First piece of advice for any question/issue many people have in OBS/SLOBS is to run OBS/SLOBS as administrator (rIght-click on program and click "Run as Administrator") for CPU/GPU performance issues, check your video settings and ensure your base canvas is the set to the resolution of your monitor or if you use stretch resolution, set it to the resolution of what you have it custom set to and keep the output resolution to the resolution you want to output to your stream (most use 1280x720 when running on a 1920x1080 monitor playing the game at the same) I use a 2560x1440p monitor and play at that so my base canvas is 2560x1440 and output is 1920x1080. For audio, you have two options, you can either go into settings and choose your Desktop Audio Device and Aux/Mic Device and set it there and then have to go and set your bitrate for audio and whatnot, OR you can go to Add Source and add an Audio Input Capture and select your microphone and then go to Add Source and add an Audio Output Capture and not have to worry about your audio settings. this also gives you the ability to turn them down separately. Another thing is ALWAYS turn Preview off while streaming as it uses less resources having to produce an image for you to see. When you're gaming you aren't looking at it and if you need to for some reason, create a hotkey to toggle it on and off as needed. Dual monitors are awesome because they can divide workloads in certain scenarios, if you run an Nvidia RTX card (unsure if GTX do it too I can't remember) and are using a Laptop, then the RTX card will become strictly attached to the monitor and the integrated Intel Graphics 630* iGPU will stay with the laptops display so when extending displays, whatever is being shown on the external monitor will be tasked by the RTX GPU. Also, Nvidia Control Panel should be setup for any game you are playing to be ran by the Nvidia Processor NOT auto-choose. Also if you run an Nvidia GPU, in stream settings or output settings, make sure to run using the NVIDIA NVENC (new) encoder. Bitrate is going to be different based on your internet connection because if you set it too high on slow connection, then you're going to affect the game as well hogging bandwidth, too low and the game will look crappy. I may be forgetting some simple overlooked things. But hit me up if you have any issues. If I don't know the answer, I'll try to point you in the right direction.
Broooo, I had this same issue with my dual monitor setup and I just gave up trying to work around it, after troubleshooting for days. Thank you! I’m gonna try using game capture.
nice one bro, found this cuz was having this issue streaming csgo, because of the shitty update that you can't capture with game capture anymore, and the only way to stream is with display capture... didn't solve my problem but at least now i know why this happens and a temporary solution, thanks a lot though
that sucks :/ just fyi if you have like BTTV for example that has GIF emotes those animations seem to trigger the refresh rate thing too. I was running a pop-out chat window on the other screen and discovered this.
I have it the other way around 60hz monitor is where obs is 144hz is where i am gaming When using game capture it lags But when using display capture its smooth, though this is only happening through cod warzone. Thanks for the video though
its because one graphic card cant handle two different monitors. its streaming signal in 144hz or 60hz. it cant do both at the same time. you need to have two 144hz monitors or just play at 60hz (i know it sux hard :D ). I have tested it once and you can bypass it sometimes. Set everything you want - chat, discord whatever you want have on that 60hz monitor and then set 144hz in nvidia control panel. BUT! Dont click, drag or do anything from now with that second monitor, once you click/drag anything there you will be back at 60hz again and that black screen is happening to me too. sometimes it can be fixed by closing streamlabs/obs or launching in administrator mode.
Just for people reading this year's later; above statement is 100% factually not true. A graphics card can and does run multiple monitors at different refresh rates. It's not even up to the GPU. The monitor dictates the refresh rate, not the GPU. I have 3 monitors, 2 of them at 60hz and 1 of them at 165hz. When dragging Windows on the desktop (which is GPU accelerated since Windows Vista) you can clearly see a difference in smoothness.
@@easyboarder Does this problem still exist? I’m planning to stream with my gaming laptop that has a 144hz display and use a external 60hz monitor for obs, i need to do something or is the problem currently solved?
@@HD1080PH I've never encountered, seen or heard of the problem in this video to be honest. Refresh rate is something the monitor dictates. I stream too, my main monitor is 165hz and the other two are 60hz which I'm using OBS on. I do recommend using game capture for a couple of reasons though. Over all its just a more clean experience for your viewers, not seeing every pop-up steam might give you for instance. I've added a display capture source for when I want to show desktop which I enable when needed. Good luck, and have fun! :)
@@easyboarder Thank you, one more question, how many FPS do you lose when capturing a game while streaming? I always use the game capture and lose about 10 FPS, btw I’m using NVENC as encoder with a 2060, but in my first times i used the display capture and i lose a lot more, like 40-50 FPS (I tested it with fortnite and in a part of the map when I normally would have 200FPS I was getting 150-160), i currently use the game capture of course, but is normal that the display capture decrease that much the performance? Or is a problem with my configuration?
