#Setting up elgato hd60 1080p#
#Setting up elgato hd60 software#
#Setting up elgato hd60 Pc#

I can see the status of the twitch stream, and adjust anything I might want, without interrupting the game itself.

Easy-peasy.ДЄt this point, I can turn on a twitch stream of my gaming machine without doing anything on the gaming PC, and especially without impacting the performance of whatever is happening on it. On the second PC, I use VoiceMeeter to take the network stream in and direct it into OBS as a separate audio track.

#Setting up elgato hd60 Pc#

Then, I take the mic input, leave it as the computer mic input, but also set it to stream out to the second PC over the network. Using VoiceMeeter on the game machine, I take the computer audio in and send it to both my headphones and to the HDMI output to the streaming PC. Voicemeeter lets you mix multiple sources in to two output channels, and stream one or both to other machines where they can be received by Voicemeeter or simple VBAN Receptors

#Setting up elgato hd60 software#

Which is where a neat little piece of software called VB-Audio VoiceMeeter come in. Similarly, I needed to get my mic to go into both machines (so it can go into game chat on the game machine, and be controlled as a separate audio track in OBS on the streaming machine). I needed to get the audio from the game to go over both HDMI and to my headphones (Windows doesn't generally support sending the audio to two outputs simultaneously). With the video going over HDMI to the capture PC, the final problem was audio. I'm using an Intel Realsense capture camera on the off chance I ever want to put my face in a stream (which I admit is very unlikely, but hey, the camera was sitting there, so I figured I'd see what it looked like set up, using the depth camera to create a 'virtual green screen' mix). A bit fuzzy compared to 1080p, but pretty good mix of quality and resolution at that bit rate. I've got it set for 851p 50Hz using ~4Mpbs. On the capture machine, I'm running OBS to stream to twitch. The downsampling (resolution and rate) happens on the GPU, so it doesn't seem to have any noticable performance negative impact.

#Setting up elgato hd60 1080p#

Plus, the HD60 Pro has Elgato's 'Master Copy' feature, which will save a full-resolution copy of whatever is being streamed, independent of the stream.ДЄ nice feature of the relatively recent Windows 10 builds in that I can send 1080p 60Hz over HDMI from the main PC to the streaming PC, even though it's mirroring my main gaming monitor at either 4k 165 Hz or 1080p 165Hz. Especially since my crappy internet connection is only 7Mbps up, so it's not like I can stream 4k video anyway.

My spare PC has an i5 and dual GTX 960 cards, so my choice was to spend more ~$300 on the 4K60 and another ~$500 on a new processor and card, or spend ~$160 on the HD60 that works just fine in this old machine. Which sounds great, but it requires (at a minimum) a high end i7 processor and at least a GTX 1060 card.

In Jayne's video he recommends the Elgato 4K60 Pro because it'll capture 4k 60Hz (vs 1080p 60Hz for the HD60 Pro). Making this work required a mix of hardware and a software.ДЇirst and foremost, I put an Elgato HD60 Pro capture card in the second PC. (I suggest all my grown-up friends, who find my gaming hobby silly, move along to some more serious article.) Left monitor is streaming PC, middle is main PC (mostly used for gaming), right is VR machine. I learned a few things along the way, which others might find useful, so I thought I'd share. I goofed around with this over the last few weekends, using a second PC I had laying about as the streaming PC. I was intrigued, since streaming and recording 3D and VR content, without bogging down the machine creating the content, has been a goal of mine, but I'd never found any good advice that seemed trustworthy before. I suggest reading both, as the newer ones build on this one.ДЄ few weeks back, I posted a link to a video Jayne had posted about his dual-PC twitch streaming setup. UPDATE: I have a newer post on this topic that is a more comprehensive discussion of how I converted this to a triple-PC/Mac setup and dealt with camera and audio sharing.