hey uh what happened to all my footage
in the arc video uh what footage well
the the graphics card installed footage all the gaming footage all that stuff
there's just one little snippet at the end what what happened uh
the card turned on fans are full blast I
think this might actually be an arc problem yeah this is okay weird but
interesting game streaming on Arc is basically broken now this message from
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when Linus switched his personal gaming rig to use an arc he had the problem of
not having the properly sized power connectors well that happened to me too
I had two solid eight pin connectors for an eight and six pin graphics card I did
not want to bother with re-pinning my custom cables so I did the next best
thing I had this spare 1200 watt antec
power supply from back in the ncx days and I had no idea if it was even going
to power on after sitting in my garage for all these years but we needed it to
start playing and my plan for it is I
have jumped it so this is going from uh
pin 4 pin five just jumped it with a little the paper clip and I'm going to
plug in this guy just into the graphics card
because I am too sick and too lazy to undo all of my
power runs right now I don't want to completely swap the power supply it were
if it's janky I love it it's mine and you can't take it from me not even if
the PSU was clearly stolen from work time to game almost Linus wasn't quite ready yet so I
installed my drivers and started poking at Intel art control their first party
graphics card companion app thing what a
nightmare uh if I click away from it it
just closes it didn't it didn't go anywhere it's not it's not accessible it
just closes UI elements behind the translucent parts of the window would
still like highlight and interact with your mouse even though you couldn't actually select them and you can't drag
the window around what why oh of course
it's an overlay at all points in time
for no reason neither NVIDIA nor AMD are
using just an overlay GeForce experience and Radeon adrenaline both have full
applications that can run in the background and just be moved around the
screen if you want why would you start with just an overlay I actually hate it
so much and that's that's not just it
the driver page is just a hyperlinked picture taking you to Intel's download
page what you can't update it through
the app that's like the whole reason people install GeForce experience
performance monitoring is wacky because it doesn't run in the background
highlights only work in supported games and not that many of them to be clear
and the in-game overlay just stays up
all the time regardless of what's open and there's no history if you close the
main overlay the in-game overlay doesn't record things it just shows it in real
time whatever it's fine nobody gets it right
the first time let's just focus on the game experience Luke come on okay the
first one we tried was Halo infinite and honestly for the most part it ran pretty
well FPS dropped for a few seconds oh interesting uh I'm still at zero drop
frames
377 0 weird anomalies massive blooming in
both the menus and the loading screens but once we got into a match it cleared
up maybe this was Halo maybe Arc hard to
tell both feel kind of chanky sometimes either way weird
nothing game breaking performance was okay it seemed like a steady 60 plus FPS
in the match we played and I personally didn't really have any issues so we
hopped over to Anno 1800 to see if we could figure it out it looks like game
streaming on Arc is basically broken now I'm not using the av-1 encoder right so
maybe the av1 encoder would do a better job but because it's not supported on
major streaming platforms like say for example twitch yet there's no real
purpose for it yet this whole time I was encoding through x264 on my CPU and
everything was perfectly fine no drop frames great quality stream performance
was all right but Linus was streaming with h.264 on his GPU and it was causing
all sorts of problems my GPU encoding
just outright crashed so I'm back with CPU encoding who would have thought that
the best pairing for an Intel GPU is an
AMD CPU with lots of cores
yeah this is not running too great and
it kept just actually completely cutting
out pretty much the whole time but the game was still playable for me at least
I panned around some open water and Arctic towns then checked out a much
Fuller and complete city with a ton of stuff going on and it was totally fine
it feels fine now guys like 100 it feels fine so we moved on to Untitled Goose
game which we played through Steam remote play just like you should
consider moving on from YouTube to Floatplane where we've got plenty of
exclusives and behind the scenes content things went perfectly fine with our
squawking geese for the first little bit until my game started turning into an
awful watercolor painting my screen is
like messed up really super super messed up I don't
know why I'm only like mentally registering this now okay it fixed there
we had no idea what could be causing this until we realized Linus was hosting
a remote play together session the best
part about all of this was when we checked advanced settings and it said
encoding was enabled on NVIDIA AMD and
Intel igpu because it hadn't been updated for Arc yet we tried to fix it
by disabling Hardware decoding on my side but it wasn't until Linus disabled
Hardware accelerated encoding on his PC that it actually resolved the issue I
then hosted a game of Ultimate Chicken horse through Remote Play so we could
make sure it wasn't just Linus and this
is remote play together but uh we're not using steam we're using a PowerPoint if
you just want a game on Ark with no streaming of any kind then yeah so far
it works we had one issue in disc Jam where the game wouldn't go past 720p
leaving us stuck in a resolution much older than the game itself but the
performance was pretty okay in the games we tried as long as it wasn't over
Remote Play since then I've tried out Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Anno 1800
Assassin's Creed Odyssey inscription slay the spire and quite a few other
games and had no major issues that other people didn't also have it sort of felt
like I was having more total issues than I feel like I would have had if I was on
my previous Titan RTX but there was no way to really prove that and in general
everything ran pretty okay I had one
hard crash that felt like it was similar
to what would happen if you had a driver crash on NVIDIA but the system didn't
recover from it at all like you would expect it to with a NVIDIA driver crash
where the pop-up comes in the corner the the application force closes all that
type of stuff it just black screened hard I had to hard power down my
computer bring it back up and then Event Viewer just had nothing there was no
information so I have no no idea what happened I maybe it was Arc maybe it was
something else I don't know the question then becomes how badly do you need GPU
encoding in 2023 I guess this is a 350
graphics card and right now you can get an RTX 3060 for about the same price and
the RX 6650 XT is cheaper at a little
over 300 bucks and both of these cards have significantly better Hardware
encoding at least right now
arcbos Major av-1 Performance which
looks as of right now to be the future of encoding so that's great right and
OBS can encode it now right wrong OBS has an nvic av1 encoder NVIDIA
only Intel's Hardware av1 encoding is
useless if you have no way to use it
don't buy anything based on the claims
of future benefits but all of that being
said the challenge isn't over yet maybe there's some light at the end of this
poorly encoded tunnel apparently Intel has reached out to Linus with a new
driver that might fix VR so stay tuned for our final thoughts in part three and
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like this or didn't like this let me know down below it's been a long time
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check out part one so you can see some of the hilarious problems that might
come up when you're doing something as simple as just swapping to a brand new
graphics card