Question / Help OBS with two displays, each on an independent video card

[Kyroraz]

All,

I have two displays on independent video cards: One on a 2080 and a 1050 from nVidia. I have a drawing tablet (XP-PEN) connected to the 1050 and it's my drawing tablet for livestreaming -- it's also not my primary display. However, I've discovered that only one of the displays shows up in the Display Capture Pull-down menu when I go to add one as a source. That menu selection is the display that is primary. I can work around it by either choosing photoshop or Clip Studio as my Window Sources or by making the XP-PEN display my primary display, but it seems that really the program should see both displays as viable sources, yes?

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

 

[BK-Morpheus]

What you describe sounds like the correct behavior of OBS.
That's also the reason why capturing games on a laptop with two GPUs is a bit tricky.

 

[Kyroraz]

Well, at least this saves me time in mad debugging and trying to figure out why it's not working. But I'm mystified why this is a feature and not a bug. It feels like an unfortunate feature.