Windows Game Mode

This was reported a few months back, I really most who spoke about it , one jauz2cents, reckoned it was a gimmick as the os (w10) hads such little overheads today, you’ll get hardly any benifit at all. Especially if your a gamer with a semi decent rig. The worse your rig the better the benifts, but again it would be marginal.

One concern tjey  had was most kids today copture all their game play, and have Skype running plus a browser, so would all this work I’m gsme mode?

My kid is definitely in that category , he actually asked for a card to capture his console play to In 1080p, for Xmas, but I never got him one. Given he got a tablet, phone and bmx. But no dount he will get one sooner than later. Their price is falling month by month also.

Maybe the future of capturing PC gaming is on a cpturs card, as capturing gameplay had a big hit on preformanc. For example an hour of gameplay can take up 30gb plus of raw data depending on quality and codecs used.so handing that off to an external card with a ssd is far cheaper than a CPU upgrade.

It’s not good enough, sont has offed simple game capture once day one, it is simple capture and upload, it doesn’t allow for editing or rendering after the fact, plus you can’t do pip, mix mutiple sound channels  in and out, they  need game sound, Skype in (or team speak) plus mic in and the ability to fade in and out. What the kids do today, would of been enough to get you a job at the been or sky 10 years ago. And this is all while concentrating on gaming.

Then after that he sits down edits it and render it overnight, and uploads before school, privatly youTube, then they spend lunch reviewing each others highlight clips.

So simple capture and upload is not what the kids do. It’s ok to grab something spare of the moment, but it doesn’t sell the console. It’s like box ticking, one console had it so the other, does it a bit better and so on.

plus his circle is Sony this time around. They was 360 last time out. Don’t was stonger out the gate, and cheaper buy £100, and the offer thdir fantastic PlayStation network library subscription service that makes it super cheap and means I only need to buy 1 game a year, FIFA . Which falls on his birthday each year. :good:

Shawdow play is actually quite good, it lacks support for many games but the ones it does support wout well. Though you still need a virtual sound splitter to capture extra ch of sound coming in.

Skype and your mic. For this you can use voice meter, great free programmed. Lets you nap only capture mimtiple incoming streams, but also lets you manage them on the fly for if you gaming and broadcasting live.

Shadow paly is a simple solution but OBS is better far superior, and free, but my kids prefer Dxrory, which I think was £15 . We decided on Dxrory as the quality was good and with the right codex we could get for file sizes down to a more manageable level.

There are many video capture software solutions ,  and they are all great on the right hardware. What works on mine won’t work you and vice versa. PC are finicky by nature!

Shadow play is good to keep running ontop of your primary setup, have it set to minus 30s , and bind it to a key you never use, usexit to grab moments. That way you don’t have to make notes of time stamps to remember when ‘that thing happend’ .

Get your kid to learn blender to mix and render his videos, my kid learnt sony vagus at school and has a licence for that. However vagus is expensive. So he best get saving up of post school.