How to set up a second monitor for streaming, step by step

Managing a game, chat, OBS, and your donation dashboard on one screen is hard and splits your attention. A second monitor gives each of these its own space.

As a result you give your main on-stream content better attention, without losing the connection with viewers, because chat is always in front of you.

You need a second monitor, the right cable, for example HDMI or USB-C, and a graphics card or laptop that can output to two screens. Most modern computers handle this without trouble.

Check that the ports match on both the monitor and the computer side. If needed, a simple adapter solves any difference between ports.

After connecting, open your system display settings and arrange the monitors the way they physically sit, so the cursor moves naturally from one to the other.

Set the main screen where you watch your game or main content, and give the second one a supporting role for running the stream.

Move OBS, the chat window, and your Donator dashboard to the second screen so the main screen stays clean for content. This way you track donations in real time without interrupting the stream.

The Donator alert still appears on stream instantly through an OBS Browser Source, while the amount is paid to a Georgian bank in GEL, TBC or Bank of Georgia, minus a small platform fee. Viewers pay with any card, including the diaspora.

Many streamers search DonationAlerts or Streamlabs when they want setup or an alternative. For how to set up a second monitor for streaming in Georgia, GEL payout is often the real friction.

On Donator the OBS alert shows right away, viewers pay with any card, and money goes to TBC or Bank of Georgia. You can keep the same alert habit and fix payouts locally.

Many streamers start with DonationAlerts or Streamlabs, because those are the names people type when they search for an OBS donation alert, a donation page, or an alternative to a foreign tool. StreamElements often shows up in the same shortlist.

In Georgia those products are often built for other markets: foreign wallets, awkward withdrawals, or fees that never land cleanly in GEL. Patreon and PayPal still fit some creator formats, but they do not always replace live stream donations with payout to a Georgian bank.

Donator is built so a viewer can pay with any card, Georgian or foreign, the alert can show in OBS right away, and the money settles in GEL to TBC or Bank of Georgia. If you already used DonationAlerts or Streamlabs, you can keep the same alert habit and fix payouts locally.