I have a beefy streaming PC, x870e TaiChi, 7950x, 96gb ram, 5090, elgato 4k pro. Gaming - 14900k + 4090.

I'm struggling recording at 1080p60, my gaming pc runs at 480hz, have set capture card as 60hz(least input lag). I play warzone & average 300fps. When i record on my streaming PC at 1080p60, i notice the bus load on the 5090 hits 100%. After a few minutes, the streaming pc starts skipping frames then the sytem freezes & i need to hard reset.

I have my gaming pc colour settings set to: screen 8bit, RGB full colour range. capture card set to 8bit, RGB(tried the other formats too, 422 does the same eventually), full colour & limited same.

i have tried quite a few different set ups on the streaming pc in OBS, set the EDID etc.

Note that the streaming pc - the 5090 is in pcie slot 1 & capture card slot 2, on this motherboard that means they split lanes at pcie gen 5 x8x8, i have a feeling that may be the cause?

Even at pciex8 there should be pleant of 1080p bandwidth?? Just not sure if my settings are wrong or if this is a hardware issue, any assistance would be appreciated.

https://imgur.com/a/0kvSQR4 (settings edit)

I want to record 1080p gameplay from my PS5 to my PC with OBS.
Is this card still usable?
How is the recording quality?

You're mid-song, someone drops into your Discord call, and now you're scrambling for a mixer, an OBS audio filter, or a second monitor just to turn the music down before they can hear you — and turn it back up two minutes later, if you remember. I got tired of doing this manually every single session, so I built SpeechDuck: a Stream Deck plugin that does real sidechain ducking, the same trick broadcast radio and podcast studios have used for decades, entirely from one key.

How it works: the moment your mic picks up your voice — or a conferencing app starts talking back — SpeechDuck automatically pulls your music/game/desktop audio down to whatever level you set, and brings it back up the instant you go quiet. One key arms/disarms the whole thing, and while it's running that same key doubles as a live level meter so you can see it's actually listening.

I use it every day just for my own listening, not only on stream — but this is genuinely one of those features that's way bigger for streaming than for solo use. Your viewers stop noticing your audio entirely, which is exactly the point: no more chat complaining that the music is drowning out you or your friends.

https://reddit.com/link/1vsnhka/video/i6fuoc436ckh1/player

What you can configure

• Triggers — any microphone, any output device, or a specific running app (Discord, a game, anything) — mix as many as you like. An app you add before it's even running gets picked up automatically the moment it launches.
• Targets — whatever gets turned down: music apps, games, or an entire output device, each with its own "volume while ducked" level.
• Attack / Sustain / Release — how fast it ducks, how long it stays down through pauses in speech, how gently it comes back up.
• Drag-to-set threshold directly on the live level meter — no guessing at numbers.
• Live meters everywhere — every trigger and target shows real signal level, in settings and right on the key.
• ~60Hz polling, so the reaction to your voice is effectively instant — no audible lag between the first syllable and the music dropping out of the way.
• 9 interface languages built into the settings panel (EN/DE/FR/ES/JA/KO/ZH-CN/ZH-TW/RU).

Get it

€9.99, one-time purchase, no subscription: https://marketplace.elgato.com/product/speechduck-ea695e8d-fe4e-4581-9319-ba1df369e49c

💻 GitHub (support, bug reports, feature requests): https://github.com/SquierStream/streamdeck-speechduck

Happy to answer questions about how the ducking/envelope math works, or take feature requests — this is actively maintained.

My other Stream Deck plugins, if you're into this kind of thing:

• 🎵 Now Playing for Dials — turns your Stream Deck+ touchscreen into a full-width media panel (album art, title, progress, shuffle/repeat) with volume on the dials: https://marketplace.elgato.com/product/now-playing-for-dials-cade76d9-d5ed-4f1d-a8d9-9a249cdf6a93
• 📊One Key System Monitor — five readings on a single key: CPU load and temperature, GPU load and temperature, and memory in use — as numbers, as bars, and as colour that shifts from green to amber to red while things heat up.: https://marketplace.elgato.com/product/one-key-system-monitor-be45d32e-38b8-4384-ad67-9d95e5f4ec59

One question for you all: would a free Demo version be worth putting together — 1 trigger, 1 target, English-only interface (so no multi-app setups or other languages, but honestly enough for the common "one mic ducks one thing" case)? Let me know if that's something people actually want before I put the work into shipping it.

