How To Set Up Dual PC Video Capture For Streaming + Recording | Step By Step Walkthrough

[@yenu]

Just to note, if you have a higher resolution/refresh rate monitor, but a capture card that ONLY supports 1080p60fps, Windows can now support display cloning downsampling. For example, if you have a 1440p240hz monitor, but then a 1080p60fps capture card, you can clone your main monitor (1440p240hz) to your 1080p60fps capture card, and WIndows will automatically take that 1440p video signal, and downscale it to 1080p. Your main monitor will remain unaffected and will stay at 1440p, rather than changing to 1080p. WIth recent NVIDIA and WIndows updates, it does will no longer use the lower refresh rate. Each display (in this case, the main monitor and the capture card) will run on their respective refresh rates! Passthrough is almost not needed anymore, assuming you have a good enough computer to handle display cloning!

[@acejimbo6119]

windows 11 ??

[@robertbobbybob]

Thanks for this, i was trying to find a way around the refresh rate cap and had no clue they pushed this update

[@acejimbo6119]

@@robertbobbybob Windows 11 ou 10 ?

[@acejimbo6119]

@@robertbobbybob I mean if you can help me with that it would be really appreciated !

[@robertbobbybob]

@@acejimbo6119 ah I don't have the 2nd PC yet, I just knew this was a problem and was looking for an solutions ahead of time, I'm assuming maybe it's a Windows 11 thing?

[@leadpolarbear]

been streaming wrong for 2 years apparently lol thank you.

[@TakeoffTommy]

I was using my passthrough for my main monitor, and I didnt understand you dont have to and you can just clone it! Your a lifesaver bro, thank you so much ❤❤

[@MishaThePunk]

Wont this hurt your fps?

[@yenu]

@@MishaThePunk it depends on your computer configuration. The way display duplication/cloning works is that it renders video on the main monitor, but then sends that same (already rendered) data to the cloning monitor. It shouldn't affect your performance too much, if at all, if you have a decent enough computer.

[@invictuskrazed2213]

the whole point of dual pc streaming is to have no affect on the one you are playing on@@yenu

[@yenu]

@@invictuskrazed2213 i'm not sure if you're just ignorant or actually just stupid but no shit sherlock the video LITERALLY talks about monitor cloning/duplication rather than passthrough which is why i was talking about performance hits depending on the configuration

[@zanechristiansen]

cloning always causes weird issues when I alt tab and resolution/refresh rates resetting to default settings so I have more hdmi cables ordered to just use the passthru. I just want it to work every time flawlessly, and it does not while cloned. kind of funny now that I'm getting into this sort of equipment, I realize that there is no right way to set it uo everyone just does what they can to make it work it sounds like lol

[@dadschaos2168]

I’m not gonna lie you are actually a legend, great explanation after 5 hours of hating life. Thanks 🔥🔥🔥

[@sku56]

what about audio? what is your setup? I use NDI so I have obs open on my main rig but it doesn't affect performance for me but was trying to find a better solution. I don't like using voicemeeter as well as I find it somehow makes my mic robotic at times. Probably because I used an audio interface, NVIDIA broadcast and voicemeeter lol

[@JahWeest]

Having pretty similar issues. usually the popping from broadcast is because your gpu is overloaded. hope that helps, with things like the 1660 the resource pool is shared unfortunately

[@sku56]

@@JahWeest I tested it out and it interferes with voice meeter, discord and broadcast and my focusrite solo gen 3.... I have a 3080ti and I used a 2 pc set up so my gpu wasn't being overloaded. I would sometimes get rid of the robotic noise by restarting discord, broadcast or a full boot up... but it pretty annoying so I stopped using broadcast and voicemeeter.

[@DieTabbi]

@sku56 have you solved your issues?

[@sku56]

not really.. I don't use NVIDIA Broadcast and voicemeeter anymore so I don't have the robotic issue. I use the OBS Teleport for audio like Itunes, Chrome etc so I can control the audio individually.@@DieTabbi

[@themysticbiscuit6862]

Is it possible to put the capture card into a gaming pc and use the line out to go to the hdmi port on a streaming laptop?

