AVerMediaGC570 Live Gamer HD 2 – PCIe Capture Card with 1080p60 Uncompressed Streaming, Ultra-Low Latency, HDMI & 3.5mm Input, Pass-Through, OBS, PS4, Xbox, Switch, Windows, PC

I have been looking for a capture card for a while to live stream to YouTube, this worked perfectly for what I wanted. I streamed for over 4 hours and I didn't have any problems, the metal shroud keeping the card covers seems to work well as a heat sink. Just make sure your computer has good air flow and you should be good.I used StreamLabs and never touched the AVerMedia software, so I won't be commenting on how well that performs.The "Live Gamer HD 2" is the PCIe capture card, plugged in really easy. No drivers / updates required. Literally worked right out of the box so it was just plug 'n play. The HDMI pass through worked wonders, I couldn't actually feel any input lag which was nice as you do get a bit of an input delay when passing through a capture card. Huge plus on that front.Solid 1080p 60fps image quality from the nintendo switch, I had no comments during the live stream about any problems with the image quality and I watched some of the footage back and it does appear that the card DOESN'T compress the picture quality which is a good thing. You don't lose any detail in the image but does put more stress on your hardware to process it.This leads me onto my next point, people gave this 1 star because they don't know what to do or don't know how these devices work. You DO need a high end computer to live stream a decent bitrate - high resolution image. You can't expect a lower end desktop to encode the image for a live stream without problems. The best thing you can do is drop the bitrate in your streaming software until you get a smooth image, this does mean you will be sacrificing image quality the lower the bit rate though.I have attached an image of the live stream, this was recorded at 1080 - 60 fps - 6500 bitrate and this is AFTER YouTube ran it through processing and the image quality is still fantastic.

I initially bought an Elgato Cam Link with the intent to livestream drawing using my DSLR. I had no end of issues with the device, you have to faff around and install their capture software before the computer even recognises the Cam Link, and my image kept freezing every few seconds despite it being a powerful PC, having it in a USB 3.0 slot and fast enough internet. While their customer service was very helpful, they were pretty slow in getting things sorted out and eventually I gave up and chalked it down to a faulty capture device, so I returned it.However with the Live Gamer HD 2 all I had to do was insert it into my PC and go. It automatically installed the drivers with no bloatware needed and it runs extremely well with Xsplit. Zero stuttering or freezing. Comes with a HDMI cable and male-male aux cable included too! I'm very happy and wish I'd saved myself the trouble and gone for this one in the first place!

If you're capturing off something modern like a PS4 or a Switch you'll probably be fine with this card, but what attracted me to it was it listed support for 480 and 576 resolutions, as well as interlaced video at "up to 60Hz". To me this suggests it's good for capturing off older systems where HDMI was an afterthought, or where you're doing RGB->HDMI conversion. This is simply not the case.Rather than "up to 60Hz" it's actually "can only do exactly 50Hz or 60Hz and nothing else. It can't even capture the completely standard NTSC 59.97Hz, and my hardware is doing 49.97 or 50.05Hz and it can't capture these either, all you get is a "signal out of range" message generated by the hardware. No-where on the datasheet or advertising for this card is this limitation mentioned.The driver for it is the standard Microsoft UVD driver so almost zero configurability if it doesn't work for you, and that gets me onto the even more annoying thing about this card.It's sold as a PCIe card and I bought it because I was getting fed up of USB capture jank, but this is actually a USB capture device soldered onto the same board as an old Renesas USB3 controller, aka the worst USB3 controller ever made, giving you the worst of both worlds.In conclusion, if you're capturing off older devices, this card is no good for you, and if you're capturing off modern devices, there are 4K cards out there for not much more that offer better future proofing. I can't see any reason why anyone should buy this card in 2023!

I bought this to stream flight sim, I had previously used xplit etc straight to youtube but there was lag in the stream I asked people for advice and they said my pc spec was fine for streaming without a card but I bought one anyway, Initially I thought the product was very good it did seem to speed things up but when I took a closer look at the quality of the video and compared to shadow play etc I saw that the software I already had provided a much better picture quality, I don't think this is a fault of the device I just think it's how it was designed, it doesn't quite look like 1080p to me, (I have a 4k monitor ) that maybe the reason but I decided to return mine because I was getting better results without spending the money on this. I recommend it if your screen is a 1080p resolution but if it's higher I wouldn't buy it because it's just going to annoy you with the fact it's not as crisp as your used to.

First of all, let me start by saying that you don't need to download any software, aside from the drivers to use this. It runs out of the box with OBS and XSplit. The bundled software is in many ways inferior to those platforms, however, for capturing and streaming my Nintendo Switch, it's absolutely flawless. Silky smooth 60FPS gameplay when in docked mode. At least, on those titles that support 60FPS.

easy to install and use, connected and playing well

This capture card plugs and plays right out of the box, no software or drivers needed. Picture quality is fantastic, very easy to set up, 10/10