The 1slur

Okay, so I used to use an Elgato HD60S and an Elgato HD, one for retro, one for modern stuff, and while the HD had a very roundabout process to get 480i into 480p60, it worked generally pretty well.

Well, "well" is subjective, I have to catch the .ts file before the Elgato app deletes the temp file and then manually convert to mp4 with QTGMC deinterlacing thanks to Hybrid and that's all done over NVENC so I'm kinda stuck on Nvidia hardware oopsie

But I finally have the money to buy the the StarTech USB3HDCAP, also known as one of the best capture cards on the market. You throw a signal at it and it should just workTM. I'm not going to lie, I'm VERY impressed by it and by how much of a bitch it was to get working, the driver disc makes 256-320x240p gameplay appear as if it's... 1440x240. And vertically cut in half. Ew.

That's fine, the latest StarTech drivers are actually up to date relative to the hardware and they install and magically work out of the gate, version 1.1.0.193!

hold up why is the HD60S in OBS now loading the USB3HDCAP driver?

fucking both of them use CY3014, they have similar hardware under the hood

which means I now have to face the following:

The HD60S no longer works right out of the box, it needs fiddling

Sometimes it just refuses to grab video

Sometimes it just refuses to latch onto my capture software, both Elgato's and OBS's

My PC blue screens now randomly because of course OBS has no idea which CY3014 driver to use, even though Windows actually figured that shit out fine

I fucking love technology.

I'm honestly tempted to drop the USB3HDCAP entirely from my PC and get back to a stable computer, and I guess install that shit on my laptop? Make that the "weird video game signal" bitch and just rely on the Elgato HD. Here's hoping it has USB3, but it should.

this of course is exacerbated by my issue of "my PC takes anywhere from 2 to 25 minutes to boot" so you know, fuck playing with drivers if possible (this is an unrelated issue that I think is caused by my SAS card and like 20 devices over USB)