Question / Help Black Screen in The Witcher 2

KissMyAxe

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So I've been wanting to stream this game on occasion, and when I go to make sure things will work, OBS just picks up a black screen. I can see the audio bounce of the game, but no screen. Game Capture doesn't work, Window capture sometimes will pull up the game to capture in the drop down menu, sometimes it doesn't even pull that up. I did manage to get it working in monitor capture by turning off full screen, but it drops me from around 40-50 fps to 20-30. Just was wondering if there was a better way to stream the game without that much of a performance hit.

Also, while looking in the log files, I came across this;
21:35:23: Trying to hook process: witcher2.exe
21:39:54: Capture window 0x000C05F0 invalid or changing, terminating capture

Does this mean anything in particular that I might be able to change to get game or window capture to work?

Here's the last log. I tried checking the anti-cheat mode in the game capture window, but that didn't change anything.

<script src="https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9a5ed483a382d9ba77ba.js"></script>

(in case the imbed option doesn't work, here's a link)
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9a5ed483a382d9ba77ba
 

Lain

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Lain
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Check to see if you have a potentially conflicting hook program on your computer, they might sometimes be active even when they're not running (due to installing separate services that actively insert data into running applications).

Conflicting hook programs are: other capture programs, graphics mods for games, programs that draw custom in-game overlays (teamspeak and mumble overlays are good examples of this. Steam and UPlay do *not* count.), graphics utilities such as MSI afterburner and EVGA utilities, among others I may have forgotten about.

Though I'm not entirely sure if that's the problem. Also, it said you were using the anti-cheat option, which is strange because witcher 2 is a single player game.
 

KissMyAxe

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I do have a software called D3DGear running (basically same thing as FRAPS), as well as MSI Afterburner. I did try shutting them down, but I didn't go through to see if they had background services running. I also have some things tweaked in the Nvidia Control Panels's global 3d settings. with a 780 ti, I figured it shouldn't have a problem maxing out any game, so I set things like Anti-Aliasing and Ambient Occlusion to the max settings.
As far as the anti-cheat mode, I turned it on on that final attempt to see if it would make any kind of difference. (which it didn't, probably not a big surprise)

I'll dig around tomorrow and see if I can find any background services related to Afterburner and d3dgear and turn them off. I do have the overlay in steam turned off if that might be of any use.
 
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