Avermedia GC573 issues and general dual PC problems.
Hi fellas. So I have been facing several issues with this capture card since the day I got it pretty much. Passthrough at 1440p 144hz causing some tearing (on my main monitor), the signal in OBS eventually freezes or presents frame drops. In addition, I have tried screen projection with OBS and still, there is noticeable frame dropping going on.
Screen clonign does somehow allow me to use DP and avoid the tearing, BUT, I get input lag and the games freezes upon tabbing in and out.
Moonlight so far seems like the most stable way to utilize between 2 PCs, BUT, at the cost of framerate in games.
Any help or advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Could you post the following:
1. Your PC specs for both the gaming and streaming PC's (CPU, GPU, monitor that you're gaming on)
2. Can you post an OBS log where you had these issues occur
Hi and sorry for the delay
1. Game rig "9700k, 1070, 16GB ram 1440p 240hz" , stream rig "6700k, 2060"
Basically after a point the card just makes a major tear and freezes.
https://obsproject.com/logs/7FmPj1QhidyIXuD7
I cloned the capture card which helped with framerates and all, but as I said, it does a major freezing after a while.
That log doesn't have any recordings or streams done in it - do the issues happen even when you're not recording or streaming?
Also have you tried updating the firmware / drivers for the capture card?
`Yes everything is updated.
I haven't noticed it, because I only turn it on when about to stream.
https://obsproject.com/logs/eOBARJxaI1xdUZUW
try this
No outputs in that one either
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How..
😦
Damn, I have no clue why.
What time did you last stream or record something
a few hours ago
For the video capture device sources you're using, how are they laid out? As in do you have that source in two different scenes?
yes
One for main scene one for just chatting
same source tho
not like "capture1" and "capture 2"
I think at least
let me check
In the logs I'm seeing two different sources of
Video Capture Device 1 and Video Capture Device 2
Can you try doing this:lemme check every scene
does it say in which one?
I have a few
I'll find it nvm, go on.
🙂
- Make a new scene
- Create a video capture source in that scene for your capture card
- In every other scene where you used the capture source (should be your
In-game and Just Chatting scenes) delete the video capture device and replace it with a nested scene sourceAlright I will do that. Do you believe,l that might fix the issue with the tearing of death?
As I like to call it.
It should, my guess is that pulling the capture card in twice is causing some contention issues
Also other question, you have a game capture source on the streaming PC - what is it for?
It's my backup plan when the capture card dies in the middle of the stream
using moonlight
which yes, it does the job BUT at a very heavy cost to my GPU
of the gaming PC in terms of frames for some reason
As an example, MW3 will get 190frames let's say witht he cpature card or the system alone
but with moonlight down to 120
I'd test things out with removing it as well just so you're not taxing the system more than necessary
70 frames deduct is just lame 😦
yes
The tax with moonlight is real
120frames means on stupid unoptimized areas will go down to 75
and GL against the people with 40 series and monster CPUs
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Try turning off Moonlight on the gaming Pc and removing the source for it in OBS on the streaming PC
Alright make a cpature card only fresh scene and then add a capture source on just chatting na dgaming right?
Yeah it is not on
only on emeergencies
You would add a scene source to the two scenes I mentioned, and select the newly made capture-card-only scene
Alright gotcha
doing it now
thanks
1080p 60 right?
for the capture
not 1440p 144hz?
Yes?
Use whatever settings you'd normally use for your capture card
Realistically 60fps is fine unless you have a specific reason for it
No 60 is what I always use.
Shall I clone or passthrough? Cloning appears to act better
than passthrough
no tearing or anything
When passthrough, I get something like a moving line on the gaming monitor
Try passthrough for the time being
Cloning introduces a lot of other issues
Do you have a screenshot of that line?
Sadly no
lemme explain it
Imagine a line that starts from the top and rolls down to the bottom
like...a waterfall
or rather liek a scanning line
like thos 80s movies scan detectors
What motherboard are you using for the streaming PC?
What slot is the GPU and what slot is the capture card in?
It is an HP Motherboard
but the design looks like an MSI
Upper slot is the GPU, 2nd is the capture card
Plus for some reason with Passthrough HDMI, the monitor dimms itself -.- which is annoying
Can you open a command prompt window as admin and run this command and paste the output here
wmic baseboard get product,manufacturer,version,serialnumbersure
sent on DM
K scenes are ready
It seems to be working smoothly in terms of mouse motion, something which was kinda glitched before, but we'll see
If the suggestions I had from earlier don't work, my next would be that the PCIe slots on the board are the issue
Basically the top slot is connected to the CPU directly, whereas other slots go through the chipset. Capture cards don't do super well when plugged into the chipset slots
I did switched seats in the past
still had the same issue
But now with the new scenes, I will see how it goes
But with what you suggested it seems fluent so far
in terms of frames
nice
do a longer term test and let me know how it goes
I will, ty very very much for your time and the advices so far
🙂