Comments on: AVerMedia Releases Game Capture HD II: Makes Gameplay Recording Easier Than Ever

By: UE

UE — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 02:53:00 +0000

Shadowplay isn’t just software r_r… it links to the .h264 encoders BUILT IN on all 6xx and 7xx series nvidia graphics cards and takes the image from the card itself directly. before spitting it out to the hard drive.
The idea is that it will put even less stress on the processor and hard drive than traditional capture cards.

Infact the program doesn’t have a software only mode and is reputed to have a sub 3% performance drop on the minimum requirements for the system.

Enough that their “shadowmode” allows the program to be on constantly while playing games and when you hit a button it saves the last 20minutes (meaning you can be playing a game and just hit a button while playing to record something you did rather than having to be recording all the time and creating gigantic files)

By: WhiteSkyMage

WhiteSkyMage — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:46:00 +0000

…you are telling me that a software will do a better job than a capture card i am not convinced at all. What will most likely happen is really, it will put my CPU on 30% more load (it’s not like i don’t wanna challenge my CPU, but hey!) and then take lots of performance out of the game into capturing and recording…Tell me that shadowplay isn’t like the other capturing software ive used…

By: UE

UE — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 04:45:00 +0000

-shrugs- up to you. I would say just go for a 4770k and a capture card.

Also Nvidia are releasing shadowplay sometime later this year which if you have an nvidia card will make the whole capture card thing obsolete and pointless. (their latest update said they were swapping the output file from m2ts to mp4… not sure why that is taking so long but /shrugs)

By: WhiteSkyMage

WhiteSkyMage — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 02:33:00 +0000

So I am grabbing the signal of the game straight from my graphics card and recording it using that Live Gamer (which has it’s own CPU). Now cuz i heard that the Ivy Bridge-E was really good when I am planning to do those kind of things (video editing, rendering and encoding) and that’s why i am really concerned, is it really that worth buying Live Gamer HD or i can simply use that crazy high end CPU…

By: UE

UE — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 01:21:00 +0000

Nah it doesn’t because of how the footage is captured, processed and written.

Whenever you end up using a hardware .h264 encoder it takes a HUGE amount of load off, not only this you are grabbing the video signal straight from the output and encoding it from there.

By: Connor Orischak

Connor Orischak — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:50:00 +0000

would i be able to use this to capture directly from my 660 Ti, then to my monitor, then back to my pc?

By: WhiteSkyMage

WhiteSkyMage — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:53:00 +0000

I wonder what is really the performance of the Live Gamer hd. Even with high CPU usage, if i have a very high end cpu, say the 6-core i7 4930K, won’t that keep the game fps up (i mean won’t the 6cores handle it all – capturing and the game itself)?

By: Michael Scaraggi

Michael Scaraggi — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:14:00 +0000

Going in my next PC build!!

By: Elric Phares

Elric Phares — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:08:00 +0000

Yes It Can

By: Elric Phares

Elric Phares — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:07:00 +0000

Software solutions many times uses weird video formats that when you try and change them for YOUTube either don’t work at all or works really poorly. It also does not take away system resources like software based solutions so when you record what you see is what you get not a degradation in performance like FRAPS.