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hey uh what happened to all my footage

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in the arc video uh what footage well

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the the graphics card installed footage all the gaming footage all that stuff

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there's just one little snippet at the end what what happened uh

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the card turned on fans are full blast I

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think this might actually be an arc problem yeah this is okay weird but

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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

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not having the properly sized power connectors well that happened to me too

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I had two solid eight pin connectors for an eight and six pin graphics card I did

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not want to bother with re-pinning my custom cables so I did the next best

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thing I had this spare 1200 watt antec

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power supply from back in the ncx days and I had no idea if it was even going

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to power on after sitting in my garage for all these years but we needed it to

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start playing and my plan for it is I

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have jumped it so this is going from uh

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pin 4 pin five just jumped it with a little the paper clip and I'm going to

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plug in this guy just into the graphics card

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because I am too sick and too lazy to undo all of my

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power runs right now I don't want to completely swap the power supply it were

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if it's janky I love it it's mine and you can't take it from me not even if

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the PSU was clearly stolen from work time to game almost Linus wasn't quite ready yet so I

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installed my drivers and started poking at Intel art control their first party

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graphics card companion app thing what a

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nightmare uh if I click away from it it

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just closes it didn't it didn't go anywhere it's not it's not accessible it

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just closes UI elements behind the translucent parts of the window would

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still like highlight and interact with your mouse even though you couldn't actually select them and you can't drag

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the window around what why oh of course

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it's an overlay at all points in time

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for no reason neither NVIDIA nor AMD are

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using just an overlay GeForce experience and Radeon adrenaline both have full

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applications that can run in the background and just be moved around the

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screen if you want why would you start with just an overlay I actually hate it

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so much and that's that's not just it

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the driver page is just a hyperlinked picture taking you to Intel's download

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page what you can't update it through

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the app that's like the whole reason people install GeForce experience

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performance monitoring is wacky because it doesn't run in the background

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highlights only work in supported games and not that many of them to be clear

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and the in-game overlay just stays up

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all the time regardless of what's open and there's no history if you close the

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main overlay the in-game overlay doesn't record things it just shows it in real

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time whatever it's fine nobody gets it right

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the first time let's just focus on the game experience Luke come on okay the

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first one we tried was Halo infinite and honestly for the most part it ran pretty

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well FPS dropped for a few seconds oh interesting uh I'm still at zero drop

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frames

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377 0 weird anomalies massive blooming in

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both the menus and the loading screens but once we got into a match it cleared

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up maybe this was Halo maybe Arc hard to

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tell both feel kind of chanky sometimes either way weird

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nothing game breaking performance was okay it seemed like a steady 60 plus FPS

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in the match we played and I personally didn't really have any issues so we

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hopped over to Anno 1800 to see if we could figure it out it looks like game

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streaming on Arc is basically broken now I'm not using the av-1 encoder right so

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maybe the av1 encoder would do a better job but because it's not supported on

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major streaming platforms like say for example twitch yet there's no real

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purpose for it yet this whole time I was encoding through x264 on my CPU and

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everything was perfectly fine no drop frames great quality stream performance

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was all right but Linus was streaming with h.264 on his GPU and it was causing

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all sorts of problems my GPU encoding

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just outright crashed so I'm back with CPU encoding who would have thought that

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the best pairing for an Intel GPU is an

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AMD CPU with lots of cores

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yeah this is not running too great and

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it kept just actually completely cutting

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out pretty much the whole time but the game was still playable for me at least

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I panned around some open water and Arctic towns then checked out a much

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Fuller and complete city with a ton of stuff going on and it was totally fine

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it feels fine now guys like 100 it feels fine so we moved on to Untitled Goose

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game which we played through Steam remote play just like you should

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consider moving on from YouTube to Floatplane where we've got plenty of

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exclusives and behind the scenes content things went perfectly fine with our

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squawking geese for the first little bit until my game started turning into an

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awful watercolor painting my screen is

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like messed up really super super messed up I don't

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know why I'm only like mentally registering this now okay it fixed there

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we had no idea what could be causing this until we realized Linus was hosting

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a remote play together session the best

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part about all of this was when we checked advanced settings and it said

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encoding was enabled on NVIDIA AMD and

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Intel igpu because it hadn't been updated for Arc yet we tried to fix it

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by disabling Hardware decoding on my side but it wasn't until Linus disabled

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Hardware accelerated encoding on his PC that it actually resolved the issue I

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then hosted a game of Ultimate Chicken horse through Remote Play so we could

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make sure it wasn't just Linus and this

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is remote play together but uh we're not using steam we're using a PowerPoint if

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you just want a game on Ark with no streaming of any kind then yeah so far

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it works we had one issue in disc Jam where the game wouldn't go past 720p

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leaving us stuck in a resolution much older than the game itself but the

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performance was pretty okay in the games we tried as long as it wasn't over

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Remote Play since then I've tried out Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Anno 1800

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Assassin's Creed Odyssey inscription slay the spire and quite a few other

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games and had no major issues that other people didn't also have it sort of felt

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like I was having more total issues than I feel like I would have had if I was on

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my previous Titan RTX but there was no way to really prove that and in general

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everything ran pretty okay I had one

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hard crash that felt like it was similar

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to what would happen if you had a driver crash on NVIDIA but the system didn't

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recover from it at all like you would expect it to with a NVIDIA driver crash

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where the pop-up comes in the corner the the application force closes all that

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type of stuff it just black screened hard I had to hard power down my

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computer bring it back up and then Event Viewer just had nothing there was no

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information so I have no no idea what happened I maybe it was Arc maybe it was

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something else I don't know the question then becomes how badly do you need GPU

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encoding in 2023 I guess this is a 350

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graphics card and right now you can get an RTX 3060 for about the same price and

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the RX 6650 XT is cheaper at a little

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over 300 bucks and both of these cards have significantly better Hardware

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encoding at least right now

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arcbos Major av-1 Performance which

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looks as of right now to be the future of encoding so that's great right and

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OBS can encode it now right wrong OBS has an nvic av1 encoder NVIDIA

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only Intel's Hardware av1 encoding is

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useless if you have no way to use it

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don't buy anything based on the claims

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of future benefits but all of that being

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said the challenge isn't over yet maybe there's some light at the end of this

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poorly encoded tunnel apparently Intel has reached out to Linus with a new

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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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since I've hosted one of these but if you need something else to watch maybe

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check out part one so you can see some of the hilarious problems that might

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come up when you're doing something as simple as just swapping to a brand new

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