I just making a setup, everything is ready (full simucube setup), now waiting for triples (now im using vr), and 4k gopro. So your channel is awesome for biginners
Just started live streaming my league I run in iracing on Thursday nights. Only using my gaming pc but have been trying to find a video for an easy to follow duel pc setup. This video is perfect thank you.
OMFG Alex. I have been trying to find a really good basic descriptive video for this for about 6 months. So many make it sound so confusing and super hard if you don’t have much pc experience. Thank you for the easy to follow video.
Hey mate thanks for watching! Yes I remember when I first got into live-streaming last year it was a pain there was nothing especially for triple screens! Glad this could help you :)
What do you do if you're running quad monitors and dont have a free HDMI on the GPU. Im using all 3 Display ports and the single HDMI for a 4th monitor.
You mean your using 4 monitors for the actual gaming pc itself? You would need some kind of HDMI hub. Im not sure where you would mount the screen for the streaming PC though, it would have to be off to the side or something.
What are the reasons for having OBS open on the gaming PC if you can just clone your display within the GPU display settings and send the signal to the capture card without having to set up full screen projecions or even open OBS? Great vid, thanks!
@@alexkayracing thanks for the quick response! Great, I just figure it's probably less strenuous on the system by not having OBS open on the gaming PC. However, cloning the display could possibly be more strenuous on the PC in possibly different ways than having obs open in the background, so I'll test to see if either yields better results for my hardware config. Either way should be very minimal to performance, so it probably doesn't even matter but it's worth a try, I'll let you know my test results!
@alex, Struggling with the sound side of things. Running Elgato 60x as the capture card, but can’t figure out to to transfer the sound from the rig to stream pc On both systems I’m running OBS
This was a great video. I have done every step but I have one problem. I can't hear any audio at 4:15 there is an important notice paragraph. I don't understand what that means. Also if it helps I use a wired headset and my mic is a Yeti. How do I connect my mic to my streaming pc and my headset. Please help.
Hey mate did you set the audio source on your gaming PC as your capture card? Click the little sound icon in the bottom right corner of your screen and make sure the name of the audio source is the name of your capture card
@@alexkayracing I have now, it shows up on my streaming pc but I can't hear anything. When I go on twitch and do a test stream the audio shows up but I don't hear it on my gaming pc if that makes sense. In other words the stream hears the game audio but I don't. Thanks for helping btw
I don’t understand how you can hear your game on your gaming pc if your mic is plugged in. I can get the audio to carry over but I can’t hear anything lol
I hear everything from the streaming PC. All the sound from the Gaming PC carries over via the capture card. So my headset is plugged into the streaming PC
When i hook up the signal 4k30 and go into control panel, I dont have 2 monitors coming up from my streaming pc....i only have 1 display. No virtual monitor pops up for me. But yet, i see that in obs on my streaming pc, its showing whats happening on my gaming pc. im confused
I tried to follow step by step and I can’t get the gaming pc to show on obs I can see it in the elgato app but no live display just my Home Screen but obs I see nothing but streaming pc
For the screen projection, it makes what’s appearing on your middle monitor appear on your live stream. You don’t actually hit stream or record though. It just sits there as a screen projection it doesn’t really use any extra resources doing that. Without running screen projection it will just show a blank desktop of your gaming pc not what’s happening in your game
@@alexkayracing I have a high end pc, and I tried to stream by OBS on my main rig for a while but I had micro stutters (lag spikes) while streaming valorant. do you think building a dedicated stream PC could solve my issues such as 50 to 100 fps drop, random micro stutters while shooting etc.? Thanks in advance
@@lockelamora8217 Dual PC streaming is pointless with a modern Nvidia GPU, as they have dedicated NVENC encoding chips that are faster than any CPU encoder.
In my nvidia settings under multiple displays, I see 3 monitors and my elgato. Checking the elgato, Will uncheck a random monitor limiting me on how many monitors
@@turbosnipeone2164 I think I remember when I used to use the same capture card as you I had to have the elgato capture card software installed on both my gaming and my streaming PC or the screen would be black, give that a try
@@alexkayracing nothing im slowly fixing my audio streams and your missing out also i love forza not just horizon but motorsport which is what you play!
You can’t see 165hz on a livestream as a viewer, and when you’re playing the game the capture card is only a virtual monitor, so you can play with whatever fps you like pass through won’t change that :)
Using a second gaming pc is absolutely senseless. current gpus coming with seperate hw encoding chip which will consume about 5 watts and are fully doing the job! encoding is done 100% on this chips.
When you are running a graphically intensive game in triple 1440p resolution having a streaming PC is definitely important for a smooth experience, believe me I’ve tried doing it on one PC itself (I currently have a 4090 PC) and it’s not perfect at all
When streaming and recording simultaneously on my 3060, I take a 15 to 20% performance hit to my framerate, which is still impressive that it's only that much of a loss, but I only had 120 FPS in WZ to begin with. Losing 15 to 20% performance is alot at that low of a framerate, so a two pc setup is absolutely beneficial and objectively SENSIBLE. I know from experience. Have you benchmarked your performance hit when streaming and recording on one GPU? If it's a 0% loss, which it won't be, then you can say it's not sensible, but only then. 🤷
So who here livestreams Sim Racing and what game do you stream?
