Question / Help Game running at only 60hz while capture card is set up.

[Grae]

I recently built a second PC for my GF's stream and stuck an Avermedia C985 that I had laying around in it.

Everything works perfectly fine and she's been streaming at 60FPS with it flawlessly.

Today I tried to use it to record some footage of my gameplay, however, it seemed to limit my game to 60Hz while it was recording? I have a 144hz monitor and my in-game FPS was well over 200, but I could easily tell that it was running at 60fps while I was recording with the second PC.

My first assumption that there's no way around this since I'm duplicating my monitor to the capture card and the capture card is limited to 1080p60 input so it limits my monitor to that while it's on.

Am I right in assuming this or is there a clever way around it that you guys have figured out? Let me know, thanks!

 

[Grae]

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[David123456]

Here's a video of a guy explaining with i hope is the answer on youtube. It's a little lengthy, but it should help
https://youtu.be/PLG_i_ED-Nk

I got this link from a guy on reddit who also told me this:

There's a way to do it with OBS on your gaming computer using the full screen preview option built into OBS. Basically, instead of cloning your gaming monitor to your capture card (and thereby locking both displays to 60Hz), you keep the capture card separate. Do not clone your gaming display to it at all. It should be showing up as its own monitor in your Windows display settings if you have everything connected correctly. Then in OBS (which you'll have to install on your gaming computer), use the full screen preview option and send that preview to the capture card monitor. This will allow your gaming display to continue running at its native refresh rate while the capture card runs at its usual 60Hz.

 

[Avduga]

Here's a video of a guy explaining with i hope is the answer on youtube. It's a little lengthy, but it should help
https://youtu.be/PLG_i_ED-Nk

I got this link from a guy on reddit who also told me this:

There's a way to do it with OBS on your gaming computer using the full screen preview option built into OBS. Basically, instead of cloning your gaming monitor to your capture card (and thereby locking both displays to 60Hz), you keep the capture card separate. Do not clone your gaming display to it at all. It should be showing up as its own monitor in your Windows display settings if you have everything connected correctly. Then in OBS (which you'll have to install on your gaming computer), use the full screen preview option and send that preview to the capture card monitor. This will allow your gaming display to continue running at its native refresh rate while the capture card runs at its usual 60Hz.

After more that 6 years, i found this post extremely helpful.
Thank you very much.