This is a great little capture card. It was physically easy to install, but getting it paired with OBS took some time. Whether that’s my hinky laptop’s problem or the card being a more affordable card I don’t know. I’ve had this for about 3 weeks and after I was able to clear the problems with OBS up, it’s worked great. If you switch your USB ports around, you will have to reboot your system for OBS to find it again, or so that was my experience.
I have two USB hub devices on my laptop, one hub is used for its HDMI port for my TV, and the other is a pure 7-slot USB hub as my laptop doesn’t have a lot of USB ports. This capture card is plugged into my Anker 7-slot hub. It works great there. I DID have to buy a USB 3.0 cord from JSAUX as the USB cord that came with the card was horribly short, like 1.5 feet. For my card setup, one HDMI slot goes from the card to the TV and one goes from the Nintendo Switch to the card. Using this card, I am still able to use my TV as an extra monitor for my PC (I have an HDMI cord plugged in directly to my PC from the TV) AND play the game from my much bigger TV (courtesy of this capture card’s HDMI port to my TV). No splitter is required with my setup.
I will caution people to pay attention to the heat level on the card if they are leaving it lying flat on a surface. The card will get a little warm. This is why my picture shows the card suspended between the capture card and my USB hub. It keeps the card cooler. I keep a small desk fan on my Switch to keep it from overheating as well.
One Note: Windows seems to be updating my Windows 11 PC furiously this week. While before, OBS only had one “USB Device” option in Properties for my Video Capture Device, it now comes up with 2; one greyed out and one bright white. If you get a black screen when you start up OBS, click on the grey USB Device selection under Video Capture Device and it will bounce around to something else at which time you can select the bright white “USB Device” in the properties area. Don’t know why this is occurring and again it may just be my laptop manufacturer causing the problem, but if you have this black screen problem going back in and selecting the USB Device again might solve it.
If you are participating in a challenge and need a way to capture your Switch play to your PC to record it, this is a great little card that is incredibly affordable. I won’t know how durable it is until sufficient time passes, but for now, it’s doing its job very well. =)
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