Multiple people, single tower

[GuyWhoGamedOnAn2011Laptop]

So I was watching some LTT videos, as you do, and I watched his old video titled "2 Gaming Rigs, 1 Tower".  It got me thinking.  Could someone like me, who doesn't know nearly as much about computers as Linus or most people on this forum, do the same thing so me, my brother, and my friend could all be playing the same game, at the same time while in multiplayer?  Just how hard is it to do what Linus did in his video?  Also, could I record our three separate screens, with a facecam for each of us, and be able to keep them independent of each other?  What would be all of the components needed be?

This is just a little idea I'm floating right now because we're planning on making a gaming Youtube channel (to add to the thousands already out there lol) and it'd be cool to build just one system that three people could play on at the same time instead of having to build another 2 decent gaming PCs for my brother and my friend.

[Mephi00]

The only really difficult thing is to pay for the parts and the settings in unraid

[GoldenLag]

you will be better of using 3 different PCs and a capture card to record on the main PC, and one of them CPU encoding it all into OBS. like an 2950x main PC encoding footage from all the other ones. 

 

 

 

[Mephi00]

3 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

you will be better of using 3 different PCs and a capture card to record on the main PC, and one of them CPU encoding it all into OBS. like an 2950x main PC encoding footage from all the other ones. 

 

 

 

Yea 

but a 2950x is overkill for some video encoding, which is easily cuda accelerated, so you basically need some sort of cpu from the last 5yrs and a gpu 

[GoldenLag]

Just now, Mephi00 said:

Yea 

but a 2950x is overkill for some video encoding, which is easily cuda accelerated, so you basically need some sort of cpu from the last 5yrs and a gpu 

Cuda encoding involves loss of quality and will most likely struggle encoding 3 1080p 30/60 fps footage + 720p webcams at once.

 

Cuda encoding is nice, Same with VCE, but CPU encoding is where its at. 

 

while i can agree 2950x is sort of overkill, you will most likely be playing on it and you will need some extra horses to handle the extra encoding. you can probably get away with 1920x/2920x

[Mephi00]

2 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

Cuda encoding involves loss of quality and will most likely struggle encoding 3 1080p 30/60 fps footage + 720p webcams at once.

 

Cuda encoding is nice, Same with VCE, but CPU encoding is where its at. 

 

while i can agree 2950x is sort of overkill, you will most likely be playing on it and you will need some extra horses to handle the extra encoding. you can probably get away with 1920x/2920x

I tried only cpu encoding in obs , but however i set my settings it still uses the gpu to encode abd leaves my 9900k idleing or 50% load in games

[GoldenLag]

1 minute ago, Mephi00 said:

I tried only cpu encoding in obs , but however i set my settings it still uses the gpu to encode abd leaves my 9900k idleing or 50% load in games

so you still GPU encoded. GTX cards have an limit to number of things it can encode using its ASIC. it being 2 displays afaik. 

 

if you have an 9900k you really should start using CPU encoding, unless you dont mind the few gripes with ASIC encoding. 

[Mephi00]

1 minute ago, GoldenLag said:

so you still GPU encoded. GTX cards have an limit to number of things it can encode using its ASIC. it being 2 displays afaik. 

 

if you have an 9900k you really should start using CPU encoding, unless you dont mind the few gripes with ASIC encoding. 

I tried to get my settings sorted, but even on h264 my gpu is used by obs, even if dont use the preview

[GoldenLag]

5 minutes ago, Mephi00 said:

I tried to get my settings sorted, but even on h264 my gpu is used by obs, even if dont use the preview

im gonna assume that is just normal behavior as the ASIC shouldnt be doing anything when the CPU is doing the encoding.

[Mephi00]

5 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

im gonna assume that is just normal behavior as the ASIC shouldnt be doing anything when the CPU is doing the encoding.

The only problem is that it looks like the cpu does not encode, but lets get back to the original question

[GoldenLag]

Just now, Mephi00 said:

The only problem is that it looks like the cpu does not encode, but lets get back to the original question

probably hardware accelerating for no good reason, ive heard OBS doing that.

 

 

 

id do a master PC with a 1950x/2920x/2950x and 2 slave PCs with r5 2600 (or some other CPU). then have GPUs for each one and add capture cards to capture all the footage to the master PC for encoding and recording. 

[Mephi00]

2 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

probably hardware accelerating for no good reason, ive heard OBS doing that.

 

 

 

id do a master PC with a 1950x/2920x/2950x and 2 slave PCs with r5 2600 (or some other CPU). then have GPUs for each one and add capture cards to capture all the footage to the master PC for encoding and recording. 

Id go with an i5 for the slaves, because thats the way to get the best gaming performance, although you cant really use it for something different than gaming

[GoldenLag]

2 minutes ago, Mephi00 said:

Id go with an i5 for the slaves, because thats the way to get the best gaming performance, although you cant really use it for something different than gaming

Id go with the r5 simply because its cheaper, has drop in replacements, and allows you to spend more money on the GPUs

[Mephi00]

4 hours ago, GoldenLag said:

Id go with the r5 simply because its cheaper, has drop in replacements, and allows you to spend more money on the GPUs

Basically its about how mich money to spent and what kind of performance expectations you have