@@HD1080PH always expect fps loss when streaming, since your graphics card not only had to render a game, it also had to encode it. Luckily you have an Nvidia card, those work best especially with the nvenc option. There's no solid number for performance loss, since it depends on a great deal of factors like the game, settings, stream settings, background processes, complexity of your OBS setup and many more. Display capture has a more heavy hit on performance because game capture only needs to focus on one window (and there's other technical reasons). But yes, the performance decrease with display capture is nothing new :) I recommend just testing streaming simply by starting the game + OBS and streaming the game through Discord to simulate a Twitch/UA-cam stream. Happy streaming bro!
Hey I'm curious if you can help with my issue? My stream labs OBS I can capture and stream all my games except ring of Elysium.....it won't show up on stream just says looking for game to capture
Either they've fixed this as of sep 2020 or there's a possible issue with how your obs is setup in comparison to my own as I have no issues using display capture with obs on my 2nd 60hz screen when gaming on my 144hz one, and i am very ocd about my refresh rate as i can very clearly notice when its lower than 144, and i have 2 60hz secondary monitors total. Hopefully its because they fixed it but if you're still having the issue it shouldn't be happening. It is possible it could be game related but I do play quite afew games and none have this issue as of yet, that being said I've only been using display capture for about 2 months so it may still come around to bite me.
Actually thats an issue with how the games being run. You need to add it to display settings-graphic setttings, and browse for the .exe for the game. Then change between power saving or high performance. That made any games that didn't show on obs work
If you run OBS / OBS studio “as administrator” you can use game capture on any game.
First piece of advice for any question/issue many people have in OBS/SLOBS is to run OBS/SLOBS as administrator (rIght-click on program and click "Run as Administrator") for CPU/GPU performance issues, check your video settings and ensure your base canvas is the set to the resolution of your monitor or if you use stretch resolution, set it to the resolution of what you have it custom set to and keep the output resolution to the resolution you want to output to your stream (most use 1280x720 when running on a 1920x1080 monitor playing the game at the same) I use a 2560x1440p monitor and play at that so my base canvas is 2560x1440 and output is 1920x1080. For audio, you have two options, you can either go into settings and choose your Desktop Audio Device and Aux/Mic Device and set it there and then have to go and set your bitrate for audio and whatnot, OR you can go to Add Source and add an Audio Input Capture and select your microphone and then go to Add Source and add an Audio Output Capture and not have to worry about your audio settings. this also gives you the ability to turn them down separately. Another thing is ALWAYS turn Preview off while streaming as it uses less resources having to produce an image for you to see. When you're gaming you aren't looking at it and if you need to for some reason, create a hotkey to toggle it on and off as needed. Dual monitors are awesome because they can divide workloads in certain scenarios, if you run an Nvidia RTX card (unsure if GTX do it too I can't remember) and are using a Laptop, then the RTX card will become strictly attached to the monitor and the integrated Intel Graphics 630* iGPU will stay with the laptops display so when extending displays, whatever is being shown on the external monitor will be tasked by the RTX GPU. Also, Nvidia Control Panel should be setup for any game you are playing to be ran by the Nvidia Processor NOT auto-choose. Also if you run an Nvidia GPU, in stream settings or output settings, make sure to run using the NVIDIA NVENC (new) encoder. Bitrate is going to be different based on your internet connection because if you set it too high on slow connection, then you're going to affect the game as well hogging bandwidth, too low and the game will look crappy. I may be forgetting some simple overlooked things. But hit me up if you have any issues. If I don't know the answer, I'll try to point you in the right direction.
YOU JUST SAVED MY LIFE HOLY CRAP THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
This is interesting !
Did you run OBS as Administrator ? or disabled preview on OBS ? because this findings is pretty shocking !
great video brutha, my secondary display is actually my laptop screen, I set that at 144hz to match the main screen, now it all works well enough.
I been looking for this by weeks!!! thnks!!!
Broooo, I had this same issue with my dual monitor setup and I just gave up trying to work around it, after troubleshooting for days. Thank you! I’m gonna try using game capture.
