Has anyone actually tested to see if cloning your screen for a capture card causes anything like input lag or worse?

Capture card is the most input lag free way to stream. Can't speak too much on it as I haven't done it myself, but personally know streamers who do.

I know 100% that "Extending" your screen to two monitors adds input lag. I never play any FPS games in dual monitor extended.

5 hours ago, REYOU said:

I know 100% that "Extending" your screen to two monitors adds input lag. I never play any FPS games in dual monitor extended.

Wasn't aware not extending your screen is an option? How are you playing at high refresh rates while recording/streaming with a dual pc setup, without extending/cloning/duplicating?

Even my 4k60 pro says it natively supports 240hz 1080p but I still remember having to do some trickery just to actually be able to play at 240hz on my gaming pc without it limiting my refresh rate.

Dam u trying to find dumbest way in the world to improve u sohuld train your aim via aimtrainers etc not like this even 240hz will not improve you in 1 second 

Edited April 21, 20206 yr by Merinda18

1 hour ago, Merinda18 said:

Dam u trying to find dumbest way in the world to improve u sohuld train your aim via aimtrainers etc not like this even 240hz will not improve you in 1 second 

What does me being curious about possible risks from cloning/extending a screen for a capture card have to do with literally any aspect of what you just wrote?

My bad though I didn't realize preventing my capture card from restricting my main monitor refresh rate to 60Hz was the "dumbest way in the world to improve". LMAO !?!?!

There is "Extend" and "Duplicate". Duplicate is what you use when you want your secondary display to show exactly what your main display is showing 1 for 1. Using the Duplicate display feature is what you should use when using a capture card. Extending your display creates a main display over multiple monitors. This can allow you to play a game on the main screen and watch a YouTube video in Google Chrome on the second display.

When you have two monitors the main screen can be whatever refresh rate you want, however the second monitor or display output (capture card even) can only output 60hz. Not sure if this can be fixed or not.

Ideally you want to Duplicate your Main Display with the Windows + P keyboard shortcut and ensure your outputs and main display/capture card are set correctly either in windows display settings or nvidia/amd settings. You may have to go as far as the BIOS settings in your motherboard if it doesn't work correctly.

Edited April 23, 20206 yr by REYOU

You are not limited to refresh rate on second screen FYI. Sometimes you have to go through windows settings in order to get to the second screens display properties and change it there. Current gen NVIDIA GPUs are able to handle multiple screens with less lag too. Sorry for the misinformation.