A streaming setup on two or three monitors that lays itself out

The game on the main monitor; OBS, chat and alerts on the side one; music and voice chat wherever they fit. Set it up once, and every stream starts that way.

A layout that works

Main monitor: the game, and nothing else - it is what gets captured.
Side monitor: your streaming software in the large spot, stream chat and the alerts dashboard in the two small ones.
Third monitor, if you have one: voice chat, music, notes.

Arranging that by hand before every stream gets old fast - and the game changing the resolution shuffles it all again.

Make it a preset

Start from the streaming preset in Stillward Display. It opens with your browser already in place for chat and alerts, and the large spot left for your streaming software.
Name the program you stream with, add the pages for your chat and alerts, and give the preset a key.
Make it quiet: while it runs, none of Stillward Display's own notices or sounds appear, so nothing of ours ever pops up on stream.

Press the key, and everything opens where it belongs. Stop, and it goes back.

Check before you go live

One page answers the questions you would otherwise find out on air: could a Windows notification pop up right now, where is your sound going, and which windows are on each monitor. Windows already silences notifications while a game holds a whole screen; the page tells you whether that applies to you, rather than changing your notification settings behind your back.

Good to know

Your scenes and sources stay in your streaming app, exactly as you set them up; Stillward Display looks after the windows around them. It never touches the game's graphics, so nothing of it ever shows up in your stream.

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