Hey OBS forums,
I'm looking to start streaming again and I'm hoping to do so with a better set up than I did last time. My desktop's hardware still hasn't improved, and I haven't bought any new monitors or keyboards or anything, so the main way I'm hoping to upgrade is by using a second computer while streaming.
I want to do all of my gaming and "content to be captured" on my desktop. Ideally, Laptop would be monitoring everything I do on Desktop's primary monitor and forwarding it to my streaming service (likely Twitch, but irrelevant) using OBS. While doing my gaming and "I'm a streamer!" thing on my desktop, I'd like to be able to conveniently turn to my laptop and adjust any settings I need or read my chat room or post polls or do any other sort of administrator/moderator/producer duties necessary.
Does OBS have this sort of feature built-in, or will I need to jury rig it? Do you have any suggestions on how to do that?
I'm looking to start streaming again and I'm hoping to do so with a better set up than I did last time. My desktop's hardware still hasn't improved, and I haven't bought any new monitors or keyboards or anything, so the main way I'm hoping to upgrade is by using a second computer while streaming.
[context]For clarity's sake, I'm using my desktop, which is a very dated gaming computer (coming up on 8 years, featuring Frankenstein monster-salvaged and hand-me-down part upgrades) as my primary computer in my day-to-day life and it is what I use to play games. It's got an adequate amount of (slow) RAM--10 GB--for streaming in general, and doesn't ever really hang up because of that. The processor is okay, and can handle streaming games that aren't processor-intensive--I never had problems streaming Hearthstone. The video card is also okay, but it and the processor start to struggle when I'm streaming games that are at all cumbersome, like even League of Legends. My framerate goes from generally above 60fps to generally at 40fps with frequent dips on the same settings.
The second computer would for now be a laptop which is decent. It's rocking an i3 processor with 4 GB of ram. It's able to play league on the highest settings and its highest resoultion (1366 x 786) around 40fps which is less than satisfying for me but is adequate.
For simplicity's sake, the first computer will be referred to as Desktop and the second will be referred to as Laptop. I hope to eventually upgrade both of these machines, possibly both into specialized desktops, but that's beside the point and far into the future.[/context]
The second computer would for now be a laptop which is decent. It's rocking an i3 processor with 4 GB of ram. It's able to play league on the highest settings and its highest resoultion (1366 x 786) around 40fps which is less than satisfying for me but is adequate.
For simplicity's sake, the first computer will be referred to as Desktop and the second will be referred to as Laptop. I hope to eventually upgrade both of these machines, possibly both into specialized desktops, but that's beside the point and far into the future.[/context]
I want to do all of my gaming and "content to be captured" on my desktop. Ideally, Laptop would be monitoring everything I do on Desktop's primary monitor and forwarding it to my streaming service (likely Twitch, but irrelevant) using OBS. While doing my gaming and "I'm a streamer!" thing on my desktop, I'd like to be able to conveniently turn to my laptop and adjust any settings I need or read my chat room or post polls or do any other sort of administrator/moderator/producer duties necessary.
Does OBS have this sort of feature built-in, or will I need to jury rig it? Do you have any suggestions on how to do that?
