Will this work as a dedicated stream box?

[GravdigrTV]

I have gaming laptops because I used to drive truck and needed to be portable.

With that out of the way, I'm having framerate issues when streaming and playing on my newer laptop. I was considering going to a 2 pc system and using my old laptop as a stream only machine. It's specs are i7-5500U 2.4Ghz, GTX 860M, and 8GB RAM. I would be using an elgato HD60s usb capture card.

This is an alienware laptop and I can get the external box to house a desktop video card I just currently do not have the funds for that. Would this be enough to stream with? All it would do is streaming. I'm stripping all other programs out and cutting the startup to the minimum needed to run.

 

[deFrisselle]

Should work for just streaming Testing out and report back with a Log if you have any issue
What are the specs of the newer laptop Are you running OBS as Admin Also, capping FPS at 60 might help The GPU bus is also handling traffic from the NVENC encoder So, it that is maxed out you'll loose frames in game or in OBS or both

 

[GravdigrTV]

Should work for just streaming Testing out and report back with a Log if you have any issue
What are the specs of the newer laptop Are you running OBS as Admin Also, capping FPS at 60 might help The GPU bus is also handling traffic from the NVENC encoder So, it that is maxed out you'll loose frames in game or in OBS or both

I just saw your reply to my previous post and applied those changes. I also recently started having issues with bad lag and dropped frames with youtube when streaming through the capture card, doesn't matter if it's played on the laptop or footage captured through the elgato. I have 50Mb upstream and use 6000 for my bitrate running 1080p 60fps. Today I just realized one thing I did change right before I started having the issue and not sure if it makes a difference. I was using the nvidia studio drivers because davinci resolve does not like the game ready drivers and was streaming fine. I changed back to game ready and I think that's when my issue started so I am going to test that too.

My gaming laptop: MSI GS65 Stealth
8th gen i7-8750H
6GB RTX 2060
16GB RAM
mv.2 SSds

I do have it up on a cooling stand as it will get hot hot hot playing any game.

Would doubling the RAM on the dedicated streaming rig be worth it? I can probably swing bumping that up to 16GB if necessary. Also, would that rig be ok for recording. Maybe not stream and record at the same time, but just recording footage for videos?

 

[GravdigrTV]

Still having horribly game framerate just running OBS and a game on the same PC even with the changes suggested. I think my 2 PC setup will be my best bet for that. Next test will be installing the nvidia studio drivers and seeing if I have any connection issues when streaming with the capture card.
Got a small sound issue with the streaming laptop. One of the internal fans is rubbing on something and it is annoyingly loud. Unfortunately it requires complete tear down and removing the mobo to get to the fans. I know because I've done it before. Yay. So can't do any testing there until I play PC mechanic.