On the gaming PC, right click on the desktop and select Display Settings to open the Windows display optionsģ. Your gaming monitor should be connected to the same GPU via DisplayPort cableĢ. Initial setupġ.Using an HDMI cable, connect the HDMI output of the GPU in the gaming PC to the HDMI input on the capture card that is connected to the streaming PC Note that in this setup, the gaming monitor has a resolution of 2560×1440 commonly known as 1440p. With this method OBS Studio does the scaling of the video and frame rate for you. Want to play in 1440p240Hz or 4K120Hz? That’s fine too. Want to play in 4K but your capture card only supports 1080p? That’s fine. The great thing about this setup is that you no longer depend on your capture card needing to capture a specific resolution. This is not resource intensive as no actual video encoding is happening on the gaming PC. The idea behind this is that OBS Studio captures the game and using its preview, projects it onto the capture card.

Note that this only covers Video at this time. This guide will walk you through how to setup a dual-PC stream with a capture card using OBS Studio on the gaming PC.

Obs studio monitor capture