[@RAVisuals]

in theory that seems like it could work

[@ThomasShelby6213]

2024 and this video still helps me. Thank you so much bro!

[@imrin4059]

I saw husker using 240hz 1440p monitor pc stream with 4k60mk2. but idk how to do it. cus it said it doesnt support 240hz 1440p only 1440p 144hz. do you know how to do it?

[@Moody.Streams]

Figure this out?

[@ukgunit001]

Any update guys ?

[@JamixGaming]

Thank you for this video. I have a question. I have dual stream setup similar to this one. One of my concerns is that video setting in a game the capture card, Elgato 4k60 mk2, is recognized as display, not my monitor. Hogwarts Legacy and Ghost Recon Wildlands are like this. Is that normal or have I done something wrong? If this is normal, I'll let it go, but if it is fixable, I would like to fix it.

[@Yona-Ek]

so I use and LG C2 as my gaming monitor. so I already use my hdmi port on my gpu to my LG. can I use a display port to hdmi on the 4k60 pro?

[@igobycali5360]

Same situation. Did you find a way to make it work?

[@meljanssen]

Hi, u showed your Monitor should be on GPU and the Capture Card`? Display or GPU`?

[@ayebrian]

Does cloning caused any lag, stutter, or even screen tearing from gaming side?

[@EclipsedWarrior]

I have had this same setup . But is there anyway I can just capture a certain game or screen only and not the entire desktop?

[@RAVisuals]

yes. You just need to make sure you have the screen selected in obs when using a "screen capture" scene

[@EclipsedWarrior]

@@RAVisuals I figured it out I had to un clone my main and elgato 4k then I had to have obs open in my gaming rig as well and do game capture and match all settings. Then on gaming rig I had to select projector thingy . Then on stream pc I had to make a new scene or whatever it’s called and match it with the gaming rig idk seems confusing cause I’m a dummy but I got it lol . I can’t explain well since I’m not home . But there is a way and it works perfect

[@TheThormungandr]

Is there a way to do this if the gaming PC is AMD and the main is Nvidia?

[@nickallison7663]

I’m having the same trouble, I actually tried the “enable clone” on and software and my screen went black, now I can’t figure out how to fix it

[@zircrizzy6037]

Question. If I’m on windows 10 playing at 240hz 1080p. And use a captured card only capable at doing 60hz 1080p. Would that make it to where my main monitor will only allow me to play at 60hz?

[@Benham1]

Hi. My gaming pc only has the hdmi port in my 4090 and not in my actual motherboard. Will it still work if I plug the hdmi in my 4090 along with my dp? Thanks

[@farmerrabbit]

Could you share what deak you are using in your setup. I was looking at something similar perhaps with a kitchen countertop that is about 2.5m to 3 m long.

[@ormondscott191]

I’m have dual monitors. How do my second streaming pc hook to my second monitor. Gpu or Capture Card?

[@NoahMKE]

can i have the elgato in my gaming pc instead of my streaming pc? Because my streaming PC dosn't have the extra PCIe slot for the capture card.

[@magikbrew]

gsync doesn't seem to work after duplicating the displays? Using the HD60X.

[@JohnsonsYeti]

What about the audio?? Does my mic plug into my gaming or streaming PC?

[@RAVisuals]

I have another full video just on audio 🙌

[@OziEggs]

Hi great tutorial worked wonderfully but my audio is audiong if you know what I mean I cant hear my voice in my recording Do I have to plug my mic into the streamcard? I don't want to do that cause I need my mic to talk in game and stuff? is there another fix

[@ohmykay]

I need help I’ve done everything and my 4k 60 card doesn’t show up In obs idk why

[@Xchaynge]

Hey man, followed your direction but I’m running into an issue where the resolution on call of duty is not allowing 4K. Its changing the resolution to my gaming monitor and the game

[@TRUEgotcha]

what about the audio? i have been trying all day to figure it out

[@iTzJakeee]

I’m getting a black box or no signal in my 4k capture utility any suggestions on how to fix that?

