Question / Help Dual Pc Streaming issues with capture card (screen tearing).

[Dillon Lightfoot]

Hello everyone, this is my first post to a forum in general so if I'm missing some key information I sincerely apologize. I currently use a 4k elgato capture card and use a dual pc setup. However I experience a lot of screen tearing on my streaming PC's OBS.

I extend my displays and use OBS on both computers. I do a full screen preview and make it display on the extended monitor. The extended monitor is obviously captured on the streaming PC. The reason I do this rather than duplicate displays is because the screen tearing is 10000x worse when the screen is duplicated.

I use two 144hz monitors that are 2560x1440p, changing the refresh rates/having them the same hasn't changed anything in screen tearing for me.

My gaming rig general specs is it has a 1080ti FTW an i7-7700k and 32g of ram. It doesnt have any real issues. All issues come from the streaming PC.

Streaming PC general specs:
CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
GPU gtx 1060 6g
RAM 16g

Attached is my obs log for my streaming PC after recording a short segment of PUBG. I use a lot of different sources and scenes for different comical things, and with or without all of that the tearing is the same(I doubt that matters).

 

[Boildown]

When you game at 144Hz and capture at 60Hz, tearing can happen. Try doing it all at 60Hz and see if it goes away. Then try it at 120Hz and see what happens, and react appropriately based on the results of these tests.