Well, it didn’t take me long to begin fussing with the new hardware. I’ve tested it out on a good deal of my game collection, and I’ve been loving the added performance. It didn’t take me long to see how it handled recording, streaming, and transcoding. It has exceeded every goal I was hoping to achieve.
It took under two minutes for it to render a 48 second 1080p @ 60FPS video. I’m liking this ratio and I hope it keeps up when I’m finally able to squeeze more video quality out of Sony Movie Studio 13 Platinum (Steam sale buy).
I’ve tested out the new hardware in Open Broadcast Software, and I’m just in awe at how much better it can do video work. I can now use OBS to record, have it look really good, and not kill my CPU power! I’m pretty stoked about that, but I can finally live-stream DCS World and not have it look like garbage every time I move my head in freetrack. Seriously, the pixelation that would happen just looked awful. I hid most of those streams on Youtube. Ah well, the latest DCS live-stream looked fantastic and ran just as well. I could use a better mic for them, but that’s not an immediate concern. I know it’s important, but it’s not going to happen for a bit.
Anyway, here is my first render on the new hardware. The footage quality should be improving from here on. The OBS recordings look a bit nicer in my opinion.