[@javierorozco3590]

Hello my friend, great video! I have a question, i record/play/stream from my Acer Nitro 5 laptop, recently i bought a second monitor to play from my nintendo switch, i have the elgato hd60X capture card, but i dont know how i can setup it with my second monitor to play my games there and have OBS open in my laptop monitor at the same time. My monitor only has a VGA and a HDMI port, currently i have my laptop connected to the second monitor via HDMI, i bought a VGA to HDMI converter to try and connect the HD60X to the monitor through it but its not working, i could use some help!

[@javierorozco3590]

before i just recorded and played from the preview window in OBS, thats why i wanted a second monitor but now i cant get it to show the pure game from the HD60X

[@Deftaly]

I game at fullscreen mode. Whenever I clone my display it creates problems on both the capture on stream, and on my display on my gaming pc. The streaming video looks like the bottom part of the video has been dragged to the top (almost like screen tearing). On my gaming pc, my mouse cursor looks gigantic.

[@Logxnfps]

Is there a way you grabbed the audio from your gaming pc through elgato?

[@woll3935]

Hey! I have watched from 06:50- 07:55 i dont know how many times xD I cant get the screen to not be in strech mode.. tried alot of different modes. Aspect Radio / Integer scaling :(

[@boyhelmetgaming2380]

I think most phones now are 16x10. TVs however are still mostly 16x9. I watched this on my phone with blank spaces on my right, but on my TV, it's full screen view

[@n1jim]

Hello, Cloaning both displays will cause lots of screen tearing if we play fast paced games like Call of duty or Apex legends. my only fix to this is extending the displays and from my gaming pc, I open OBS and do full screen projection to the elgato. The issue is opening OBS in the gaming PC will cause some CPU and a bit of frame drops in my gaming PC. Is there a way to clone the displays without having this screen tearing? I heard we can do something with the nvidia control panel related to VSync I believe? I would really appreciate your help on this because I would rather do cloaning that Full screen projection to get the full performance on my gaming PC.

[@RAVisuals]

yes! You can use gsync or gsync compatible if youre using a freesync display with an nvidia gpu.

[@n1jim]

I did that but unfortunately tearing is still there, because I’m sending 1440p 240hz signal to 1440p 144hz. The full screen projection worked but OBS is affecting the gaming stream unfortunately. Maybe I can try the scaling in Nvidia control panel and see

[@UncleKnighthawk]

I also had to use this method. I have an OLED monitor and gameplay doesn’t look as good without HDR, but you can’t enable HDR when cloning.

[@n1jim]

@@UncleKnighthawk i tried everything.. and the best method to avoid game tearing is to do full screen projection. But also u can do passthrough with no performance issue at all

[@UncleKnighthawk]

@@n1jim my gaming monitor is 1440p 240hz, but the capture card can only pass through 120hz at 1440p. So I’ve been using the screen projection method as well.

[@thurmzy]

I have a 1440p 240hz monitor for my gaming pc. But when I clone my Elgato to my monitor it only lets my resolution go to 1920x1080 on my pc monitor. Looks grainy and washed out. How do I fix this?

[@NationJJTV]

Cloning doesn't work if monitor on gaming pc is connected through display port right?

[@KerwynPromoter]

thanks great video setting up my dual pc right now

[@JustSmilinn]

Do I need to use the NVIDIA control panel? I cloned the desktop through the control panel on windows.

[@zerok1897]

I'm using one pc two monitor Monitor 1 show gameplay Monitor 2 show avermedia Recentral4 How I show gameplay on monitor 2 inside Recentral4?

[@donovanbalboa9494]

I’m mine only shows my dell monitor in the first box in the nvidia control panel I have three monitors. So I need one more plugged into my gaming pc the other two are on my streaming pc.

[@donovanbalboa9494]

I’m so confused with this stuff 😂

[@EJayWalker]

I’ve got this set up but OBS only shows 1080 still.. any tips? Gaming pc resolution is correct, so idk why 1440 isn’t showing up.

[@afatsamoan]

Are you using 4k60 elgato? Or HD60?

