OBS (Full screen projector FPS drops)

[Deactrals]

When full screen projecting my gaming monitor to a virtual display (capture card) my game has fps drops. Not spiking necessarily, but when playing it's mostly fine, for about 1-2 minutes and eventually it spikes down from my usual 100 + fps down to 80. This combined with a 144hz monitor ensures I have a horrible experience. 

[mr fobs]

Just now, Deactrals said:

When full screen projecting my gaming monitor to a virtual display (capture card) my game has fps drops. Not spiking necessarily, but when playing it's mostly fine, for about 1-2 minutes and eventually it spikes down from my usual 100 + fps down to 80. This combined with a 144hz monitor ensures I have a horrible experience. 

what encoding are you using software or NVEC?

[Deactrals]

5 minutes ago, mr fobs said:

what encoding are you using software or NVEC?

I am sorry and probably should've mentioned this earlier, but I am not actually using OBS to encode at all. The reason I am using this "Full screen projector" is to project my main monitor onto the virtual capture card. This means that I am not at all encoding, which makes this dillema further confusing since why would there be a performance impact on my game if I'm not encoding anything. This makes me believe that my games simply don't like being cloned, and I can use windows as a cloning source since it downscales my refresh rate