IF YOU ARE NOT GETTING SOUND FROM THE GAMING PC on the STREAMING PC: - Ensure you have set the audio device on your Gaming PC as the capture card (make sure all your games/apps that you are running are doing this too). - Ensure you have made an “audio output” source in your OBS/Streamlabs on the streaming PC.
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 :)
thank you for this video bro and for explaining all this so well its very helpful I been watching this videos all night and this is by far the best one thank you!!!!!!
i am trying to do this for Fortnite. I am having an issue where in my Fortnite game sound options for output it shows me either my main pc or my streaming pc which means either only i hear the game sound or my stream how do i make it both. please help me fix this .
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.
I have a less typical question. I am trying to record my gameplay from the gaming pc. However I can't make OBS capture the audio of the game when the pc source is set to capture card audio. Is there a fix to that?
@@alexkayracing So the streaming pc is working correctly. However when I want to record my gameplay on gaming PC as well, I cannot capture audio of any sort via obs.
@ ahhh I see what you mean, I’ve never tried that scenario but I’m pretty sure you can just unplug the capture card and it will automatically make your sound go back to the gaming pc, then just plug it back in when your finished what you need to record on the gaming pc
@@lastethica yeah I think with the 5000 series cards it might be okay finally but devs have a problem by not optimising games properly just letting the spec requirements stay high which is bad
@@alexkayracing ok i just setup a dual pc once again, my fullscreen projector (preview) has delay, will this also delay my transferred sound as it goes through same video capture card?
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.
@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
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
Question on the audio. Is there no delay with the audio listening to your game audio through your stream PC? Also if I were using discord I would just have to setup an audio source on my streaming PC through OBS so that they can hear my discord friends and another for them to hear me right just normally?
I recently purchased Elgato HD60X, wanted to record gameplay on laptop (1920X1080) and gaming pc montior (2560X1080). Recording is horrible with letter box. How we can avoid this ?
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
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
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
Hello. Im having trouble getting my audio from my gaming rig to streaming laptop. i got both el gato hd60x and hd60s. neither of them are working. Any help would be awesome. do you do private sessions for tech help? by chance.
Hi Patrick, make sure you have the audio source on the gaming PC set as the capture card. Then in your streaming PC make sure on OBS/Streamlabs you have an audio output source made for your audio device. If you’d like help with this please send a message on our community discord and we can sort out a time 👍
I think I see what's going on lol, but still hard to understand at times. My issue with sound is that I play Warzone. So having my headset in the streaming PC won't work...as my team won't hear me
Ah yep I get what you mean, might have to have a different mic for the gaming pc so you can talk to them if they are randoms. If they are your friends you can just talk to them on discord from the streaming pc
This a great guide. I have a problem, was hoping maybe someone here would know what to do; I run discord on my streaming PC but discord thinks I am inactive and throws me in the AFK channel. Has anyone had the same problem?
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
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!
You cant clone the output of the GPU if say your running 1440p native and the capture card only support 1080p, if you do that this wil gimp your main display down to 1080p/60 as per the capture card you are using.. (unless someone knows of a way round that) So this method in the vid is good if you have to downscale from your native. By all means though, please correct me if I'm wrong.
@@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.
@@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!
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
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. 🤷
IF YOU ARE NOT GETTING SOUND FROM THE GAMING PC on the STREAMING PC:
- Ensure you have set the audio device on your Gaming PC as the capture card (make sure all your games/apps that you are running are doing this too).
- Ensure you have made an “audio output” source in your OBS/Streamlabs on the streaming PC.
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 :)
GIDAY ALEX YOUR GUIDE HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL WELL EXPLAINED STEP BY STEP
My pleasure 👍
thank you for this video bro and for explaining all this so well its very helpful I been watching this videos all night and this is by far the best one thank you!!!!!!
All good brother thanks for watching!
Liked, you deserve more subs. Easy and short
Hey thanks for watching mate! Glad it could help you 🙏
thank you this actually worked unlike other videos
No problem mate enjoy!
So i came back and im having issues with the audio side
Helped me resolve my audio issue. Thank you
Awesome brother enjoy!