[@reverse4k802]

Can you make it for single pc? And for razer ripshaw for 2 monitors

[@Kizzab]

Getting stuck when adding video capture device into OBS, have followed all previous steps using Elgato HD60x but the card does not appear under device, only elgato screen link. Any advice?

[@dopestick]

My PC is amd is there anything I should do differently

[@hasnaouiahmed90]

Where should my headset (hyper x QuadCast S) be connected to, my gaming PC or Streaming PC? I want it to be connected to my gaming PC but then elgato 4k is not capturing the microphone, the audio itself is picked up tho, please help

[@jplayzgames_]

Question for you. I have the cam link pro as well. Can I keep that in my gaming pc or does that need to be in the streaming pc as well? I have multiple cameras & using the 4k60 pro as well as the cam link pro would use all the pcie slots I have

[@LainSilkGames]

06:52 Does anyone knows if 4k pro capture card can handle 2k 144hz??

[@joushurivera4956]

Did everything!! But streaming PC not picking up the card on my obs !! 🥹 any tips?

[@frffreport]

So you have obs only on the streaming pc? And not both gaming and streaming pc?

[@RAVisuals]

Correct! Just the streaming PC

[@frffreport]

@RA Visuals not sure what my issue is, I get a black bar that moves during the stream close to center of the screen. Feel like it's either something with the scaling or maybe the fps... Or just callisto protocol being weird with the rendering

[@frffreport]

Just figured it out, my hdmi cord was then problem. Just tried a different hdmi and it's working !

[@TylertheGeek28]

I have a quick question, which KVM are you using? I've tried a few and they've sucked so I'm looking for a good suggestion

[@RAVisuals]

I’m not using a kvm, but rather, a peripheral switch that is just for my keyboard and mouse. It was very cheap from Amazon

[@TylertheGeek28]

@@RAVisuals Would you happen to have a link or brand name you used at least I should take a look at

[@AndresSanchez-qz9mx]

I have a question brother. To connect the streaming pc to the second monitor I only have to conect a HDMI or DisplayPort from the graphic card to the monitor or I have to connect the HDMI from the “out” port of the capture card to the monitor?

[@RAVisuals]

Just to the monitor!

[@AngryD]

Hello. My camera and mic are now in sync, but I show the internet in my stream and my camera and mic is now about 300ms behind the internet. Basically I want to sing along with KZbin but there is a delay between me and the internet. Can you help????

[@stompain7351]

any ideass i have the elgato 60x and a dual pc setup my game transfers over but i cant get the game audio transferred over

[@ChicoGamingYT]

my gaming monitor is 240hz and just got my second pc to set up my dual pc streaming and gaming. My friend has the hd60 s+ from elgato can i use that for my dual pc setup or do i need the lastest one hd60 x? I use streamlabs noy obs i can follow the same steps has you just on streamlabs it will work?

[@vektuma7377]

The HD60 S+ will work just fine.

[@AlbanianPlaya]

I have a 1440p monitor on my gaming pc and a 1080p on my streaming pc. Does my streaming pc monitor have to be 1440p as well for me to record and stream in 1440p?

[@RAVisuals]

Nope! Just depends on the capture card. If your capture card allows 1440p capture then you’re all good

[@AlbanianPlaya]

@@RAVisuals I have the elgato 4k60 mk2 but when I go on streamlabs obs on my streaming monitor the max output is 1080p

[@kamaleyonvt]

here's my biggest issue with my setup when i want to switch to a dual PC setup all of my monitors use display port, and i have 3 monitors, some of my streams involve me using all 3 monitors in OBS at once, so how do i do that i was thinking i could clone all 3 of my display ports to the 1 HDMI port and send that to the second computer somehow, but i don't know please help me solve this, i don't have the option of getting a new graphics card or a new monitor and i have to do all of this WITHOUT the NVidia control panel, because it just doesn't want to work

[@danielzhang5688]

HELP!!!!! what do i do, my screen went black after i cloned the screen in the video 6:35? I tried everything to fix it nothing works.