I spent hours and had no solutions thanks!!
nice one bro, found this cuz was having this issue streaming csgo, because of the shitty update that you can't capture with game capture anymore, and the only way to stream is with display capture...
didn't solve my problem but at least now i know why this happens and a temporary solution, thanks a lot though
that sucks :/ just fyi if you have like BTTV for example that has GIF emotes those animations seem to trigger the refresh rate thing too. I was running a pop-out chat window on the other screen and discovered this.
run as administrator maybe
Good content. Deserves more attention.
thank you so much i was trying to fix streaming cs go and this fixed it all!
This should get more subs
I have it the other way around
60hz monitor is where obs is
144hz is where i am gaming
When using game capture it lags
But when using display capture its smooth, though this is only happening through cod warzone. Thanks for the video though
its because one graphic card cant handle two different monitors. its streaming signal in 144hz or 60hz. it cant do both at the same time. you need to have two 144hz monitors or just play at 60hz (i know it sux hard :D ). I have tested it once and you can bypass it sometimes. Set everything you want - chat, discord whatever you want have on that 60hz monitor and then set 144hz in nvidia control panel. BUT! Dont click, drag or do anything from now with that second monitor, once you click/drag anything there you will be back at 60hz again
and that black screen is happening to me too. sometimes it can be fixed by closing streamlabs/obs or launching in administrator mode.
Just for people reading this year's later; above statement is 100% factually not true. A graphics card can and does run multiple monitors at different refresh rates. It's not even up to the GPU. The monitor dictates the refresh rate, not the GPU. I have 3 monitors, 2 of them at 60hz and 1 of them at 165hz. When dragging Windows on the desktop (which is GPU accelerated since Windows Vista) you can clearly see a difference in smoothness.
@@easyboarder Does this problem still exist? I’m planning to stream with my gaming laptop that has a 144hz display and use a external 60hz monitor for obs, i need to do something or is the problem currently solved?
@@HD1080PH I've never encountered, seen or heard of the problem in this video to be honest. Refresh rate is something the monitor dictates. I stream too, my main monitor is 165hz and the other two are 60hz which I'm using OBS on. I do recommend using game capture for a couple of reasons though. Over all its just a more clean experience for your viewers, not seeing every pop-up steam might give you for instance. I've added a display capture source for when I want to show desktop which I enable when needed. Good luck, and have fun! :)
@@easyboarder Thank you, one more question, how many FPS do you lose when capturing a game while streaming? I always use the game capture and lose about 10 FPS, btw I’m using NVENC as encoder with a 2060, but in my first times i used the display capture and i lose a lot more, like 40-50 FPS (I tested it with fortnite and in a part of the map when I normally would have 200FPS I was getting 150-160), i currently use the game capture of course, but is normal that the display capture decrease that much the performance? Or is a problem with my configuration?
@@HD1080PH always expect fps loss when streaming, since your graphics card not only had to render a game, it also had to encode it. Luckily you have an Nvidia card, those work best especially with the nvenc option. There's no solid number for performance loss, since it depends on a great deal of factors like the game, settings, stream settings, background processes, complexity of your OBS setup and many more. Display capture has a more heavy hit on performance because game capture only needs to focus on one window (and there's other technical reasons). But yes, the performance decrease with display capture is nothing new :) I recommend just testing streaming simply by starting the game + OBS and streaming the game through Discord to simulate a Twitch/UA-cam stream. Happy streaming bro!
Hey I'm curious if you can help with my issue? My stream labs OBS I can capture and stream all my games except ring of Elysium.....it won't show up on stream just says looking for game to capture
Either they've fixed this as of sep 2020 or there's a possible issue with how your obs is setup in comparison to my own as I have no issues using display capture with obs on my 2nd 60hz screen when gaming on my 144hz one, and i am very ocd about my refresh rate as i can very clearly notice when its lower than 144, and i have 2 60hz secondary monitors total. Hopefully its because they fixed it but if you're still having the issue it shouldn't be happening. It is possible it could be game related but I do play quite afew games and none have this issue as of yet, that being said I've only been using display capture for about 2 months so it may still come around to bite me.
Def not. I have been having this issue with my 360hz and 60hz monitors. Glad I found this video
Actually thats an issue with how the games being run. You need to add it to display settings-graphic setttings, and browse for the .exe for the game. Then change between power saving or high performance. That made any games that didn't show on obs work
interesting. I'll mess with this and see if it works
is this still an issue?
yep it still does this
dude, you just have to run obs as admin to solve the destiny 2 situation ;)