Question / Help Could I dual stream with this setup?

[Shafski]

My current PC streams with OBS pretty well, but it affects my FPS slightly in game - makes it a bit jittery - which can affect me when I'm using micro-mechanics at higher ranked gameplay unfortunately.

I stream league of legends.

I have an old laptop, would I be able to set up a dual stream setup on it if I bought a capture card? Would this sort my problem of it being jittery whilst still being able to stream at a reasonable quality? If so do you have any card recommendations and brief card setup recommendation?

[Gaming PC specs]
AMD A8-6600K 3.9GHz Quad Core APU with Radeon HD 8570D graphics
16 GB RAM
Windows 10, 64 bit

[Streaming laptop specs]

• AMD A6-4400M Dual Core Processor
• 15.6" HD Screen
• Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit
• 6GB DDR3 RAM
• 500GB HDD
• DVD Rewriter
• Integrated Graphics (Radeon HD 7520G)
• NP355V5C-A05UK

(https://www.reevoo.com/p/samsung-np355v5c-a05uk#info)

 

[alpinlol]

Wont really help much... theres not much room except for buying a new PC or capture and streaming off an capture card.

 

[Shafski]

Wont really help much... theres not much room except for buying a new PC or capture and streaming off an capture card.

What about a new laptop for capture? Is it because of the laptop specs as opposed to the fact its a laptop? If I got a better laptop would that work? I need a new laptop anyway

 

[Boildown]

Laptops are a poor choice for streaming PC. You pay more for them than the equivalent desktop. You can't add a PCIe capture device, which means you're stuck with USB3 which often are troublesome. Laptops aren't sold with CPUs conducive to video encoding... i.e. ones with a lot of cores. Why must you buy a new laptop? In any event, unless you plan on gaming on your old laptop, you'd need 2 new laptops. Get a good desktop instead.

 

[awolive]

I previously was using a dell xps w/ 7700hq 4 core 8 thread laptop and it did fine for 720p60 @ fast/faster preset but the sucker was expensive. I ended up selling it and my old desktop with 7700k and built a 1950x threadripper to do the job much better and easiler.

 

[sam686]

The requirements is a fast CPU, and capture card with USB 3.0 or PCI-E.
Capture card that only supports USB 2.0 (Elgato HD60 not-s not-pro, AverMedia live gamer portable) will use up lots of CPU usage, as anything higher then 480p 30fps are heavily compressed to fit a slow USB 2.0, slowing down an already slow CPU.

AMD A6-4400M only have 2 threads, and is terribly slow.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+A6-4400M+APU
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/AMD-Ryzen-5-1600X-vs-AMD-A6-4400M-APU/3920vsm1745

I am not sure if you can get AMD H264 encoder though, which can take some load off the CPU, if x264 is too slow.

 

[Shafski]

Laptops are a poor choice for streaming PC. You pay more for them than the equivalent desktop. You can't add a PCIe capture device, which means you're stuck with USB3 which often are troublesome. Laptops aren't sold with CPUs conducive to video encoding... i.e. ones with a lot of cores. Why must you buy a new laptop? In any event, unless you plan on gaming on your old laptop, you'd need 2 new laptops. Get a good desktop instead.

Does it have to be a laptop/laptop combo and pc/pc combo or can it be laptop/pc combo to stream? I've taken note of your advice there, thanks for that, but was just wondering based on your wording at the end.

 

[Boildown]

As long as your laptop can duplicate its stream, or you can buy a video splitter, you could use a laptop for your gaming PC and a desktop for your streaming PC.