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[bulldoggamer]

So when i try to use the game capture feature on my laptop I just get a black screen. I have tried everything i can find on how to fix the issue, from setting my NVidia Geforce graphics card as the default in the Nvidia task manager, to updating my driver and turning off my antivirus software. I am currently trying to record pokemon red on the visual boy advance emulator but i have also tried portal and dota 2 and none of them work. So at this point im hoping you can diagnose something from my log file because i'm all out of ideas.

https://gist.github.com/507f50b0135cb3fdd1ce

Thanks in advance!

 

[Lain]

Give me a log from dota 2.

 

[bulldoggamer]

Here is the log for dota 2. It worked this time so i don't know what i did different. But what i want to record is the vba and that still is not working. Any suggestions for that?

https://gist.github.com/477459ac2e9adeabae80

 

[dodgepong]

I don't believe you can use game capture on VBA. You have to use Window capture, and that should work fine.

 

[bulldoggamer]

Ok. I've seen vba capture be done before but i will try the window capture quick and let you know if it works

 

[bulldoggamer]

Ok i tried window capture and i got a black screen except that my mouse would show up when i put it over the window

 

[dodgepong]

Does it work if you enable Capture Layered Windows or Compatibility mode?

 

[bulldoggamer]

No. I can tell where my window is on the preview because whenever my mouse strays outside it itll leave a trail of the mouse that stay on the screen permanently. But i cant get it to show up what so ever. Both OBS and VBA are set to use my NVIDIA graphics card. But one strange thing that happens is that OBS sometimes doesn't recognise by intel graphics card as being an option. Instead it shows two copies of my NVIDIA and a microsoft basic rendering driver.

 

[dodgepong]

How about with Monitor capture and screen region?

 

[bulldoggamer]

That works great for the video! When i plug in my microphone will i be able to hear any of the game sound on the recording?

Btw Thank you so much you were so helpful!

 

[hilalpro]

OBS is designed to take both audio feeds simultaneously so yes you should still be able to hear your desktop/game sound if you decide to plug in a microphone.

 

[Cecil666]

Im encountering the same problem recording a visual boy advance screen, i get the audio and a still frame of the games menu

 

[Lain]

If possible post a log from it.

 

[Cecil666]

https://gist.github.com/7cedbe82aa0984919ada

 

[Lain]

Cecil - The reason you get a still frame is because your CPU is too weak to encode an HD stream, and the encoder is stalling the frames. You only have two cores, so use more downscale (2.0 or more), as well as potentially setting the 'x264 CPU preset' in advanced to 'ultrafast'.

 

[Cecil666]

It's recording the video and audio great now! Only problem is its only getting the top right corner

 

[dodgepong]

Select the source and press Ctrl + F and see if that helps.