Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:35 am
Most of the bad reviews are down to poor drivers at the outset. The latest 10.4.1 drivers still don't fix all the problems though.
With the latest drivers the fan is virtually silent which was one of the big complaints, it now also sees RGB input sources such as PS4's and Xbox ones which was another of the big complaints. The auto-detect also seems to work a lot better now.
We've only tested on PC's, but at the moment I seem to still have 3 issues with the card.
1. With the last update they seem to have broken support in Adobe software, so you either have to use earlier drivers which puts the fan noise back or wait for the fix (BM have told me they have fixed the issue and will release new drivers 'shortly')
2. I get no auto-detection of UHD sources through HDMI. HD sources work fine just not UHD. The same sources work fine on other BM 4K cards in the same system so it's definitely down to the drivers and the IP4K.
3. On the systems we've tested we still find that the card works better if it's put in a PCI-e slot that uses bus-lanes that go through the chip-set and not through the CPU. So on a Z97 board if it goes through the chip-set we only seem to have the problems mentioned above, but when going through the CPU bus-lanes although the card no longer drops out like it used to I find the auto-detect doesn't seem to work. If the software you use allows you to set your capture format that seems to work, but it no longer auto-detects the source.
As to the built in TBC. It does seem to work, but is no replacement for a quality TBC. It can handle my tapes that I couldn't get to work before, but if your tapes are really old and degraded I suspect it will still have issues.
DVC Built Clevo P775DM3-G Laptop with UHD screen, 7700K CPU@4.9Ghz, Geforce GTX 1060 6GB GPU, G-Sync UHD screen, 500GB M.2 Primary, 1x 480GB SSD, 1x1TB M.2, 1x 2TB Video drives.
Building Bespoke Video Editing systems for over 16 years