Question / Help Trying to do a dual pc streaming setup

Jpixta

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OK guys, so I will try to be as descriptive as possible, so the "gaming" pc that I am working with is an i7 3.06ghz quadcore with a GTX 770 graphics card, 12 gigs of ram, I have a 60 hz monitor for spotify, skype, etc and a 144hz monitor that I run the games on, primarily league of legends at the moment. The streaming pc is an amd fx 8350 octacore at 4.0ghz with just onboard video and a avermedia live gamer hd capture card, 4 gigs of ram, and I'm currently just remote desktop'ing into the streaming pc so I don't need another monitor. I have tried streaming before with ONLY the gaming pc and everything works fine as long as I use game source and fullscreen for league, and I get no fps drops and am always pretty much at 144 fps, but if I try to stream in borderless the fps loss in game makes it annoying for me but the stream looks fine, so I have just used fullscreen.

When I tried bringing in the streaming pc I did the trick where you do the fullscreen preview without encoding on obs to work around the 144hz refresh rate problem, and I can get the video fine, but the audio has always been a problem and I cant get it into the streaming pc unless I have no audio on the gaming pc (lol). So I have been trying to stream on 720 60 fps with this but as soon as I plug in that hdmi cord into my gaming pc things just aren't as smooth and everything acts kind of weird in general, which doesn't make sense because I got another pc to make things easier on the gaming pc. But honestly the stream looks better if I just stream only with the gaming pc instead of adding the streaming pc into the equation..... I have my bitrate set to 3000 or 3500 if I remember correctly, can anyone show me how to get the audio working and get a smooth dual pc setup running properly??

Thanks in advance :) and sorry if I kind of jumped all over the place haha.
 
Hi, are you using a HDMI splitter at all for the video? Also do you use an external mixer (USB one is your best bet) for sound at all? Also I'm not sure 4GB of RAM on your streaming pc is enough, you might need atleast 8GB.
 
The thing that sticks out to me is that your encoding PC still needs a half-way decent GPU. OBS actually uses the GPU for part of the encoding process instead of being strictly CPU-only like most software encoders. Nvidia GTX 550 is enough, and the AMD equivilent of that. I personally use a GTX 750Ti in my encode PC, so I can encode with NVEnc if I want.

What's wrong with just stringing an audio cable from your gaming PC to your encoding PC? I use a Y-splitter on my gaming PC's surround fronts and feed that to the line-in on my encoding PC.
 
I haven't been using a splitter at all for the video, and I found this video on youtube, looks like a good solution for the audio, and I followed all of the steps but that still doesn't bring the audio over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ODygPJTz3M, I might be building a new gaming pc soon so I could just use the 770 in the streaming system. But basically in the video the guy runs these two audio streams, but he also has these virtual audio cables? I think that might be a problem with my setup?
 
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