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Review on ๐ŸŽฎ Plugable Performance NIX Video Game Capture Card 1080P 60FPS with USB C & USB 3.0 - HDMI Passthrough for Monitoring. Windows, Linux, macOS Compatible. OBS Streaming Ready! by Jeff Dabney

Revainrating 1 out of 5

Ehh, close, but it's coming back.

1080p60 recording with this card will result in completely degraded color reproduction. Actually also 720p60. If you try to capture something at 60fps, whether it's in OBS, vMix or xSplit, you'll end up with very different color rendition. I saw on the manufacturer's website that they gave some explanations on this. The Windows UVC driver is to blame. I'm sure this statement is made in good faith but the bottom line is Magewell and Elgato UVC's don't have this limitation, I can feed them any resolution up to 1080p60 and it just works. Why shouldn't it be here? Also, even at 30p I had very bad color banding and artifacts in the opening part of Breath of the Wild, a test five minutes later with my CamLink showed no such issues (I don't recommend CamLink btw). I've tweaked every conceivable setting and checked out the FAQs on their website, but after a whole evening I've still not been able to get this thing to work as it should. I have 6+ years of experience in professional broadcast production and have mixed almost everything on Windows based setups so I have used a lot of recording gear. I had high hopes for this, but it's a bit off.

Pros
  • Wide Range
Cons
  • Zero