[@Jizzler1]

So am I able to record any video at 4k on any pc or do I need a supported gpu for that

[@RAVisuals]

With this capture card you should be able to record in 4k provided you have a monitor that supports that resolution and a GPU to drive that monitor

[@freppen92]

hi. i have a problem. every time i open a game, my cursur enlarge alot. i have a 27 inch monitor and 1440p. elgato m2.

[@TechGarbidges]

Hello there and thanks for the gre at work! i did everyting as u mentioned and works like charm ! though i came up with something, when i close the game or alt tab in the gaming pc the display goes in and out like instant smooth zooming. Is that normal or is something i can fix?

[@ItsMRKIN-wl7pj]

i cant hear anything on my stream after i do this. do i need some audio software or something idk what to do

[@santiagoperaza967]

At minute 8:38 that’s your gaming PC or streaming PC ?

[@cvrsify]

Question for anyone that sees this. I wanna stream at 1080p 60fps. I play in 240hz though. Which capture card should i get for that? I see some capture cards that support up to 144hz and such but is that really necessary if im not planning to stream in anything higher then 60fps on twitch?

[@themeez1000]

I run the Razer Ripsaw HD and highly recommend it.

[@GONTE_YT]

So SCALED output pc is 1080p max and my gaming pc (canvas)is 1440p. I need to put canvas at 1080p???

[@Dr_Angry]

Ok so I've done all this on my hd60s pro. How do i make it where i can hear my obs alerts on my gaming pc headset?

[@KruellNationGaming]

You would have to connect your sound cards together with a 3.5mm male to male cable. Go from the recording PC line out to the gaming PC line in on your sounds cards.

[@Dr_Angry]

@KruellNationGaming appreciate this however i figured it out without the 3.5mm cords

[@Marcopolo44]

Question? If you wanted to add an console to the dual pc how would you do that?

[@REALKS2]

I don’t want to buy a second pc. Is it possible to substitute the second pc with a MacBook Pro or anything other than that

[@SpookyLone]

yes but will not have this card as one your able to use...its internal. you'd have to get an external card .Hd 60s+ i think that's a good one.

[@Lentozz]

everytime I alt tab out of a fullscreen game my gaming pc goes black and it stays black for about 5/8 seconds. My entire pc freezes and discord sound is cut out. Is there any way to fix this issue?

[@lethal36]

I'm having an issue when I'm on my gaming pc the mouse goes off the right side of my screen like if there's a monitor there ifk what to do

[@ItsHawkTTV]

I get this issue with mine when I enter a game in full screen the gaming monitor goes black takes a second then the resolution goes to 800x600. I can not find anything about this. I use a 4090 on gaming and 3060ti on stream pc. is there someone I can reach out to and show in more depth?

[@eddsboi9352]

If my gaming pc is a laptop when I plug my headphones in on the gaming pc the audio does not capture on streaming pc

[@Poppi3579]

Which pc do you have the goxlr software on?

[@barbuceanu2005]

Hi ! Thank you for the detailed tutorial. I am interested in a 2 PC setup in order to do frame interpolation on the second PC. So if I play a game at 4k@30fps on the main PC, I would like to increase the fps on the second PC through frame interpolation with something like SVP (Smooth Video Project). Would you think something like that is possible ?

[@michael1891ful]

How do you get your warzone game audio to be heard thru stream without go XLR?

[@bUlkYb0y97]

Did you figure it out?

[@slymitch6758]

My gaming monitor is 1440p but my streaming pc monitor is a 1080p. will that be an issue?

[@nextggz]

Where should I have my Capture Card connected to? My streaming PC or Gaming PC. I can't seem to have it work with the audio yet.

[@GingerBradMan21]

what if i have a weird refresh rate and resolution like, 5120x1440 240 hz

[@salt4353]

Hey great video, thanks What computer case is that?

[@RAVisuals]

Thank you so much! I have both of the cases listed in the description of the video!

[@ChaotixAsbestos]

is there difference between cloning in gpu drivers compared just in windows desktop settings

[@therealhena1544]

HELP did everything step by step, the issue is that when i use my k&m switch to my gaming pc the stream gets no audio, but if i switch it over to streaming pc stream gets audio, but i get no audio on my headset.

[@Amy_atoms]

Did u figure this out?

