Dual PC Dynamic Lighting

[weak hearth]

I run a dual PC setup with obs and my vtuber streaming software on my stream PC and the game on the game PC. I use a cpature card (AVerMedia Live Gamer MINI--it's what I had lying around) and to stream it, I open obs on the game PC and project the game to the capture card. On the stream PC I use a video capture source to put it on my stream.

I'm trying to set up dynamic lighting to pick up the lighting from my game PC, but I don't have an option to select the capture card in the display lighting. I thought maybe I could work around it by picking up obs itself with the game running, but it captures the ENTIRETY of obs which makes everything a little too dark. I've played with the brightness and overlay sliders and it works, but the light is little muddled looking.

Is there a workaround, plugin or something I'm missing to make this work? Or is this the best I can do with my current setup or equipment?

[blissful shuttle]

From what I can see, it looks like you're only running the game on the game PC. There's no way to natively bring screen colours from one PC to VTS on another PC.

What I suggest you do instead is have VTS run on your game PC, stream your game to the stream PC as usual, and use NDI to send VTS video output to your stream PC

[weak hearth]

I'm using a capture card so I don't have any extra strain on my game pc (GPU priortization and whatnot). I've had issue with some games just running Vtuber software and game at the same time. My game pc also has the tendency to crash randomly sometime (I haven't figured out quite what's causing it yet) so I'd rather not lose the game, audio, VTS and T.I.T.S. all at the same time if it crashes and have to reset ALL of that midstream.

My game monitor is an ultrawide and doesn't fit nicely in the standard twitch window. So getting the model window to fit the obs screen for stream is awkward and stretched at best when using the game pc.

Admittedly, I haven't looked too much into NDI, but would there be a benefit to using it and the game PC that would outweigh the drawbacks that I'm currently experiencing?

[blissful shuttle]

I mean I guess one thing you can do is have a capture preview open on your stream PC side, and then capture that in VTS to have your ambient lighting