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I resorted to turning off HDR in the Xbox system settings and that did improve things. Colours became washed out and everything felt overly bright and lacking in detail. The Live Gamer Extreme 3 supports HDR in passthrough, however it can only capture in SDR and the tone mapping on offer was underwhelming. Xbox One directly in to the monitor's HDMI socket also fine and. Xbox One in to the HDMI in on the capture card displays and streams fine on the PC monitor (which is connected by DVI) 2. HDMI input is working fine, but the pass through to the HDMI output isn't.

That likely says more about my machine than the card itself, but it’s a point to note for streamers looking for a solution without a gaming PC. Having a bit of trouble with the Avermedia Live Gamer HD. The same was true playing off the preview in RECentral and OBS, though trying to record 4K30fps via my Surface Laptop 3 caused massive input lag and AV sync problems. Live Gamer Extreme, AVerCapture HD and C985 Live Gamer HD are some of the most popular capture cards from Aver Media. The variable refresh rate support works well and I noticed no artefacts or screen tearing while gaming. The passthrough signal looked great though, with zero noticeable latency I could comfortably game without considering there was an encoder in the middle. After some settings and trial and error, I found my options were no passthrough to capture in 4K or to drop the Xbox to 1440p to get passthrough and a capture signal simultaneously.

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At full 4K resolution, the card refused to let me use HDMI passthrough and capture at the same time, greeting me with an awfully unhelpful ‘Not Supported’ message in RECentral and OBS. Paired with an Xbox Series X, however, the Live Gamer Extreme 3 didn’t fare so well. Even without using passthrough and playing via the OBS preview it replicated a normal TV experience well and I’ve got no complaints with what it output to stream.

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Taking a 1080p signal from a Nintendo Switch the card was rock solid with no input lag and clean visuals.

At the lower end of intensity, it performed reliably and admirably. It seemed to settle in and the issues faded in time, and, of course, this issue could be on my PC side rather than the card itself, but I had no similar blips when using the Elgato HD60 X.Įven when things were all playing nicely the Live Gamer Extreme 3 was a frustrating hit-and-miss experience. My troubles continued for around a week too with the Live Gamer Extreme 3 continually preventing Windows from booting if it was connected before powering on. Plugging it in for the first time wreaked havoc with my other USB devices which all panicked and then reconnected with varying degrees of success. I got off to a rocky start with the GC551G2. (Image credit: Future/Alex Berry) Performance