Question / Help Having some trouble setting up Intel Quick Sync

[DeDovla]

EDIT: My issue has been resolved. It seems that on a ASUS Z97 Sabertooth Mark 2, there is one step less required (you don't need two screens and you don't need to fake connect a screen). Also, one thing to note, my monitor is connected through HDMI (I don't know if that changes anything).

Hello,
This is my first post on this forum, and this isn't a usual Quick Sync problem, so please hear me out.

OK, I've been tinkering with Quick Sync for the past few days, and the problem is that even though I have enabled it in the BIOS and installed the drivers for the integrated card, I can't get the fake monitor to show up in the screen resolution menu (desktop -> right click -> screen resolution).

Now I've been thinking about it, and I just want to get a confirmation if my assumption is correct. I have the ASUS Z97 Sabertooth Mark 2 motherboard, it has quick sync support, and I have the i5-4670k, which also has quick sync support.
My theory is that since the motherboard doesn't have a VGA port (but it does have an HDMI and a DP), it won't show up in windows?

So basically to run quick sync I would need a second monitor?
Forgot to mention, my graphics card is a Radeon 6870 (it's from my old PC, I'm buying a new one soon), so I'm not sure, if it's not the motherboard, maybe it's something with AMD drivers?

I posted this after reading through a lot of posts on this and various other forums, and couldn't find this kind of a problem anywhere.

 

[Harold]

You running windows 7 or windows 8?
Have you checked device manager rather than resolution settings to see if the intel graphics shows up?

My theory is that since the motherboard doesn't have a VGA port (but it does have an HDMI and a DP), it won't show up in windows?

Bad theory.

 

[DeDovla]

I'm running windows 8.1.
And it shows in device manager.
(Also, glad my theory is wrong)

 

[Harold]

So, with it showing up in device manager, do you get the option to use it in OBS?

If not, try installing the latest GPU drivers using the intel driver utility http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect?iid=dc_iduu

 

[DeDovla]

I feel like a dumbass now...It looks like I don't even need to fake the monitor, I just tried it out (enabled it in OBS, and recorded some games) and it worked flawlessly, thanks for your help anyways!