Capture Card for Laptop Streaming

[BattleFrogue]

Hey guys, 

 

My friend streams to twitch from her laptop, and recently her performance seems to be degrading. Would using a capture card increase the performance at all as a cheaper solution to a new laptop/desktop.

Also can this be done just using the one laptop and feeding the captured footage back via usb 3 for example

 

All help is appreciated, as well as other suggestions

 

Many Thanks

BlackRogue

[Mark77]

Maybe address "why" the performance is degrading.  Most laptops have some pretty aggressive thermal de-rate schemes these days.  So give the fan and heatsink a good cleaning with compressed air at least as a first step. 

 

You're probably not going to want to have it all on the same machine if you're trying to eke out every last drop of performance. 

[Moonzy]

if she had no problems streaming before then i would probably try and fix the issue before upgrading lol

 

maybe its time to dust the laptop, do some software cleanup and what not

[BattleFrogue]

Thanks for all the help, I'll get her to do that.