Earlier when I was game capture Skyrim all I would get black screen I played around with stuff and got it working but now my friend is having the exact same problem with the same game and I don't know what I did to to fix it. He is running on an Alienware mx 17. OBS is set to use the Nvdia card and only monitor capture is working regardless of what game we try to run, game capture will not work at all.
Question / Help Black Screen game capture.
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Sapiens
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You might be shocked to learn that we don't know what you did to fix it either. If your friend needs help he should come here and post for himself, and include a log file - viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7144
Also remember that full screen games usually stop rendering when you Alt+Tab out of them, so if that's how you're checking then that could be the issue. Try watching the stream from a different computer, or just do a local recording instead and watch it after you're done to see if everything worked.
Also remember that full screen games usually stop rendering when you Alt+Tab out of them, so if that's how you're checking then that could be the issue. Try watching the stream from a different computer, or just do a local recording instead and watch it after you're done to see if everything worked.
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21:12:00: Open Broadcaster Software v0.584b - 32bit (´・ω・｀)
21:12:00: -------------------------------
21:12:00: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz
21:12:00: CPU Speed: 2294MHz
21:12:00: Physical Memory: 4095MB Total, 4095MB Free
21:12:00: stepping id: 9, model 58, family 6, type 0, extmodel 1, extfamily 0, HTT 1, logical cores 8, total cores 4
21:12:00: monitor 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1600, 900}
21:12:00: monitor 2: pos={1600, 0}, size={1600, 900}
21:12:00: Windows Version: 6.1 Build 7601 S
21:12:00: Aero is Enabled
21:12:00: -------------------------------
21:12:00: OBS Modules:
21:12:00: Base Address Module
21:12:00: 00AB0000 OBS.exe
21:12:00: 638D0000 OBSApi.dll
21:12:00: 6C990000 DShowPlugin.dll
21:12:00: 6C970000 GraphicsCapture.dll
21:12:00: 6C950000 NoiseGate.dll
21:12:00: 67B40000 PSVPlugin.dll
21:12:00: ------------------------------------------
21:12:00: Adapter 1
21:12:00: Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M
21:12:00: Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 2091712512
21:12:00: Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 2147676160
21:12:00: Video Adapter Output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1600, 900}, attached=true
21:12:00: Video Adapter Output 2: pos={1600, 0}, size={1600, 900}, attached=true
21:12:00: ------------------------------------------
21:12:00: Adapter 2
21:12:00: Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M
21:12:00: Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 2091712512
21:12:00: Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 2147676160
21:12:00: =====Stream Start: 2013-11-29, 21:12:00===============================================
21:12:00: Multithreaded optimizations: On
21:12:00: Base resolution: 1600x900
21:12:00: Output resolution: 1600x900
21:12:00: ------------------------------------------
21:12:00: Loading up D3D10 on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M...
21:12:01: ------------------------------------------
21:12:01: Audio Format: 48000hz
21:12:01: Playback device {0.0.0.00000000}.{fc6349de-add0-4ac6-b5c8-4d576ac2128f}
21:12:01: ------------------------------------------
21:12:01: Using desktop audio input: Speakers (Sound Blaster Recon3Di)
21:12:01: ------------------------------------------
21:12:01: Audio Encoding: AAC
21:12:01: bitrate: 128
21:12:01: Using graphics capture
21:12:01: Scene buffering time set to 400
21:12:01: ------------------------------------------
21:12:01: Video Encoding: x264
21:12:01: fps: 30
21:12:01: width: 1600, height: 900
21:12:01: preset: veryfast
21:12:01: profile: high
21:12:01: keyint: 60
21:12:01: CBR: yes
21:12:01: CFR: no
21:12:01: max bitrate: 1000
21:12:01: buffer size: 1000
21:12:01: ------------------------------------------
21:12:01: MMDeviceAudioSource: Frequency for device 'Speakers (Sound Blaster Recon3Di)' is 384000, samples per sec is 48000
21:12:15: Total frames encoded: 415, total frames duplicated: 1 (0.24%)
21:12:15: Total frames rendered: 419, number of late frames: 0 (0.00%) (it's okay for some frames to be late)
21:12:15:
21:12:15: Profiler time results:
21:12:15:
21:12:15: ==============================================================
21:12:15: video thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 0.982 ms] [children: 7.23%] [unaccounted: 92.8%]
21:12:15: | scene->Preprocess - [0.204%] [avg time: 0.002 ms]
21:12:15: | GPU download and conversion - [7.03%] [avg time: 0.069 ms] [children: 6.21%] [unaccounted: 0.815%]
21:12:15: | | flush - [3.56%] [avg time: 0.035 ms]
21:12:15: | | CopyResource - [2.44%] [avg time: 0.024 ms]
21:12:15: | | conversion to 4:2:0 - [0.204%] [avg time: 0.002 ms]
21:12:15: Convert444Threads - [100%] [avg time: 0.744 ms] [children: 99.2%] [unaccounted: 0.806%]
21:12:15: | Convert444toNV12 - [99.2%] [avg time: 0.738 ms]
21:12:15: encoder thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 1.548 ms]
21:12:15: ==============================================================
21:12:15:
21:12:15:
21:12:15: Profiler CPU results:
21:12:15:
21:12:15: ==============================================================
21:12:15: video thread frame - [cpu time: avg 0.521 ms, total 218.401 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:12:15: | scene->Preprocess - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:12:15: | GPU download and conversion - [cpu time: avg 0.111 ms, total 46.801 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:12:15: | | flush - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:12:15: | | CopyResource - [cpu time: avg 0.077 ms, total 31.201 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:12:15: | | conversion to 4:2:0 - [cpu time: avg 0.038 ms, total 15.6 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:12:15: Convert444Threads - [cpu time: avg 0.656 ms, total 530.402 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
21:12:15: | Convert444toNV12 - [cpu time: avg 0.656 ms, total 530.402 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
21:12:15: encoder thread frame - [cpu time: avg 1.2 ms, total 483.603 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:12:15: ==============================================================
21:12:15:
21:12:15: =====Stream End: 2013-11-29, 21:12:15=================================================Sapiens
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If you have no mods or any overlays active on skyrim (*edit), then the black screen on a laptop is almost always due to the laptop adapter being wrong in OBS.
Again, make sure the *top* adapter (whatever it may be, intel or nvidia) is selected in OBS' video settings, in the "VIdeo adapter" drop down. Then, in nvidia control panel, make sure the EXE path for OBS is set to use the nvidia (performance) adapter. There are two exe's for OBS, 32bit and 64bit, so make sure to do it for whichever one you're using (or both)
Again, make sure the *top* adapter (whatever it may be, intel or nvidia) is selected in OBS' video settings, in the "VIdeo adapter" drop down. Then, in nvidia control panel, make sure the EXE path for OBS is set to use the nvidia (performance) adapter. There are two exe's for OBS, 32bit and 64bit, so make sure to do it for whichever one you're using (or both)
