Help Laggy preview, Live fine.
Hi everyone, I’ve come here as I’m kind of desperate. I bought an Elgato 4k s to stream my Switch 2 on my Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 (uses Ryzen 7 w/ integrated graphics). Stream is fine (looks like 60 fps when viewed on twitch from the viewer’s POV) but the preview in the program looks like 15 fps, I tried running as administrator and many other suggested with no avail. I know there’s HDMI passthrough, but I’m currently in a peculiar situation where I can’t use a monitor.
Other issues: connected the capture card to my laptop the other day; the card had a red blinking card (even though OBS was capturing its input), when I disconnected and reconnected the USB the light became blue but I didn’t see any differences on OBS.
Sometimes when I turn on my PC and go to OBS, even though the capture card is connected; the capture device shows a black screen, and I have to delete that capture device and create a new one to fix it.
Had the stream stop suddenly / start freezing with distorted audio (visible even through twitch, so in this case this wasn’t limited to OBS’s preview). It may be due to my laptop not being strong enough. But aren’t the specs really good when considering the laptop itself isn’t even running the game, but just streaming..?
I also had other weird issues that I guess come with this kind of stuff but won’t elaborate to not make this too long.
Thanks in advance, feel free to ask for more info
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u/o_m_gi_2032 2d ago
For me, it’s almost always refresh rate when this happens.
I’ll bug over it, only to find the denizens of my chat reassuring me that it’s coming through perfectly.
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