-Low-Latency-Pass-Through-GC570/dp/B06XRF732W/ref=sr_1_5?crid=71PCSFSV1S93&keywords=avermedia+capture+card&qid=1577746557&sprefix=avermedia%2Caps%2C217&sr=8-5
these 2 are the most popular within the groups I hang around, I cannot speak on behalf of startech since I've only used their cables and not their capture cards.

4 minutes ago, Biomecanoid said:

So the startech one is not good ? Show me link of the cards you suggest 

 

I say 1650 super or higher since the new nvenc encoder is much more efficient and you're not going to find anything older in stores outside of the 1650 non super or gt 1030. And yes there are people who will somehoe find a gt 710 and ask if it will work, best to just steer away from that asap. If he has a gpu and doesn't plan to buy one, then he can do that, but all the hardware you can buy at bestbuy today includes the gpu.

[mariushm]

There is plugin for OBS to send uncompressed or near lossless compressed captured data to another pc through the network card

See OBS NDI:

 

 

Capture cards make sense if you want to capture from consoles or if you need to capture bios screen or something where OBS can not run in background (like the installation of an operating system)

If you go with capture cards, I'd imagine you'd want one that gives you an uncompressed stream of what it gets on the hdmi connector, not a version that's compressed to something on the card (with loss of quality)

I don't know about Startech but they're not exactly a brand name in the "capture cards" category. I'd look at established players and then check reviews on youtube and other places for the cards you settle on.

 

[Biomecanoid]

1 hour ago, mariushm said:

There is plugin for OBS to send uncompressed or near lossless compressed captured data to another pc through the network card

See OBS NDI:

 

 

Capture cards make sense if you want to capture from consoles or if you need to capture bios screen or something where OBS can not run in background (like the installation of an operating system)

If you go with capture cards, I'd imagine you'd want one that gives you an uncompressed stream of what it gets on the hdmi connector, not a version that's compressed to something on the card (with loss of quality)

I don't know about Startech but they're not exactly a brand name in the "capture cards" category. I'd look at established players and then check reviews on youtube and other places for the cards you settle on.

 

Sounds good. I will give it a try 

[LogicalDrm]

11 hours ago, Biomecanoid said:

So the startech one is not good ? Show me link of the cards you suggest 

 

Whats your hardware? Unless you get that one capture card from Avermedia, you still will need to encode video with CPU. Capture cards are mainly for situations where you game on another device or render on other. Or need more than one webcam to input into single output.

[Biomecanoid]

11 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

Whats your hardware? Unless you get that one capture card from Avermedia, you still will need to encode video with CPU. Capture cards are mainly for situations where you game on another device or render on other. Or need more than one webcam to input into single output.

Thats what i wanted. 2 pc setup, one for gaming another for recording. 

 

Regarding hardware i am in the process of upgrading to the max 2 HP workstations xw8400 and z400.

 

I should make a build thread on that as noone would think 10 year old workstation would be able to game.

[LogicalDrm]

2 hours ago, Biomecanoid said:

Thats what i wanted. 2 pc setup, one for gaming another for recording. 

 

Regarding hardware i am in the process of upgrading to the max 2 HP workstations xw8400 and z400.

 

I should make a build thread on that as noone would think 10 year old workstation would be able to game.

Ok, then any capture card with HD input. Avermedia, Elgato and Black Magic are the big fish in there.