[@therealhena1544]

@@Amy_atoms yeah i did

[@puddingknight]

At 8:30 are we doing the obs settings on our gaming PC or thee stream PC? Nevermind i am the dumb and figured it out

[@JustSmilinn]

Which was it?

[@puddingknight]

@@JustSmilinn stream PC

[@luisbaldaia9897]

So this way im streaming my whole pc not just the game if i alt + tab everyone can see it ... anyway to fix this

[@kingdonniemoe]

As someone who streams and records both PC and Console how you recommend me accomplish this ?

[@RAVisuals]

You can absolutely do this with a console too! You just have to link the console with the streaming pc. The audio with a console is much simpler because it comes over an hdmi typically

[@rfyaaful]

what about sound? how do you set up sound?

[@Jad941]

First of all thank you for the videos , they are so helpful ! For anyone reading this, I'm trying to do a dual PC setup similar to this. Do you need a kvm switch to switch between 2 pcs and 2 monitors with 1set of keyboard/mouse? Or does the capture card does it?

[@ExSpell3d]

If you do capture card to your gaming monitor it will allow you to click as if it were the same monitor. Or at least for me it did.

[@xXWillsW1LYXx]

is there no way that you can set up a custom capture window so you can still game in ultrawide but the stream only captures the 16:9 aspect ratio portion in the middle?

[@marvean2519]

Do you use Gsync with this method?

[@boristeplitskiy7632]

I don’t have a video signal. Iam using a display port to hdmi to the elgato.

[@KruellNationGaming]

Unless you have the GoXLR or Banana running on the recording PC, I don't see how you record to separate audio tracks? Since the only cable connecting the PCs is the HDMI, the HDMI only supports one audio stream and it is going to combine ALL audio into one track. right? your voice, your game audio, your discord buddies on their own channel and if you have other PC in the same room playing recording, you would need another Elgatoo and sound card to keep the audio separate. If you don't separate ALLLLL those audio channels then you are going to end up with one audio channel and its extremely hard to edit out audio you don't want, especially when multiple sounds are going off at the same time.

[@RagedFPS]

Will this method allow me to stream at a lower resolution (1080p 60) while still gaming at 1440p 240hz?

[@Heracullum]

You can technically use OBS to set the output resolution you want to use and fps as well

[@knotsken]

but duplicating/extending screens adds input delay. and i noticed it when gaming..

[@gcash9372]

How would throw a console into this set up?

[@hanskrans8937]

Can you install it into your gaming pc and make it work with your streaming pc?

[@opdominik]

Could you do the same but for audio?

[@sukebanichigo7331]

what about teaching us how to get HDMI sound from one pc to the other

[@nick.dedmor7504]

Thing is when you clone the display then the main monitor of the gaming pc looks a bit washed out or like the quality has dropped. What about that?

[@RAVisuals]

I don't notice this issue. My settings go over just as their supposed to be. What capture card are you using?

[@EGOS42]

Are you using HDR on your display? Most cards are unable to capture 10 or 12 bit HDR. Your Graphics card may be able to sense that the capture card cannot accept HDR and would send a standard dynamic range conversion as the clone output which typically looks very gray and washed out. If that's not it you may have a mismatch between full range RGB and limited range RGB. This setting is part of standard dynamic range separate from HDR. Full uses black levels from 0-255, lmited values from 16-235. Ideally you'll be using full range on your GPU and monitor. Even if you are using limited on both of those you need to look at the settings for your capture card to ensure it matches what the gaming PC is outputting.

[@JordyDona]

What do you do when your gaming monitor is 1440 240hz

[@actuallyactivas3698]

do i need to worry about screen tearing with this method ?

[@Chicken_CS]

I have a 1440p 240hz , what capture card can i use?

[@StromStrikerYT]

I tried this but nothing is showing up on my monitors 😢

[@sharanramkorun9143]

Hi , could you do a video please on best budget cameras or just good ones for beginners to start out with ? Thanks

[@RAVisuals]

Definitely on my list of things to do for streaming videos

[@dewy02gamingnxr82]

What should the settings be on the 4k capture utility