DECK//SWITCH is control software for the Elgato Stream Deck on Linux, with

its own plugin system. It's free and MIT licensed, I wrote it, and it's been

my daily driver for a while. Version 1.0 is out today.

Keys, dials, pages

- Three actions per key: press, double press, hold.

- Dials either adjust continuously or fire a separate action per rotation

direction. Several assignments can share one dial and you switch between

them (dial stack).

- Multi actions: several steps in a row, pauses as steps of their own,

optionally looping. There's a toggle variant with two chains and a

different icon per direction.

- Pages and folders as deep as you like, drag & drop to sort. Swiping the

touch strip pages through your layout.

- Multiple decks at once, matched by serial number, so a deck keeps its

layout no matter which USB port it lands on.

Key images

Icon, label (font, weight, size, colour, alignment) and background (colour,

gradient, texture, image) per key. Animated GIFs play on the key itself.

Everything is rendered by the backend, so the preview in the editor is

pixel-identical to what the device shows. There's also a screen saver

spanning all keys and a separate touch strip wallpaper per page.

Decks without hardware

- Virtual deck — a deck as an overlay on the screen with a freely chosen

grid. No window frame, no Alt-Tab entry, and it deliberately never takes

keyboard focus, so a key that types a shortcut still types into whatever

app you came from. Summoned from anywhere with a global shortcut.

- Network deck — a deck someone else on your network drives from a

browser. Built for a moderator during a stream: password protected,

nothing to install on their side, and they can only press, not change

anything.

Plugins

Seven built in (audio via PipeWire, OBS, Discord, system actions, soundboard,

multi action, navigation) and two installable ones (Spotify, weather). Icon

sets are plugins too. There's an open Python API for writing your own, and

installing happens from a ZIP, a URL or a `streamdeck://` link.

Where it's honest to set expectations

- Arch and CachyOS. The setup script needs `pacman`. On other distros it

stops and lists the packages instead of pretending to detect something

nobody tested. It should work anywhere with those packages, but I haven't

tried.

- Tested on a Stream Deck + only. Grid size and dial count come from the

device report rather than a hardcoded table, so an XL, MK.2 or Mini should

work in key mode — but I've only ever tested those against simulated

device reports, not real hardware. If you have one, I'd genuinely like to

hear whether it works.

- Elgato's own plugins don't work here. Different plugin system, no

compatibility layer, and none is planned.

- Some pieces lean on KDE Plasma under Wayland: the overlay uses the layer

shell, and global shortcuts register with KDE. Everything else is

desktop-agnostic.

- One person, one machine, version 1.0.0. Expect rough edges.

[StreamController](https://github.com/StreamController/StreamController) also

exists and has been around longer — worth a look if this isn't your thing. I

wanted a different set of trade-offs and enjoy building the thing, so here we

are.

Code, screenshots and docs (English and German):

https://github.com/LabRaTox/Deck-Switch

Happy to answer anything, and I'll take bug reports gladly.

I need help fixing the audio issue I have with this elgato I just bought. It’s a HD60S and I have a Xbox Series S and for some reason it has a weird buzzing sound coming through the elgato. It’s only audible when I’m trying to stream. I don’t have anything that should be too loud and I followed countless tutorials. Reddit seems to be my last option. other than the audio, everything seems fine.

I just recently got myself the Wave Mic Arm Pro for my SM7b microphone and noticing a big amount of creaking and squeaking when turning the boom arm horizontally.

I don't feel like this is normal for a brand new unboxing?

I tried to record gameplay and i got a error message that read something like needs to update the drivers or nvidia video encoder might be used somewhere else, so i went to recording, video encoder and it was default to Automatic - RTX3080 and i switched it to Software (Built-In) to see if maybe that worked and it did for like 5 secs but then the image got scrambled, I reset my pc and tried putting it back to automatic and the image is still like that. How do I fix it? Im using a Neo capture card. And these are the current settings