hi...my son wants to use livesplit on his ps4, can someone please tell me how this is possible with an idiots guide, i know he needs a capture card but what are the set up guides on how to do this....many thanks.....

You cannot use LiveSplit natively on a PS4, it is a Windows application that runs on a PC.

There is also no universal setup guide for capture cards. Every capture card is slightly different in terms of what drivers they need, or how to use them depending on a number of factors including whether it's internal or external for example. Your best bet is to break this down into steps and find online tutorials for each step:

Step 1: Find a capture card that fits your budget and look up a video on how to set it up/use it. Step 2: Find a tutorial on OBS to see how to set that up. Step 3: Find a tutorial on LiveSplit to see how to use that.

We can try to help you along the way on these forums, there are dozens of threads here on this very forum that talk about what capture cards people recommend based on budgets, but a lot of these things have much better in-depth video guides on YouTube already. Those are your best bet for learning how to configure all of this stuff together into a streaming setup. There are plenty of tweaks you can make along the way to the setup, but those are the three basic steps.

For PS4, you don't need a capture card btw.

You can do one of two things natively without having to buy anything other than your PS4 and a PC.

Option 1, which is probably more like what you are trying to achieve - you can use PS Remote Play to play your PS4 on your PC and configure OBS to use that as the display capture, and run Livesplit, the exact same as if you were playing a PC game on the PC. Be aware, there can often be lag issues though.

Option 2, which is probably not what you are looking for, is using the PS4 to stream directly to Twitch/Youtube then putting in a livesplit overlay after the fact, in some kind of video editing software.

The capture card option is probably your best, but there are two other options available.

Hi. Many thanks for the replies, i would go for an external capture card one that's just plug and play without any drivers to install, any recommendations? under £50 , could you also tell me what plugs into what if i do this, do i need an hdmi splitter ??.. the laptop he will be using has 4gb ram is this enough to run the programme.. thanks for the help.....

hi.if i buy a capture card with just one hdmi in and one hdmi out what do i plug into what.............thanks..