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 am trying to do this for Fortnite. I am having an issue where in my Fortnite game sound options for output it shows me either my main pc or my streaming pc which means either only i hear the game sound or my stream how do i make it both. please help me fix this .
On the gaming pc you set the output as the capture card. On the streaming pc you create as sound source for the capture card
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.
I have a less typical question. I am trying to record my gameplay from the gaming pc. However I can't make OBS capture the audio of the game when the pc source is set to capture card audio. Is there a fix to that?
So you are just using the capture card with your gaming PC right?
@@alexkayracing So the streaming pc is working correctly. However when I want to record my gameplay on gaming PC as well, I cannot capture audio of any sort via obs.
@ ahhh I see what you mean, I’ve never tried that scenario but I’m pretty sure you can just unplug the capture card and it will automatically make your sound go back to the gaming pc, then just plug it back in when your finished what you need to record on the gaming pc
@@alexkayracing Well that is the catch, I wanted to record it during stream so with the capture card running ^^"
Oh dear 😂
thank you for the video, so all the camera and microphone are set to streaming PC?
No problem! Yes that’s correct 👍
@@alexkayracingthank you, i bought a 4070S hoping the encoder chip will sufficient for 1 PC setup, its not.
@@lastethica yeah I think with the 5000 series cards it might be okay finally but devs have a problem by not optimising games properly just letting the spec requirements stay high which is bad
@@alexkayracing ok i just setup a dual pc once again, my fullscreen projector (preview) has delay, will this also delay my transferred sound as it goes through same video capture card?
@@lastethica hey mate delay how do? Like in the image or in the audio? What capture card are you using
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
@@ViktorDubaiskiy 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 🔥
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
@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 👍
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 🙏
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?
@@Schism_tvno
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.
@@alexkayracingis there a delay when you hear the audio from the streaming pc
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)
Question on the audio. Is there no delay with the audio listening to your game audio through your stream PC? Also if I were using discord I would just have to setup an audio source on my streaming PC through OBS so that they can hear my discord friends and another for them to hear me right just normally?
If you were using discord you would just use it on the streaming pc. With the audio no there should not be any delay!
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
I recently purchased Elgato HD60X, wanted to record gameplay on laptop (1920X1080) and gaming pc montior (2560X1080). Recording is horrible with letter box. How we can avoid this ?
Make sure both canvas’s are the same resolution (1080p) in obs on both pc’s
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
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
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.
Hello. Im having trouble getting my audio from my gaming rig to streaming laptop. i got both el gato hd60x and hd60s. neither of them are working. Any help would be awesome. do you do private sessions for tech help? by chance.
Hi Patrick, make sure you have the audio source on the gaming PC set as the capture card. Then in your streaming PC make sure on OBS/Streamlabs you have an audio output source made for your audio device. If you’d like help with this please send a message on our community discord and we can sort out a time 👍
@@alexkayracingI did on your discord. Thanks.
@@Ruccas21 all good just replied :)
@@alexkayracing what your discord i need help too
@@BigReaper discord.gg/YyN59wDnfy
I think I see what's going on lol, but still hard to understand at times. My issue with sound is that I play Warzone. So having my headset in the streaming PC won't work...as my team won't hear me
Ah yep I get what you mean, might have to have a different mic for the gaming pc so you can talk to them if they are randoms. If they are your friends you can just talk to them on discord from the streaming pc
This a great guide. I have a problem, was hoping maybe someone here would know what to do; I run discord on my streaming PC but discord thinks I am inactive and throws me in the AFK channel. Has anyone had the same problem?
Hey mate I think that has to do with the discord servers afk settings, sounds like a weird issue
Alex how do you get spectator view doing this??
Replied on discord mate 👍
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
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.
You cant clone the output of the GPU if say your running 1440p native and the capture card only support 1080p, if you do that this wil gimp your main display down to 1080p/60 as per the capture card you are using.. (unless someone knows of a way round that)
So this method in the vid is good if you have to downscale from your native. By all means though, please correct me if I'm wrong.
@ yes that’s correct because my native resolution on the gaming pc is 7680x1440, while my stream is 1080p
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.
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
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
How do i get the audio across when im using obs on my steaming pc?
It’s done automatically via the capture card
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. 🤷