I got a Wireless ModMic and attached it to my wireless HTC Vive to more easily record myself when playing virtual reality games. This is my second time ever playing Phasmophobia in VR!
Wireless ModMic Test #1 | Phasmophobia VR
My PC (August 2016 - Now)
These are the specs of the PC I started using in August 2016.
| CPU | Intel Core i7 3770 |
| Motherboard | Asus P8P67 Pro REV 3.0 |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz |
| Video Card | EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti |
| Storage | Western Digital 2TB Black HDD, Samsung 840 Pro 128 GB SSD, Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB SSD |
| Optical Drive | Asus DRW-24B1ST |
| Case | Fractal Design R3 |
| Power Supply | Corsair CMPSU-850HX 850 Watt |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 10 Home Premium 64-bit (OEM) |
PlayStation VR, Luke Cage, and the Apple Watch | Vlog #6
PlayStation VR, Luke Cage, and my new Apple Watch are just a few of the topics I discuss on my walk to check the mail on this unusually warm autumn day.
PlayStation VR, iPhone 7 Plus, and Doggies | Video Log #4
Take a walk with three doggies and me as I talk about PlayStation VR, my new iPhone 7 Plus, T-Mobile, Microsoft support, Hurricane Matthew, and more in my fourth video log.
Gear VR: The S6, Note 5, and S7
I use the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Note 5 with the Gear VR and compare them, and look at the upcoming S7 in terms of virtual reality.
#2: The Elusive Audio Cable
Join my search for a vital audio cable that allows me to finally use my PlayStation 3 again. Just in time to play through some Metal Gear Solid games before Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain comes out!
NVIDIA ShadowPlay and OBS NVENC Comparison - Batman: Arkham Knight
I decided to finally test out NVIDIA's ShadowPlay recording feature as I've been looking for a solution for recording PC games at the same resolution (1080p) and framerate (30 - 60 FPS) as I am playing them with no perceptible drop in game performance and no choppiness in the video capture. I am very impressed with it. However, some games, such as Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death (which I just recently started), do not work with ShadowPlay, so I had to use Open Broadcaster Software's Nvidia NVENC encoder.
I wanted to see if there was much difference between recording with ShadowPlay or OBS + NVENC, so I recorded Batman: Arkham Knight using each. It's the most technically impressive game that I own. Currently, Arkham Knight does not officially support 60 FPS (though this can be edited in the game's files), so I played it at 30 FPS, with all settings maxed out/on. Until the game is patched, playing at 60 FPS could have resulted in framerate drops, and I wouldn't know if it was the game or my recording that caused it. I beat the game at 30 and had it stay fairly consistent.
Both recording solutions were set to 1080p, 60 FPS, with a bitrate of 50 Mbps. I do not see a perceptible difference between using ShadowPlay and using OBS + NVENC. Please note that YouTube's compression may degrade the quality of the recordings.
My PC at the time of this recording:
CPU: Intel Core i7 3770
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (OEM)
My PC (July 20th, 2015 - August 2016)
These are the specs of the PC I started using on July 20th, 2015.
| CPU | Intel Core i7 3770 |
| Motherboard | Asus P8P67 Pro REV 3.0 |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz |
| Video Card | EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti |
| Storage | Western Digital 2TB Black HDD, Samsung 840 Pro 128 GB SSD |
| Optical Drive | Asus DRW-24B1ST |
| Case | Fractal Design R3 |
| Power Supply | Corsair CMPSU-850HX 850 Watt |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (OEM) |
My PC (July 9th, 2015 - July 20th, 2015)
These are the specs of the PC I started using on July 9th, 2015 while I waited for my GTX 980 Ti to arrive from EVGA via their Step-Up program.
| CPU | Intel Core i7 3770 |
| Motherboard | Asus P8P67 Pro REV 3.0 |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz |
| Video Card | EVGA GeForce GTX 660 |
| Storage | Western Digital 2TB Black HDD, Samsung 840 Pro 128 GB SSD |
| Optical Drive | Asus DRW-24B1ST |
| Case | Fractal Design R3 |
| Power Supply | Corsair CMPSU-850HX 850 Watt |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (OEM) |
My PC (May 21st, 2015 - July 9th, 2015)
These are the specs of the PC I started using on May 21st, 2013 until I shipped off my 980 for 980 Ti via EVGA's Step-Up program on July 9th, 2015.
| CPU | Intel Core i7 3770 |
| Motherboard | Asus P8P67 Pro REV 3.0 |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz |
| Video Card | EVGA GeForce GTX 980 |
| Storage | Western Digital 2TB Black HDD, Samsung 840 Pro 128 GB SSD |
| Optical Drive | Asus DRW-24B1ST |
| Case | Fractal Design R3 |
| Power Supply | Corsair CMPSU-850HX 850 Watt |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (OEM) |