black screen

Have a full screen application that I am trying to view as an OBS source. I have tried Window, Screen, and Display Capture. When I tried display capture it shows nothing. When I try window is shows some options but not the application I am trying to broadcast, and nothing in display...

Recently, I tried to record some Minecraft gameplay, only to see that OBS wasn't capturing the game whatsoever. I tried reinstalling OBS, removing and adding the game back as a source, and even tried looking up common reasons why it might happen. All to no prevail. Nvidia Shadowplay is able to...

My capture device just shows a black screen, but when I switch back to another device (camera or device not plugged in) then switch back it starts working. It's almost like it's not initializing correctly or something. Is there a setting somewhere I can force some kind of hard initialization...

I installed obs and got a black screen error and couldn't find a solution for this

Hi all, Having a real hard time finding a fix to this. Fortnite will only give me a black screen when trying to game capture it. Seems to have something to do with attempting to hook process: FortniteClient-Win64-Shipping.exe. Here is the log. https://obsproject.com/logs/l0Blb7J1hHK2yync

Hi all, After hours of reading the forums i still cant figure out the infamous black screen problem. Here is my log file. Any help would be much appreciated!! https://obsproject.com/logs/TUwxIkxXKIMAY-SR

Hi y'all, I'm a first time OBS user. I want to use it to record short clips for my PhD dissertation from Youtube, Netflix and others. I just spent the last two hours and a half trying to make it work, reading a million posts, and I'm close to giving up on the program, so any help is welcome...

Hi, so i know these questions have been asked 1000 times and Ive been reading through them to try to figure out my issue but now im running into a problem i cant quite pinpoint. and have a few other questions. Just to get a few things out of the way, I have already Run it as Administrator, I...

Hello, I am new to using OBS which is why I'm here ;D. Anyways I have 2 problems being that my recordings are an "flv" file and I was wondering if I could change them into instead becoming mp4 or something similar. The other thing being that in OBS I'm trying to record some Overwatch and I chose...

I have been fighting this for months and have finally figured out a workaround so I thought I would share since I haven't been able to find a solution online that suggested this. Hopefully this saves someone some headache (maybe add this to the blank display capture sticky?) TLDR: With an...

Hi everyone, I was wondering why my computer was lagging when I was trying to record 1080p League Of Legends Content. My rig should be able to do it with a breeze but I don't know why it can't. Here are my specs: Dell G7 Laptop: I7-8750H 8 Cores 4.1ghz GTX 1060 6gb MAX-Q 8gb RAM 128GB SSD 1tb...

Evening! I am trying to record a terminal through obs, running obs the first time though. I downloaded and installed it with the distros build in app manager. I Also used the automated, build in setup assistent. When I record my screen its working fine. If i try to record a terminal - I...

Hello, I'm trying to capture the screen of the WhatsApp desktop app for Windows using OBS, but I just get the dreaded black screen. My system is an ASUS laptop with dual GPU (this must be the bain of your life at the moment) I've searched extensively online and on this forum and followed...

Hi all, I've done a lot of searching on how to fix my OBS black screen issue. When I try to capture a game window, it is rendered black, and earlier today it did the same to my webcam, but that got fixed by removing and re-adding the source. I *think* my problem is that I need to set my GPU to...

Hi, I just installed OBS Studio and it seems like a great idea. I tried to do a basic screen recording today but when I opened the video file it was plain black. I tried another one with just the OBS Studio window showing but again the video was plain black. How do I make OBS Studio actually...

I tried a lot of things to fix this issue and still can't figure it out. I am kinda new to OBS and would appreciate some help. Logs are listed below: https://obsproject.com/logs/lt3TIEFg3kVux5KF

I am trying to stream from my game console to Twitch. Everything is hooked up properly, and OBS recognizes my capture card (Avermedia LGP Lite GL310). I have the drivers and the stream engine installed. The blue light on my capture card is solid. However, in OBS, I am getting a black screen even...

Hi, I just downloaded OBS and I am unable to display capture, can you please help! I am able to window capture, which is strange. this is my current log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/VDHtzh514NSI2dDQ

Hello people, I am new with OBS and I know, that this question has been asked very often. But I tried to fix my OBS using the other solutions but it won't work. So my problem is, that I can't record my screen and also my games. I only see a black screen in my OBS window. I run my OBS on an...

It just happens randomly(minimum 30 minutes to maxium 3~4 hours). When computer crashes, fan starts to ramp up and I have to force restart (screen turns off, monitor goes to power saving mode). It was fine when I was using NVENC, but as soon as I started using x264 this happened. Link to log...