With a Dual PC Streaming setup, does 'projecting' the display outputting to Streaming PC utilise NVENC or not?

JohnBBeta

JohnBBeta

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I'm finding it hard to find a decisive answer on this.

I run a dual PC streaming set up. Gaming PC currently AMD 5700XT gfx card - on an ultrawide 1440p display at 144Hz.
I run an instance of OBS on the gaming PC, and 'project' the gaming display at 1080p60 to another output of my 5700XT (so obviously there's some processing going there to do that) which is then sent to a capture card on the streaming PC.

My question is - does the gaming PC, running OBS and 'projecting' the video to the streaming PC actually do any encoding that would use NVENC hardware encoding? ie will I benefit from switching to an NVIDIA card on my gaming PC either both in game, and what it sends out to the streaming PC?

I've got a 3080 on order regardless which should improve things, but am interested in if NVENC hardware encoding will even be being used in my case, seeing as the actual streaming/recording is taking place on a different computer, so...

Any pros out there with the knowledge I'd be v interested...
 
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rockbottom

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While you're doing whatever you do, you can find your answer here: Task Manager > Performance Tab > GPU

Assuming your PC is fairly decent & after you get the GTX-3080 installed, you should try to ditch the streaming PC
 
koala

koala

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It's not clear what you mean with "projecting", so it's not possible to answer your question with the information given. Please explain what you exactly did to get the gaming output to your other output of your 5700xt. Since ultrawide usually means aspect ratio 21:9 and "gaming display at 1080p" usually means aspect ratio 16:9, it's not clear what you did.
 
JohnBBeta

JohnBBeta

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koala said:
It's not clear what you mean with "projecting", so it's not possible to answer your question with the information given. Please explain what you exactly did to get the gaming output to your other output of your 5700xt. Since ultrawide usually means aspect ratio 21:9 and "gaming display at 1080p" usually means aspect ratio 16:9, it's not clear what you did.
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I use 'fullscreen projector preview' to send the OBS video output to the 2nd HDMI output of the 5700XT. Standard dual streaming technique when gaming at high FPS but sending video to streaming PC with capture card at lower (ie 60FPS) frame rate.
 
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