game capture black screen

Recently, I tried to use the usual scene for capturing a game window, through a "Game Capture" source. That time, it did not work. The preview just showed a black screen and all recording attempts showed one, too. Audio worked. No matter, which window I selected, all were black screens in OBS...

I've been having a black screen issue whenever I choose game capture Sims 4. All other games work except sims 4. I have tried all troubleshooting i have found online. tried to reinstall obs and even tried to install the previous version but nothing worked. What could be the problem? Please help!

Hello, this problem has been occurring for little over a year now, and I have tried about everything. Using "alternated" versions, completely uninstalling OBS, manipulating the settings and whatnot. I have transformed it properly, so it cannot be a positioning problem. The microphone, desktop...

Hi! What I tried doing is: Game Capture Mode: Capture Specific Window Window: [VALORANT-Win64-Shipping.exe]:Valorant Window match priority: Match title, otherwise find window of same executable Checked Limit Capture Framerate (tried without before)/Capture Cursor/Use anti-cheat compatibility...

got this pc last October and had no issues using obs until this past month i started having encoding issues with high frame drops to the point my videos would have about a 20~ second stutter. now i have no video output at all and im not sure why or what to do to fix ive tried multiple fixes from...

My system is windows 11. when i play overwatch with fullscreen and use obs to broadcast it,i use Game Capture to capture the game,i cant see anything in preview,my live room is black screen,i tried various methods to fix this problem but nothing has changed.But when i use Borderless Windowed,i...

My system is windows 11. when i play overwatch with fullscreen and use obs to broadcast it,i use Game Capture to capture the game,i cant see anything in preview,my live room is black screen,i tried various methods to fix this problem but nothing has changed.But when i use Borderless Windowed,i...

Hi, I'm getting a black screen when trying to capture Celeste but no other games. Already checked windows graphics settings, and I know MSI Afterburner isn't causing a conflict (which I've heard is a fairly common issue). Have also tried running OBS as admin, same problems. Does anyone know of...

I just switched over from slobs to obs and it was working fine on the first day, since then my game capture has worked 2 times out of the hundreds of times ive tried. The audio picks up however the screen is always black. I've looked online and tried every fix i could find and none work, on top...

I haven't been able to use display capture since the last OBS update, and even game capture is not working properly for some games that used to work propperly. I already tried changing the graphics settings but its no use since my processor has no integrated graphics. I also tried executing the...

I have been trying to use OBS for game capture with retro consoles, specifically gamecube and ps2. I am able to get audio through OBS just fine, but there's no video, just a blank screen. Has anyone else encountered this issue? I have tried two different capture cards and both had the same...

Hi, I have encountered the following problem: When I make a game capture of certain games the preview shows black screen. Sometimes when I start the game after the game capture is created with the game exe it captures one frame of the game and freezes the preview screen. I am using a...

Hi, so OBS isn't detecting League of Legends when I'm in game. I don't know why, it was working at first but now it doesn't. I tried to launch it as an administrator and to reinstall OBS but it still doesn't work. Please help

I've talked to a few streamers and they mostly use window or screen capture to play it, but there was one girl who actually captured it via game capture. I've tried eveerything: admin, borderless windowed.. etc.. nothing works. Just black screen. No idea why this game refuses to be captured

I just finished streaming a test live in twitch now. It goes like when I opened obs to stream today game capture was giving black screen and when I checked using my phone the stream in viewer's end was also a black footage. I can't understand what's written in log file but maybe by looking it...

I am having a black screen while capturing the GTA V, there is no such problems while playing GTA V in Windowed mode and using window capturing but playing the game in windowed mode is annoying sometimes. Does anyone knows a fix for that? The Anti-Cheat compatibility is enabled.

Hi there, I would like to capture gameplay (stream avatars) with syphon-client. Stream Avatars are still working under Big Sur now, but I can't select it with syphon-client. It also didn't works with syphoninject. I can select stream avatars, but there's always a black window. I allowed syphon...

I usually use OBS for Rainbow Six Siege Vulkan API. But recently, after I installed R6Analyst I can't use game capture and even window capture to capture Rainbow Six Siege gameplay. I instantly uninstall R6Analyst to see if it was the problem. Turns out the problem persisted. My OBS still can't...

I have recently been trying to record two games with OBS, both on my desktop (a Dell 3360 Precision Workstation, which has no GPU) and could get neither to work. I have since been on these forums and many others, and worked out that actually my computer can't do game capture for either of these...

I have searched about this and I think I have done everything on my ability to try to fix it and the thing is, i managed to get it workign by running as an admin. It was working fine, been streaming 3 days a week since February but today, it just stopped working and I didn't change a single...