dunbrine47 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Anybody here use the Elgato HD for thier capturing purposes? I went looking through the official website and help files and could not find an answer to my problem. It also sucks that they no longer have an official forum (or I would be there). When I record, most of the time the footage comes out perfectly. Then there are other times where this happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuZAycdsD9E&feature=youtu.be or this: Strange thing is youtube is displaying different frames of the video then when I playback the file on my computer. After talking it over with my friend, I'm thinking the main culprit is my hard drive. We were studying the task manager stats during recordings, processor still has plenty of room to work (the work load is evenly spaced across the four cores), there is at least two gb of ram (out of four) that is not used during recording. While looking at the disk read/write stats, there were times where these huge peaks would show up. The rest of the time the activity was constantly low. Is it that sometimes the hard drive can not accept all this new data being written to it and decides to create files using limited frames? It's like I take a gamble whenever I hit that record button. P.S If anybody is interested in my laptop's stats: Lenovo G50OS: 8.1 64-bit Ram: 4gb Processor: Intel Core i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70ghz 2.40ghz Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/799940-elgato-hd-capture-card/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
swirler Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I use a hauppauge myself. I assume the laptop is being used solely to record the footage - and not play the game on? ^^' Streaming 1080p isnt that intensive so the spec should be more than enough. Is there capture settings you can alter? It may be trying to record at lossless levels of detail, which isnt needed, that could cause some choking. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/799940-elgato-hd-capture-card/?do=findComment&comment=1067583561 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunbrine47 Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 I use a hauppauge myself. I assume the laptop is being used solely to record the footage - and not play the game on? ^^' Streaming 1080p isnt that intensive so the spec should be more than enough. Is there capture settings you can alter? It may be trying to record at lossless levels of detail, which isnt needed, that could cause some choking. Just to record (or as my friends joked how it would look if ran on my comp). I'm going to try to dial down some settings to see if that helps next session. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/799940-elgato-hd-capture-card/?do=findComment&comment=1067583935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
swirler Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I don't suppose capturing on your PC is an option? Nvidias shadowplay has great quality. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/799940-elgato-hd-capture-card/?do=findComment&comment=1067584519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunbrine47 Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 I don't suppose capturing on your PC is an option? Nvidias shadowplay has great quality. Unfortunately I don't have access to a PC for capture purposes (only one that would be able to is unable to be moved to the recording site). Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/799940-elgato-hd-capture-card/?do=findComment&comment=1067587143 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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