Game streaming might seem to be easy until you actually do it. Then you checked your stream and noticed something is not right – the quality doesn’t look good, or the stream is stuttering, or worst, both. What you can do is either upgrade your PC, or buy another PC specifically built for streaming. Upgrading your PC “usually” solve these problems, that depends on the components you upgraded. But still, gaming and streaming in the same PC will at one point give you trouble and prevent you to fully enjoy gaming while streaming.
Why Do You Need 2 PCs for Streaming
Adding another PC for streaming takes away the streaming load from your gaming PC thus maximizing to potential of your gaming PC, resulting to smoother gaming experience without worrying for stuttering and FPS drops. This is most beneficial if you don’t have a not so powerful gaming PC and wants to play with high quality graphics possible. Another benefit is that you can tweak your streaming PC specifically for better quality, again, without the worries of FPS drops in your stream. Interacting with your viewers is also easier since you don’t have to switch back and forth between your game and your stream.
OBS Teleport
OBS Teleport is an OBS plugin that allows you to transmit scenes running in your OBS to another PC through local area network (LAN), that includes audio and video. And that scene is the scene that is going to fed in the streaming PC for live streaming. The main benefit is its simplicity, no need for the capture cards and cables to send audio and video from your gaming PC to your streaming PC. Just make sure your network router and cables can handle the load to transmit high quality audio and video.
At 1280×720 with 30 fps, you can get away with non-gigabit routers and Cat-5 ethernet cables as the signals sent/received is only 66 Mbps. But once you up the FPS to 60, or increase the resolution to 1920×1080, the signals reached 136 to 138 Mbps – you are now required to have gigabit router and at least Cat-5e cables. Sending audio and video at 1920×1080 with 60 fps reached 257 Mbps through the network, so if you want better quality and higher fps for your stream you will also need to upgrade your router and ethernet cables.
Installation
1. Open your browser and got to https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/teleport.1445/, then click the Go to download button.
2. You will be redirected to the OBS Teleport plugin download page. Click the obs-teleport.zip link to download the plugin.
3. After downloading, open the downloaded zip file from your browser,
or go to the Downloads folder then double-click the obs-teleport.zip file.
4. Your zip file manager ( 7zip in our case ) will open the obs-teleport.zip. Double-click the appropriate operating system ( Windows for this guide ) then double-click the Teleport.exe file.
5. Microsoft Defender SmartScreen window will pop-up. Click the More info button then click the Run anyway button.
6. OBS Teleport Setup will appear. Click the I Agree button, then the Install button to start the installation.
7. Click the Close button after the installation.
Do all of these on both of your Gaming/Main PC and Streaming PC.
Enabling Teleport in Gaming PC
8. In OBS, go to Settings then Video tab. Set the Base and Output Resolutions based on the resolution of your game. If you play at 1366×768 resolution, set the Base and Output resolutions to 136xx768.
9. Set the Common FPS Values to 60 or 30 then click Apply and finally the OK button. This will also be the value on your streaming PC.
10. Go to Tools tab and click Teleport.
11. Properties for Teleport will appear. Click the Teleport Enabled checkbox, fill in the Identifier field (e.g., Gaming PC), then click the OK button. You can also adjust quality but we stick to 90 for this guide.
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- When Teleport plugin is enabled, you can’t change the Video settings, that is why we setup it up first before enabling the Teleport plugin.
12. Play the game you want to stream.
13. Back in OBS (press ALT + TAB), add a Game Capture source. Name it with game you are playing in Create New field, enable the Make source visible option then click the OK button.
14. Set the Properties with similar values and settings from the screenshot then click the OK button.
15. Continue playing the game.
Feeding the Game into Livestreaming PC
16. In your livestreaming PC, set up your scenes and sources. But instead of Game Capture Source, replace it with Teleport.
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- You don’t need to setup the microphone, audio is also fed via Teleport.
17. In the Create/Select Source window, name the Teleport source in the Create new field, enable the Make source visible then click the OK button.
If Windows Defender Firewall popped-up, click the Allow access button.
18. On Teleport properties window, click the Refresh list button then click the drop-down list, select the Gaming PC and click the OK button.
19. When you’re ready and everything is set, you can now start streaming.
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