I just making a setup, everything is ready (full simucube setup), now waiting for triples (now im using vr), and 4k gopro. So your channel is awesome for biginners
@@chinacasher2285 glad to hear mate best of luck with your setup!
Just started live streaming my league I run in iracing on Thursday nights. Only using my gaming pc but have been trying to find a video for an easy to follow duel pc setup. This video is perfect thank you.
Enjoy mate and good luck with your league 🔥
OMFG Alex. I have been trying to find a really good basic descriptive video for this for about 6 months. So many make it sound so confusing and super hard if you don’t have much pc experience.
Thank you for the easy to follow video.
Hey mate thanks for watching! Yes I remember when I first got into live-streaming last year it was a pain there was nothing especially for triple screens! Glad this could help you :)
Helped me resolve my audio issue. Thank you
Awesome brother enjoy!
GIDAY ALEX YOUR GUIDE HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL WELL EXPLAINED STEP BY STEP
My pleasure 👍
thank you this actually worked unlike other videos
No problem mate enjoy!
So i came back and im having issues with the audio side
Liked, you deserve more subs. Easy and short
Hey thanks for watching mate! Glad it could help you 🙏
What do you do if you're running quad monitors and dont have a free HDMI on the GPU. Im using all 3 Display ports and the single HDMI for a 4th monitor.
You mean your using 4 monitors for the actual gaming pc itself? You would need some kind of HDMI hub. Im not sure where you would mount the screen for the streaming PC though, it would have to be off to the side or something.
What are the reasons for having OBS open on the gaming PC if you can just clone your display within the GPU display settings and send the signal to the capture card without having to set up full screen projecions or even open OBS? Great vid, thanks!
You could probably do it that way too! Either way is fine
@@alexkayracing thanks for the quick response! Great, I just figure it's probably less strenuous on the system by not having OBS open on the gaming PC. However, cloning the display could possibly be more strenuous on the PC in possibly different ways than having obs open in the background, so I'll test to see if either yields better results for my hardware config. Either way should be very minimal to performance, so it probably doesn't even matter but it's worth a try, I'll let you know my test results!
@@slayridah yeah I think either way it should take a performance hit but honestly the performance hit is nothing as it’s just a projection.
thank you for the video, so all the camera and microphone are set to streaming PC?
No problem! Yes that’s correct 👍
@alex,
Struggling with the sound side of things.
Running Elgato 60x as the capture card, but can’t figure out to to transfer the sound from the rig to stream pc
On both systems I’m running OBS
Hey mate send me a dm in discord and we’ll make a time to sort it out together 👍
If headset is plugged into streaming Pc, how do you talk to teammates in game ?
Discord on the streaming PC👍
@@alexkayracing but there’s no actual in-game chat fix?
Any suggestions when running a 4th monitor on the sim rig and another separate monitor for the streaming pc
Is there a way that can be setup?
Hey mate you might need some kind of HDMI hub for that, it’s a bit of a tricky process
How are you getting the audio from the gaming pc to the streaming pc ? @alex Kay
Set the audio output on your gaming PC as the capture card (do this in the sound settings in bottom right of your screen)
This was a great video. I have done every step but I have one problem. I can't hear any audio at 4:15 there is an important notice paragraph. I don't understand what that means. Also if it helps I use a wired headset and my mic is a Yeti. How do I connect my mic to my streaming pc and my headset. Please help.
More specifically how can I hear my audio
Hey mate did you set the audio source on your gaming PC as your capture card? Click the little sound icon in the bottom right corner of your screen and make sure the name of the audio source is the name of your capture card
@@alexkayracing I have now, it shows up on my streaming pc but I can't hear anything. When I go on twitch and do a test stream the audio shows up but I don't hear it on my gaming pc if that makes sense. In other words the stream hears the game audio but I don't. Thanks for helping btw
@@real.cryptic all good man, in the sound settings for the game capture source on OBS, do you have it set to monitor and output?
@@alexkayracing Is this for my streaming pc or gaming pc? Because I use OBS for my gaming and StreamLabs OBS for streaming.
i have a question if i use a laptop with good specs could i use a audio mixer and capture card
As long as you have an HDMI slot on the laptop then yes
@@alexkayracing mainly because i'm doing duel pc with the laptop thank's
@@2xDavid_ that’s fine cos I started of using a laptop as my streaming machine also!
@@alexkayracing you deserve to have 100k subs I’m being genuinely
@@2xDavid_ thank you bro, some day 🙏
I don’t understand how you can hear your game on your gaming pc if your mic is plugged in. I can get the audio to carry over but I can’t hear anything lol
I hear everything from the streaming PC. All the sound from the Gaming PC carries over via the capture card. So my headset is plugged into the streaming PC
@@alexkayracing I'm not sure why but I dont get any audio from my capture card.
