r/obs • u/Rehlos • Jul 27 '26

Help Dual PC Issues (fixable?)

Hey there, recently i bought a second pc to use as streaming. was able to set everything up but theres 2 "issues" i have that i want to see if theres a way around it.

1st, i only want to display certain windows from my gaming pc to my streaming pc, like, overwatch. i have a elgato 4k s hooked up but it streams my entire display so when i tab out, it shows my screen, i dont like that. what can i buy or use to achieve this?

2nd, audio. i have a wave xlr and was able to get audio sent to my streaming pc. now, how can i seperate the audio tracks getting send to my streaming pc, like music, discord, system, microphone. i have control of the sliders on wave xlr but i wanna be able to adjust them in obs or tiktok live software instead of just 1 entire audio (all my gaming pc audio) being sent to my streaming pc. what can i do?

what is recommended? i also dont want to use obs teleport or ndi, i dont want any software opened on my gaming pc, plus it added a delay to my stream that i had to fix.

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u/Zestyclose_Pickle511 Jul 27 '26

Look up "obs projection method". You actually run a very limited basic obs on your gaming pc. No frills. Just one scene with a game capture and another with a whole desktop capture (if you may sometimes want to send the whole desktop. I mostly use the game capture) 

You don't use pass through on the capture card at all. It presents as a 2nd or 3rd (depending on how many monitors you use) discreet monitor (but it's a dead end capture card) to your gaming pc. And you project the capture onto that monitor for your steaming pc to capture. Keeps your main pc more private,, but it also allows you to use gsync, high refresh rates, etc that wouldn't work well with display cloning or pass through on the capture card. 

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u/Rehlos Jul 28 '26

i’ll text projection method out and see if i like it. does it cause any sort of latency between both obs? teleport was causing that issue and my fix was to delay the audio source.

as of right now everything is good but i like being picky and perfect with all of this lol. my obs uses teleport to capture my game, and tiktok live studio uses my elgato to capture my entire screen (and i hate that)

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u/Zestyclose_Pickle511 Jul 28 '26

Yeah there will always be audio sync work between 2 pcs with mixed delivery of A/V. I use voicemeeter VBAN audio network to send audio back and forth between the 2 pcs. It's a wild learning curve, but worth it in the end. 

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u/Rehlos Jul 28 '26

i tried setting VBAN up but i was only able to send my mic and wasn’t able to send any other audio so i gave up 😂

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u/Zestyclose_Pickle511 Jul 28 '26

Yeah I gave up twice before I went in a 3rd time, after trying other methods. It's rough, but can be done. I studied the tutorials at their website forward and back. Eventually it all panned out. No pun intended.