KamikazeOG
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Hello all,
I have a dual PC (i7800k/1080Ti & i58600k/1050Ti) stream setup with three monitors (1 is 1440p and 1 is 240Hz). So naturally I can't use the clone feature in display settings for my Elgato HDPro 60 because I would like to take full advantage of my monitor specs. The Elgato seems to cap everything at 1080p60Hz when cloned. So I figured I would download OBS to both PCs. On the first PC I would add a GameCapture source and use the Fullscreen Projector (Preview) and send it to the Elgato that was connected via HDMI to my GPU. Now the OBS on my streaming PC was going to add a video capture device source since the Elgato is in there via PCIe and thats what the VidCaPDevice source is there for. And then on the screen of my streaming PC would show the projected image from my gaming rig. Boom, from there I can stream and encode just on the streaming PC and the gaming rig was just going to game. That was all great. The image on my streaming PC was low latency, good resolution (could have been better), and 60FPS. Now the bad news. As I'm playing CS:GO I'm monitoring my FPS and they seem to be fine - 170+ FPS (CS:GO panorama has dropped the high amount of frames I used to get). My screen however felt very laggy and choppy. It felt like all of a sudden my GPU couldn't handle a simple projection (But my FPS didn't drop) or maybe there was a invisible refresh rate cap when projecting fullscreen and suddenly my 240Hz went down to 60Hz. I feel like it was neither. Many people online, as I researched, had the same problem. Someone had mentioned looking at the stats page and said OBS was monitoring heavy amounts of rendering lag and lost frames. Again as I said my GPU didn't drop frames in my game so it must have been working efficiently and not under stress (load was like 40%). Maybe it's a bug in the software. Or some kind of interference with windows 10.
I ran a test and changed in the video settings 60FPS -> 30FPS and Bicubic to the L-word preset. And I did full screen project again and this time I noticed my gaming screen get a lot smoother. I thought it worked! But then I looked to my left and saw what would be the final product on my streaming PC my heart sank because now it was 30FPS being projected. So I could either have a good finished product for my stream and I take the hit to my gaming experience or I get a good gaming experience with a choppy 30 FPS stream.
I’ve asked a couple of popular streamers and they said they don’t have that problem.
I have a dual PC (i7800k/1080Ti & i58600k/1050Ti) stream setup with three monitors (1 is 1440p and 1 is 240Hz). So naturally I can't use the clone feature in display settings for my Elgato HDPro 60 because I would like to take full advantage of my monitor specs. The Elgato seems to cap everything at 1080p60Hz when cloned. So I figured I would download OBS to both PCs. On the first PC I would add a GameCapture source and use the Fullscreen Projector (Preview) and send it to the Elgato that was connected via HDMI to my GPU. Now the OBS on my streaming PC was going to add a video capture device source since the Elgato is in there via PCIe and thats what the VidCaPDevice source is there for. And then on the screen of my streaming PC would show the projected image from my gaming rig. Boom, from there I can stream and encode just on the streaming PC and the gaming rig was just going to game. That was all great. The image on my streaming PC was low latency, good resolution (could have been better), and 60FPS. Now the bad news. As I'm playing CS:GO I'm monitoring my FPS and they seem to be fine - 170+ FPS (CS:GO panorama has dropped the high amount of frames I used to get). My screen however felt very laggy and choppy. It felt like all of a sudden my GPU couldn't handle a simple projection (But my FPS didn't drop) or maybe there was a invisible refresh rate cap when projecting fullscreen and suddenly my 240Hz went down to 60Hz. I feel like it was neither. Many people online, as I researched, had the same problem. Someone had mentioned looking at the stats page and said OBS was monitoring heavy amounts of rendering lag and lost frames. Again as I said my GPU didn't drop frames in my game so it must have been working efficiently and not under stress (load was like 40%). Maybe it's a bug in the software. Or some kind of interference with windows 10.
I ran a test and changed in the video settings 60FPS -> 30FPS and Bicubic to the L-word preset. And I did full screen project again and this time I noticed my gaming screen get a lot smoother. I thought it worked! But then I looked to my left and saw what would be the final product on my streaming PC my heart sank because now it was 30FPS being projected. So I could either have a good finished product for my stream and I take the hit to my gaming experience or I get a good gaming experience with a choppy 30 FPS stream.
I’ve asked a couple of popular streamers and they said they don’t have that problem.