I've used the Dazzle DVC 100 since 2014 and want to try something better. Now that I take speedrunning and frame counts more seriously I've noticed that the Dazzle is devouring my frames. It makes frame counting my own runs actually impossible.
I mostly play NES stuff like Castlevania, but I dabble into PS2 games once in awhile. I'm willing to spend money, but I don't think I need the latest and greatest cap card, just something serviceable (and preferably 60fps).
I've only ever known the Dazzle life, so I'm not even sure what other cap cards exist, or are worth getting. Advice appreciated
gv-usb2. It’s $40 and works flawlessly. Best SD capture card out there if you hook it up with s-video and a decent powered splitter. You can usually find it on Amazon, sometimes it’s under IO Data gv-usb2.
The driver install is in Japanese but downloading them can be aided with any browser page translate and the actual install is only 2 clicks and there are countless guides online (plus messing it up doesn’t do anything bad, it just installs a second set of drivers).
It's my understanding there isn't much difference between the gv-usb2 and the dazzle in terms of quality. I would love to be proven wrong. Can't google anything about it unless I brush up on my Nippon.
Think a step above that, though not sure if it's even worth it.
I just don't want my raw video to have spooky missing frames, which might be more of an FPS issue than anything else? Idk
Idk, I’ve heard from multiple people gv-usb2 beats our dazzle in their experience but I have no personal experience there. As for the frame issue, that might be something else other than the dazzle eating them but it’s hard to say without testing.
Running the video through amerec instead of straight into OBS.
The video you see above from FurryWulfz shows why it matters.
Well time to buy a gv-usb2 then Kappa
But if you already do that then yeah, idk what the Dazzle is doing to mess up frames like that.
The raw video is just shit. Trying to frame count it is ass.
I went with the gv-usb2, and possibly bite the bullet farther down the line for real hardware
