Question / Help Obs projector mode help

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pottux

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Hello,

I bought a avermedia gc550 capture card which unfortunately doesn't support 1440p resolution which means i would need to downgrade my 1440p monitor to 1080p for it to work properly.

Yesterday i found out about obs projector setting which lets me copy my screen to my capture card "monitor" but the problem is that the footage it sends out looks low fps even though i have set obs to 60 FPS. So is there any way to actually get the projected video look smooth even if it takes little bit more power from my CPU?

I would love to use it instead of lowering resolution on my monitor.

By the way i'm using a dual PC setup to stream so that's what the capture card is for.
 
Fenrir

Fenrir

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Why does the gaming PC have all your overlay sources and everything else on it?

Chances are that you're overloading your gaming PC's video card, causing OBS to not be able to render at a stable 60fps. Try a clean scene collection (menu at the top of OBS) with only the game capture source. You should really move all those other sources and overlays to your streaming PC so it can take the load of the extra processing required. The main point of 2 PC streaming is to offload as much work as possible to the second PC,
 
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pottux

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Fenrir said:
Why does the gaming PC have all your overlay sources and everything else on it?

Chances are that you're overloading your gaming PC's video card, causing OBS to not be able to render at a stable 60fps. Try a clean scene collection (menu at the top of OBS) with only the game capture source. You should really move all those other sources and overlays to your streaming PC so it can take the load of the extra processing required. The main point of 2 PC streaming is to offload as much work as possible to the second PC,
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I sometimes stream on my gaming pc too so thats why it has all the scenes done etc.

EDIT: It still looks low fps compared to lowering my resolution.
 
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Fenrir

Fenrir

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Try this, in OBS, click View -> Stats.

Monitor the metric for "Frames missed due to rendering lag" and let me know if that number is counting up on the gaming PC while you have everything open like you would normally.

After about 5 minutes, if the number is not 0, please screenshot the stats window and link it here so I can see.
 
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pottux

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Fenrir said:
Try this, in OBS, click View -> Stats.

Monitor the metric for "Frames missed due to rendering lag" and let me know if that number is counting up on the gaming PC while you have everything open like you would normally.

After about 5 minutes, if the number is not 0, please screenshot the stats window and link it here so I can see.
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Yeah its counting up slowly : https://gyazo.com/0847bc234fc04168018a968c70715e87
Fps drops like from 60 to 57 at random
 
Fenrir

Fenrir

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That means that your GPU is overloaded. Make sure you're capping FPS in the game and that you're using graphics settings that your PC can hold at that cap steady.
 
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