Question / Help Experience with 2pc setup?

[jincuteguy]

So I've seen a lot of ppl streaming on Twitch using 2 pcs and a capture cards. I know 2pc setup for streaming is prob the best setup that gives you the best fps while streaming. But my question is will it let you play the game as "smooth" as when u 're not streaming?

Because when I'm using 1pc to stream, even with OBS, even though I don't lose that much fps while streaming, but it doesn't feel "smooth" as when I'm not streaming i.e playing the game only. I'm talking about when streaming FPS games such as BF3, BF4, CoD, L4D, etc. When I'm streaming those game using 1pc with OBS, the game doesnt' feel as smooth or as normal as it would without streaming. So for anyone that has 2pc setup or has been using 2pc setup can share your thoughts, would be really appreciated it.

My pc spec:

2600K @ 4.5ghz
8gb 2133mhz RAM
GTx 780
Enermax 850W psu

 

[dodgepong]

With a 2-PC setup, no additional load is placed on the gaming PC beyond whatever the game demands. All streaming/encoding demand is placed on the streaming computer. Thus, you should be able to play your game as if you were not streaming.

(Unless, of course, your streaming process was consuming all your upload bandwidth, which would make your online performance suffer in online games.)

 

[jincuteguy]

Thanks for the quick reply man. Yea I have plenty of upload bandwidth for streaming so I'm not worry about that.
Yea I was wondering about the 2pc setup cause i don't want to build another pc and then it still won't be as smooth as when not streaming, and all that money went to wasted. But yea your answer cleared things up for me.

Btw, what do you guys think about the Nvidia Shadow Play? Will you guys support it in future OBS updates?

 

[dodgepong]

ShadowPlay is neat, but the interesting part of it (NVENC) seems mired in some licensing issues. See here: http://obsproject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5036

 

[FerretBomb]

Also ShadowPlay currently only supports local recording, not streaming. It's expected to be added in a future update by nVidia, but we'll have to see when it actually comes out as a viable technology... and if it's as utterly craptastic as AVerMedia's hardware 'solutions'.