Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Luke’s updates on the Arc Challenge!”.
You can buy an Intel Arc with your five thousand miles. No, no! You got that for nothing and I don’t think wants to keep it I’ll. Go back to my other card. You think so it’s sitting on my desk ready to go yeah, it’s actually! Okay! I can I don’t want to cannibalize our final episode, but there’s things I could say yeah just yeah I’ll talk about it. I’Ve got VR working, oh cool, oh working, actually working yeah, sweet, Okay! I uh. I figured out some of the problems I was having with Halo infinite in the first episode. First episode.
Second episode: I don’t know uh, but I talked about part two of the first episode yeah yeah. I talked about blooming that was happening in the menus um. I figured out, I figured out that basically any game that I can find that has a reflection. I have not tried enough games.
This is not a blanket statement, blah blah. The games that I have tried that have a Reflections option in the video settings will have issues right, just turn it off and it’s fine. But then you don’t have Reflections you do. I don’t know how I have no idea what’s happening.
I turned off Reflections in Halo. I absolutely still have Reflections thoroughly tested yeah but there’s different ways of documenting reflection, so I think it’s having issues with um Ray tracing Reflections. Oh, I think that’s what’s going on. I have not dove into it enough.
That might be completely incorrect. I’M sorry! Okay. There was a comment under part, two of part, one yeah um. That was real by the way that intro is actually what happened well, except I wasn’t actually mad about it, but yeah, but like for real, the video went up, and neither I nor Luke I haven’t seen an edit of it and uh.
We were like yo speaking of which, yes, there was like problems with the edit of the second one. There was stuff edited in that like didn’t happen like what uh like I talked about how it black screened once um and like how it acted in a certain way, and then there was a blue screen put on screen that had a specific error code in it, And stuff, so people in the comments were like wait. What and they they thought that I did a great job of identifying what the problem was, because the error code did have to do with GPU failure. But I was like this was: what happened to me was a black screen. It did not blue screen at any point in time, usually when it would blue screen, it would show up in Event Viewer. So my problem was that it didn’t show up in Event Viewer. So this is what happens when we kind of take like random projects like this and inject them into a video pipeline. That is not really designed for Randomness um, okay. Well, there was a few other things similar to that where what was shown on screen was not what I was actually talking about: okay, um, but yeah there was. There was comments under the video talking about how OBS 29 beta 1 um had released and that had support for av1 encoding through Intel cool.
So I was like. Oh okay, that’s cool! I don’t feel bad about what I said in the video, because it’s a beta, but I should try this out for the next article. That totally makes sense cool.
I did so um. It doesn’t do it for streaming right yeah, because the platform has to support av1 ingesting so yeah, so it just does it for recording yeah but um, but when opening is still interesting, oh well, no, it’s just it’s interesting that they have it. I would still knock them down a little bit because nvidias came out with the launch of a new card right. Intel’S did not yeah.
Intels is still not out it’s in beta right um and it is super temperamental. I thought it didn’t work at all, because I selected it and then I went down a rabbit hole of like half an hour trying to like read documentation online to figure out. If I was using the right thing and all this different kind of stuff, I was using the right thing. It just errors like 70 of the time yeah. But if you just keep clicking it and just dismissing the errors, eventually, it will work and when it does work, it actually works great. It works really really well. Okay, recording in av1 with Intel Arc has been fantastic. I recorded a bunch of Halo gameplay, it’s really good. It’S genuinely really really good um, but yeah super buggy still in beta only for recording so like if you wanted this card for a streaming card, not applicable.
Currently, what I said about don’t buy things for future promises is still entirely yeah valid but and uh. My VR driver is an alpha, not beta private Alpha, but it’s working yeah. So that’s cool. So that’s something.
There’S a lot of stuff like the av-1 recording was honestly like it surprised me how good it was. Oh yeah av-1 is like it also was stunning how it just didn’t impact my gameplay performance at all. Okay! Well, that’s better than what we were able to say about h264.
I was like wow. This is really good. Okay, like the future of Intel. Gpus me testing that it really made me think, like I’m, really excited for battle, mage, yeah or Celestial or Celestial or whatever. I’M really excited about the future, because this av1 recording is really good and honestly, once I turned off Reflections, it was working is a 350 card that was taking notoriously bad for performance, Halo, infinite and doing pretty okay.
Okay: here’s a wild take is Intel entering the GPU market and being even worse what it finally takes for people to just Overlook amd’s flaws, because I was thinking you’re talking about this you’re going blah blah blah Arc, blah blah blah blah arc Arc, blah blah av1 Arc blah blah blah av1 Arc arc Arc, and I’m kind of sitting here going yeah, that’s nice, but, like you know, realistically Nvidia is still gon na keep 70 or 80 discrete market share or whatever else, and then I was thinking you’re talking about the av1 encoder And I’m like yeah, oh, you know what you can come to think of it. We haven’t seen uh amd’s our dna3 av1 encode engine yet and that’s coming really soon and like I’m like excited and I’m like. Oh I’m like really excited – and you know – hey, I’m just kind of desperate for a GPU other than a Nvidia GPU to be excited for yeah and our didn’t really live up to the hype that I had built up for myself and B.
I’M sitting here going is my excitement relative to what you’re talking about it. Is that type of thing where, like one alternative, is often not enough? You need like an army of Alternatives so that people consider yeah so not too many, not too many, then it’s just like Choice, paralysis or whatever yeah, but you need you need multiple Alternatives so that you you actually care about them at all. Um electronic AMD AMD Engineers have infiltrated Intel and created Arc gpus to boost AMD public perception, confirmed um but yeah. I don’t know it’s uh. Once you can stream with av1 yeah, which will happen. Oh yeah, that’ll have to twitchell.
Twitch has probably been working on it for years. They just need to turn it on yeah like finish it and turn it on YouTube as well, like they’ll figure it out so once that is a possibility if the difference in performance between Intel and Nvidia stays the same non. What the oh yeah wow! That was a little random. I don’t know how that even happened, but anyways um. I could definitely see streamers using it, especially not ones that just like have infinite money. Oh yeah, that’s a 350 card that, if that av1 encoder was doing streaming, that would be the way to do it.
Yeah like unquestionably yeah the quality is so good, yeah effortlessly like it’s. It would be super super impressive. If platforms could use it. So it’s a it’s again one of those things where, like I’m kind of excited about the Next Generation, Because by the time the next Generation comes out, maybe the industry will have moved forward and more platforms will accept av1 and keto says apparently, YouTube will ingest av1. Already, I don’t know about live, I don’t think live.
I I’m pretty sure you can upload a VOD, that’s included in av1, but there’s no compelling reason to do it because you can upload a VOD and code it at any bit rate. You want um. So the main advantage of av1 is its quality advantages at low bit rates, so the real benefit is is streaming. I did do very high bit rate recordings through everyone just to see how it would hit the card and it handled it.
Amazingly. Well, that’s cool! I did really really high bitrate av1 recordings, while I was playing Halo infinite and I felt no noticeable performance impact on gameplay. That’S super cool. It was like it was.
It was actually really good, but again I keep going back to the you can’t stream with it. So that will help some people sure yeah some people that do local recording, but I think that is a subset of a subset um. So I don’t know .