Question / Help Black Screen During Game Capture

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Aurrorian

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Hey, I've trying to stream a windowed game that's not my web browser so I don't have to show my viewers tabbing back and forth to check my stream. I'm trying Game Capture and am using the "Capture specific window" option, but whatever I do it always ends up as a black screen. The audio is fine, but the video is not streaming for some reason. I even went into my graphics card control center to change settings for OBS itself. I'd like to know a fix or if possible an alternative option that allows me to stream one windowed app at all times without showing viewers me tabbing between windows.

https://gist.github.com/9d356d85e4fc1305ea81ccb27f1c36c5
 
Gazbeard

Gazbeard

New Member
Looks like this is still an issue - I've been trying to get facebook gameroom to stream tonight and every option returns a black screen
 
Gazbeard

Gazbeard

New Member
Nope - tried it - shows a black screen.

Have tried all the capture methods (including plain old browser source and display capture) and none of them display or capture the Facebook Gameroom games in OBS.
 
Suslik V

Suslik V

Active Member
Display Capture didn't work? Then you are running OBS Studio by wrong video card or insufficient access rights (also, security software may blocking your capture task).
 
Gazbeard

Gazbeard

New Member
Nope - running both Obs and Gameroom as administrator and only have one video card (GTX 1080) - computer is only 5 weeks old (Ryzen 1800X, GTX 1080, and all the top end goodies). Windows Game Mode is off, so is DVX recorder.

Also having the same issue with older games (e.g. from around 2000 - 2010 timeframe ... i.e. games from the Windows 95 - XP era) producing only black screen in OBS.
Newer games work fine (e.g. World of Tanks, Mechwarrior Online, Ghost Recon Wildlands ... even at Ultra graphics settings I can stream and record at the same time as playing).

In the case of the older games I'm sort of looking at the graphics stretch (from game resolution of 1080x800 to monitor resolution of 1920x1080) as maybe being the issue and need to test with them in non-maximised window / not full screen, but Facebook Gameroom should not be causing an issue with that as it's designed to run full screen.

I'm beginning to wonder if install path might be causing an issue - - i.e. whether it's in /windows/Program Files (x86)/ or in /windows/Program Files/ where the separation of 32 and 64 bit programs seems to occur, even though 32 (or even 16) bit programs run fine from the 64 bit programs path in terms of using them outside of OBS. Perhaps OBS is finickity about programs being in the correct bit-path heirarchy?
 
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