Set up MewCapture

MewCapture records or streams your game with your overlay on it, no capture card needed. Your main PC only sends the game and the sound you pick. Your second PC does everything else: the overlay, scenes, webcam, recording, streaming and clips. MewCapture has the download and the full list of what it does.

Warning. Never run your overlay on the main PC. Anti-cheats take screenshots of the main PC and scan them, also with AI, for things like ESP. MewCapture keeps the overlay on the second PC, and shows a red warning if the second PC's picture ever comes back to the main PC.

What you need

Your main PC and your second PC, both on Windows
Both PCs on the same router, or one Ethernet cable straight between them. Direct cable between two PCs shows how
MewCapture from the latest release, on both PCs

1. Install MewCapture on both PCs

Download MewCapture-Setup from the latest release and run it on both PCs
If Windows warns you, press More info, then Run anyway. The app isn't code signed yet. You can check the file against SHA256SUMS.txt on the release page
Open MewCapture and say yes to admin rights. It needs them to open the firewall for the other PC
Pick which PC this is, Main PC or Second PC. It remembers, and the button at the top of Updates and About switches it later

Note. Screenshot coming here: the first screen, where you pick Main PC or Second PC.

2. Start receiving on the second PC

On the second PC, press Start receiving. It waits for the main PC
Press Pick your overlay window and pick your software's overlay. MewCapture finds its background and removes it
If parts of the overlay go missing or a dark border shows, move the How much gets removed slider under the preview

Note. Screenshot coming here: Pick your overlay window, with the preview and the slider.

3. Pair the two PCs

On the main PC, find your second PC
Check both PCs show the same 4-digit code
Press Connect on the second PC. From now on they reconnect by themselves

Note. Screenshot coming here: both PCs showing the same 4-digit code.

4. Send the game from the main PC

Pick Screen, or your game window. A game window needs the game in borderless or windowed mode
Tick the apps whose sound you want sent, like the game and Discord. Your main PC's mic can be sent too, on its own track
Press Start sending

The main PC screen shows how much MewCapture uses. There's no preview on it, to keep it light. You can close the window and it keeps running in the tray, or press Small window.

Note. Screenshot coming here: the main PC screen with Start sending.

5. Build your scene on the second PC

In Scenes, add what you want with the game: a webcam (with background blur if you like), images, text, a countdown, browser sources, or a keys and mouse display
Items snap to guides, the arrow keys nudge them, Ctrl+Z undoes, and right-click has more

Note. Screenshot coming here: Scenes, with the game, the overlay and a webcam.

6. Set the sound

In Audio, set each level with its meter and mute what you don't want
Turn on your mic, or push to talk
Game, mic and Discord go on their own tracks in your recordings

Note. Screenshot coming here: Audio, with the meters.

7. Record or go live

In Output, pick a preset: YouTube, Twitch, Low impact or Clips only
Press Record or Go live. You can stream to Twitch, YouTube and Kick at once, with chat in the app

Note. Screenshot coming here: Output, with the presets, Record and Go live.

Clip That

Press the clip hotkey on either PC and MewCapture saves the last 30 seconds to 2 minutes, with the overlay or clean. Trim it, and send a clean clip to your main PC in one click. You set a hotkey by clicking its box and pressing the keys.

Using OBS instead

OBS is optional. MewCapture records and streams by itself. If you like OBS, run it on the second PC:

Easiest: in Output, press Set up OBS for me, then in OBS pick Scene Collection and MewCapture. The projector and its sound are already in it
By hand: turn on Using OBS? in Output, open the projector window, and add a Window Capture of MewCapture Projector in OBS
For the sound, pick For OBS under Game Sound in Audio, then add an Application Audio Capture of the projector window

Warning. Never put the projector, or an OBS scene with the second PC's picture in it, on the main PC. That puts your overlay back on the main PC's screen. MewCapture shows a red warning if it happens. OBS on the main PC on its own is fine.

If something's wrong

The PCs can't find each other.
Press Start receiving on the second PC first, and check both are on the same router. Turn off guest networks, AP or client isolation and VPNs. Network on the second PC shows what's blocking it, sometimes with a Fix it button. A direct cable always works.
The game is black.
Pick Screen instead of the game window.
It stutters or looks blocky.
Use a cable, or pick Smooth as the quality on the main PC. MewCapture also lowers the quality by itself when packets drop.
Still stuck.
Press Something's wrong. It checks both PCs and the connection and tells you what to fix. Then use Report a bug or idea in the app, or open a ticket in our Discord and paste the summary.