When i hook up the signal 4k30 and go into control panel, I dont have 2 monitors coming up from my streaming pc....i only have 1 display. No virtual monitor pops up for me. But yet, i see that in obs on my streaming pc, its showing whats happening on my gaming pc. im confused
You won’t see two monitors pop up on the streaming pc only on the gaming PC
hi bro...can i run fullscreen projector preview on streamlabs?
Hey bro I think you can but I have not tried it before
@@alexkayracing oh okey, I've tried and there isn't even a fullscreen projector preview option on streamlabs.
I wonder if there is a separate setting
I tried to follow step by step and I can’t get the gaming pc to show on obs I can see it in the elgato app but no live display just my Home Screen but obs I see nothing but streaming pc
Did you open obs on your gaming pc and right click the scene and set it is a full screen projection? That’s probably why you can’t see it
I think I may have figured out why my laptop only has usb 2.0 ports no 3.0 so the capture card isn’t working properly guess I just need a new 2nd pc
where and how do you hook up your mic? with a mixer from the game pc and how did you get it to the stream pc?
No my mic is just plugged straight into the stream pc 👍
@@alexkayracing Then if we want to talk to our teammates in the gaming pc with Mic how will that work any solution for that ?
@@alexkayracing Help needed ASAP on this if you have any solutions do LMK
Why do you need to run OBS on the gaming PC?
For the screen projection, it makes what’s appearing on your middle monitor appear on your live stream. You don’t actually hit stream or record though. It just sits there as a screen projection it doesn’t really use any extra resources doing that.
Without running screen projection it will just show a blank desktop of your gaming pc not what’s happening in your game
If I use 240hz as my gaming pc and 144hz for streaming pc, will it affect my fps? is there any downside of two pc not matching as in monitor hertz?
No it will not, just make sure that the canvas for Streamlabs/OBS on both your streaming and gaming PC is set to 1080p 60
@@alexkayracing thanks for the quick reply!
What are the most important parts of streaming PC? (cpu? gpu?)
@@alexkayracing I have a high end pc, and I tried to stream by OBS on my main rig for a while but I had micro stutters (lag spikes) while streaming valorant. do you think building a dedicated stream PC could solve my issues such as 50 to 100 fps drop, random micro stutters while shooting etc.?
Thanks in advance
@@lockelamora8217 these days the gpu mate because they have dedicated chips in them which manage the streaming side of things
@@lockelamora8217 Dual PC streaming is pointless with a modern Nvidia GPU, as they have dedicated NVENC encoding chips that are faster than any CPU encoder.
How do i get the audio across when im using obs on my steaming pc?
It’s done automatically via the capture card
Alex how do you get spectator view doing this??
Replied on discord mate 👍
So i have the Elgato HD60S+ and i did everything in the video. However im getting a black screen on my streaming PC
That’s a wierd one man, did you plug it in to a usb 3.0 slot?
In my nvidia settings under multiple displays, I see 3 monitors and my elgato. Checking the elgato, Will uncheck a random monitor limiting me on how many monitors
@@alexkayracing correct, multiple ports, it picks up when I select it under nvidia to read it. But not automatically.
@@turbosnipeone2164 I think I remember when I used to use the same capture card as you I had to have the elgato capture card software installed on both my gaming and my streaming PC or the screen would be black, give that a try
@alexkayracing ill try that but I'm 99% sure it is though. The funny thing is elgato neither streamlabs tech support can find the issue
Hello do you use voicemeeter or something like that because i have audio issues
What audio issue do you have mate? No I don’t really play horizon 5
@@alexkayracing nothing im slowly fixing my audio streams and your missing out also i love forza not just horizon but motorsport which is what you play!
@@hidroop I didn’t like motorsport unfortunately cos all the cars were just wayyyy too understeery
Please make a Audio video and do you play Forza Horizon 5
Answered below in other comment 👍
No 165hz passthrough is a no go with a capture card!
You can’t see 165hz on a livestream as a viewer, and when you’re playing the game the capture card is only a virtual monitor, so you can play with whatever fps you like pass through won’t change that :)
Using a second gaming pc is absolutely senseless. current gpus coming with seperate hw encoding chip which will consume about 5 watts and are fully doing the job! encoding is done 100% on this chips.
When you are running a graphically intensive game in triple 1440p resolution having a streaming PC is definitely important for a smooth experience, believe me I’ve tried doing it on one PC itself (I currently have a 4090 PC) and it’s not perfect at all
When streaming and recording simultaneously on my 3060, I take a 15 to 20% performance hit to my framerate, which is still impressive that it's only that much of a loss, but I only had 120 FPS in WZ to begin with. Losing 15 to 20% performance is alot at that low of a framerate, so a two pc setup is absolutely beneficial and objectively SENSIBLE. I know from experience. Have you benchmarked your performance hit when streaming and recording on one GPU? If it's a 0% loss, which it won't be, then you can say it's not sensible, but only then. 🤷