After all, that's why products like the Elgato Cam Link have been so popular with influencers over recent months. You're going to want to swap out whatever fancy USB webcam you've got and switch in a proper digital camera. There will come a point where, if you're serious enough about streaming on Twitch or Facebook Gaming or whatever other platform and integrate a facecam into your streams, that a $50 webcam just isn't going to be enough for your streams. Since the Live Gamer DUO will capture 1080P60 with HDR enabled, you're still going to get an incredible looking stream coming through this small capture device.

For most content creators that are going to stream directly to Twitch without making an archival backup, this won't be a problem. What the Live Gamer DUO lacks from the counterparts like the Live Gamer 4K is the ability to capture video at a higher resolution than just 1080P. There's no toggle switch on the card itself to switch the HDMI output, but honestly, I wouldn't want to be fumbling around behind my PC anyways. If you have two consoles hooked up to your Live Gamer DUO, please note that only the first input will be sent out to your television you'll need to manually swap the cables on the capture card if you want to send the second signal out instead. Much like AVerMedia's other line of capture devices, the passthrough going to your television or monitor won't be impacted and the primary input will go through to your display at 2160P with zero added latency. If you're running Aura Sync or other RGB software, the Live Gamer DUO can't be integrated into those lighting routines, looking slightly out of sync with the rest of your components unless you simply disable the onboard lighting. My same complaint from the Live Gamer 4K persists with the DUO: there's no way to sync these lighting effects with the other devices in your case. While not particularly bright or notable, it can either be set up to give you a visual readout of recording status, or if you want something with a little more aesthetic, can be set to one of a few different cycling color effects within RECentral. Once again, the LED lighting from the Live Gamer 4K returns in AVerMedia's latest capture card. AVerMedia's capture cards aren't typically too CPU/GPU intensive but they do take up quite a bit of RAM to handle both your game and capture software simultaneously. Pretty modest specs for capturing 1080P60 on a dedicated streaming PC but you should certainly keep in mind that you'll probably want to exceed at least a GTX 1060 if you want to game and capture at the same time. You'll need a motherboard with an open PCI-Express Gen 2 x4 slot for the interface and at least an i5-3330 or R圜PU along with a graphics card more powerful than a GeForce GTX 650. The Live Gamer DUO marks AVerMedia's second return (in recent years) to an internal capture card, requiring similar specs to run as the Live Gamer 4K. And I'm not just talking about the same quality of video you'd get off of your fancy webcam with the Live Gamer DUO, you can integrate a proper DSLR or MFT camera for a professional looking headshot as you play.

If you're savvy enough to hotkey in scene changes in your capture software, you could effortlessly transition from full-screen gameplay to an overlay that includes your digital camera for picture-in-picture. While only the first one is passed through to a secondary monitor, both HDMI inputs can be accessed simultaneously and treated as separate video sources. With the Live Gamer DUO, AVerMedia has come up with an internal capture card that will let console gamers improve not only their game content but also their social content too.Īs the name might imply, the Live Gamer DUO is the first capture card I've gotten my hands on that features two simultaneous HDMI inputs. The AVerMedia Live Gamer 4K that I reviewed two years ago was an impressive PCIe card that could handle recording up to 1080P240 HDR at a cheaper price than its closest Elgato counterpart. AVerMedia continues to be one of the chief innovators when it comes to creating video capture devices aimed at content creation.

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