I have tried to find this with a few searches and can find all kinds of things about how to make an overlay that will be part of the streamed image but I'm actually wanting something more like a capture program's overlay would be and wondering if there is anyway currently known to add an overlay to the game locally that won't be broadcast for showing some of the status of OBS or my system (like CPU usage, core temps, and what I most want it for, mic mute status)?
Question / Help How would I add a status overlay?
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FerretBomb
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This currently is not supported natively in OBS. It has been requested a few times before; really though, the best solution for the time being is to just get a second monitor and put the OBS window (and your chat) there.
FerretBomb said:
Okay... Now I have tried this.. Pulled out my old DVI television, hooked it up as a second monitor.. Does not work so well and opens whole new cans of worms for trouble shooting streams, as just having the second screen open, it blacks the second screen during any resolution change on the main monitor, and sometimes resolution changes in games totally garble the proper scaling of windows in the extra window as it can't decide whether it's it's own resolution or the resolution the game just changed the main monitor to... When I throw OBS into the loop as well, about half the games I have tried to preview flicker, really bad, not just in the preview, but in the game itself when OBS is trying to capture the video. My Graphics card is supposed to be able to support 3 monitors by itself and I have the latest certified drivers for it, so I'm not sure how I'm supposed to troubleshoot the whole can of worm that trying to use two monitors while playing and streaming games has presented... About the only solution I can think of is re-enabling the MB's built in GPU and running the second monitor off of it, but that is a pain in the ass to get working right at all, as the onboard GPU lacks the image fine tuning I need to actually get an image from the computer to match the size of the TV screen without spilling over the edges by about 20 pixels on every edge and the TV doesn't allow the size of the image to be adjusted but only the positioning of it.
PS: Going out and buying a new monitor, new computer, new graphics card, new whatever, isn't really the option either.. I have a pile of assorted hardware I already own and no resources to go out and buy new ones to get my streaming working solid with. The hardware I have includes 1 solid gaming machine with 8 cores, 16 gigs of RAM and a GTX 550 ti in it, a laptop, enough assorted parts I could build 2, maybe 3 whole other desktop machines with older parts than the main rig, and a few Androids.. That's what I have to make work.