I'm wondering if I should get a capture card to stream to Twitch with my console via OBS. I fear that my PC is too bad and that it can't stream the game smoothly. So far I haven't come across an answer that answers whether a capture card enables streaming from a console with a bad PC, i.e. Whether the capture card processes the performance and not the PC.
Sure, as long as the PC only has to encode the stream, it doesn't even need that much power.
The PC should actually only have the power to calculate image data with OBS, i.e. To stream with it. You could possibly tell me the hardware of the PC and I could estimate whether that would work. LG
Okay that sounds good! My PC has an AMD A8 6600 APU processor with Radeon HD Graohics, 3900 MHz, 2 cores with 4 processors. Just thought you had to have the performance on the PC in order to smoothly stream the respective game that you are playing on the console.
Only the console needs the power for the game itself. When it comes to PC hardware, I'm not sure whether the encoder can do that, but you can try it out. Then I wish you good luck with streaming.
Thank you for your helpful answers! Very positively surprised by the platform that it works here without a cover. In other words, the game may not be able to be streamed smoothly, even with a 160 euro capture card?
There might be a lower resolution in the stream every now and then or you might get slight framedrops, but I can't say for sure. You will find out then. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that everything works. LG
Thank you and have a nice day!
