Elgato HD60 S is a complete piece of garbage.
You are staring at the physical production of frustration and flushing money down the toilet.
I bought the Elgato HD60 S awhile ago for game capture and finally chose to use it to do so. Little did I know that trying to use a brand new piece of hardware for game capture would give me such an intense fucking headache.
This thing was brand new, so brand new that I had to take the shrinkwrap off of the box. That’s right people, it was sealed from the elements, sunlight, and anything else being able to effect its crappy slightly rounded boxy shape for the longest time.
I plugged everything in as instructed, installed the drivers and software, and BEHOLD!!!
…It doesn’t work.
The first thing I did was search the googles and duck duck gos for a tutorial on how to set this thing up to work in Windows 11, since I know it was intended to be used with Windows 10. BEHOLD!!! I found a multitude of articles on how to tweak, the first of which was to use a different cable.
“Hmm…” I thought, since I was using the cable that came with this diminutive piece of shit, “why would it require a different cable when I’m using the one it was intended to be used with?” – Well several posts said that the cable that it comes with just isn’t good enough for the thing. Great, thanks Elgato. So I got a shiny cable from my giant collection of cables and made damn sure it was a USB 3.0 cable, which everyone said would make it work.
BEHOLD!!! …nothing.
I installed legacy drivers, still nothing.
I installed the older version of the software, still nothing.
I installed an even older version of the software for people still running Windows 7, and BEHOLD!!! …nothing.
I then uninstalled all of this software, reinstalled all of them one by one and tweaking compatibility settings for all available options and BEHOLD!!! …still not a fucking thing.
I went through no less than 10 tutorials, watched several YouTube videos, tried every single USB port on my main PC, and still I can’t get this fucking thing to work.
I hope the company Elgato fails and everyone that worked on this massive piece of garbage goes bankrupt and has to suck farts out of used car seats with their mouth to afford Ramen made with stagnant water. Fuck you, Elgato.
Why does something happen every day that makes me want to rip a group of peoples’ pubic hair out with an Ultraluxe vacuum cleaner? Come on.
And if that weren’t enough, people all over the internet are calling this pile of garbage, “Quirky.” Have we become so fucking worried about the pearl clutching pussified masses that we can’t call a poorly engineered piece of fucking garbage a poorly engineered piece of fucking garbage? This piece of fucking garbage is a piece of fucking garbage.
Eat a dick, elgato, you stupid bitch.
And, by the way, I’ve worked in IT support for years so I’m not a complete imbecile. Thanks, smarty pants. Go give your Mom free tech support.
