Question / Help Black Screen Volgarr the Viking

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OrigiNull

New Member
I am pretty new to the software but was able to successfully stream Dark Souls over my Twitch channel without much difficulty. However, I am stumped in my attempts to stream Volgarr the Viking. Everytime I get audio but the screen on the stream preview is solid black... I have tried adjusting resolutions of both the capture, the game and the monitor itself. The reason I thought that might be the issue is because my main monitor that I am playing off of is a 2560x1440 resolution but the game will only run at 1920x1080. Again Dark Souls worked like a charm but not sure what is happening with Volgarr.... any tips would be very helpful!!!
 
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OrigiNull

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Here is a log file I just ran:

Code: 
17:13:11: Open Broadcaster Software v0.571b - 64bit (　^ω^)
17:13:11: -------------------------------
17:13:11: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
17:13:11: CPU Speed: 3411MHz
17:13:11: Physical Memory:  8159MB Total, 5405MB Free
17:13:11: stepping id: 7, model 10, family 6, type 0, extmodel 1, extfamily 0, HTT 1, logical cores 8, total cores 4
17:13:11: monitor 1: pos={0, 0}, size={2560, 1440}
17:13:11: monitor 2: pos={-1920, 0}, size={1920, 1200}
17:13:11: Windows Version: 6.1 Build 7601 S
17:13:11: Aero is Enabled
17:13:11: -------------------------------
17:13:11: OBS Modules:
17:13:11: Base Address     Module
17:13:11: 000000003F600000 OBS.exe
17:13:11: 00000000EB000000 OBSApi.dll
17:13:11: 00000000EB3B0000 DShowPlugin.dll
17:13:11: 00000000EB380000 GraphicsCapture.dll
17:13:11: 00000000FA2A0000 NoiseGate.dll
17:13:11: 00000000EB360000 PSVPlugin.dll
17:13:11: ------------------------------------------
17:13:11: Adapter 1
17:13:11:   Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
17:13:11:   Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 4224385024
17:13:11:   Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 4009299968
17:13:11: =====Stream Start: 2013-10-08, 17:13:11===============================================
17:13:11:   Multithreaded optimizations: On
17:13:11:   Base resolution: 2560x1440
17:13:11:   Output resolution: 1280x720
17:13:11: ------------------------------------------
17:13:11: Loading up D3D10 on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680...
17:13:11: ------------------------------------------
17:13:11: Audio Format: 48000hz
17:13:11: Playback device {0.0.0.00000000}.{6207336d-b130-419d-974f-94138cb752eb}
17:13:11: ------------------------------------------
17:13:11: Using desktop audio input: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
17:13:11: Using 5.1 speaker setup
17:13:11: ------------------------------------------
17:13:11: Audio Encoding: AAC
17:13:11:     bitrate: 128
17:13:11: Using graphics capture
17:13:11: ------------------------------------------
17:13:11: Video Encoding: x264
17:13:11:     fps: 30
17:13:11:     width: 1280, height: 720
17:13:11:     preset: veryfast
17:13:11:     profile: high
17:13:11:     keyint: 60
17:13:11:     CBR: yes
17:13:11:     CFR: yes
17:13:11:     max bitrate: 850
17:13:11:     buffer size: 510
17:13:11: ------------------------------------------
17:13:11: MMDeviceAudioSource: Frequency for device 'Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)' is 1152000, samples per sec is 48000
17:13:46: Total frames encoded: 1040, total frames duplicated: 70 (6.73%)
17:13:46: Total frames rendered: 990, number of late frames: 8 (0.81%) (it's okay for some frames to be late)
17:13:46: 
17:13:46: Profiler time results:
17:13:46: 
17:13:46: ==============================================================
17:13:46: video thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 3.021 ms] [children: 0.0331%] [unaccounted: 100%]
17:13:46: | scene->Preprocess - [0.0331%] [avg time: 0.001 ms]
17:13:46: GPU download and conversion - [100%] [avg time: 0.129 ms] [children: 89.1%] [unaccounted: 10.9%]
17:13:46: | flush - [64.3%] [avg time: 0.083 ms]
17:13:46: | CopyResource - [19.4%] [avg time: 0.025 ms]
17:13:46: | conversion to 4:2:0 - [5.43%] [avg time: 0.007 ms]
17:13:46: Convert444Threads - [100%] [avg time: 0.489 ms] [children: 99.2%] [unaccounted: 0.818%]
17:13:46: | Convert444toNV12 - [99.2%] [avg time: 0.485 ms]
17:13:46: encoder thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 1.181 ms]
17:13:46: ==============================================================
17:13:46: 
17:13:46: 
17:13:46: Profiler CPU results:
17:13:46: 
17:13:46: ==============================================================
17:13:46: video thread frame - [cpu time: avg 0.378 ms, total 374.402 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:46: | scene->Preprocess - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:46: GPU download and conversion - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:46: | flush - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:46: | CopyResource - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:46: | conversion to 4:2:0 - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:46: Convert444Threads - [cpu time: avg 0.266 ms, total 514.802 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
17:13:46: | Convert444toNV12 - [cpu time: avg 0.266 ms, total 514.802 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
17:13:46: encoder thread frame - [cpu time: avg 0.765 ms, total 780.005 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:46: ==============================================================
17:13:46: 
17:13:46: =====Stream End: 2013-10-08, 17:13:46=================================================
17:13:46: =====Stream Start: 2013-10-08, 17:13:46===============================================
17:13:46:   Multithreaded optimizations: On
17:13:46:   Base resolution: 2560x1440
17:13:46:   Output resolution: 1280x720
17:13:46: ------------------------------------------
17:13:46: Loading up D3D10 on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680...
17:13:46: ------------------------------------------
17:13:46: Audio Format: 48000hz
17:13:46: Playback device {0.0.0.00000000}.{6207336d-b130-419d-974f-94138cb752eb}
17:13:46: ------------------------------------------
17:13:46: Using desktop audio input: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
17:13:46: Using 5.1 speaker setup
17:13:46: ------------------------------------------
17:13:46: Audio Encoding: AAC
17:13:46:     bitrate: 128
17:13:46: Using graphics capture
17:13:46: ------------------------------------------
17:13:46: Video Encoding: x264
17:13:46:     fps: 30
17:13:46:     width: 1280, height: 720
17:13:46:     preset: veryfast
17:13:46:     profile: high
17:13:46:     keyint: 60
17:13:46:     CBR: yes
17:13:46:     CFR: yes
17:13:46:     max bitrate: 850
17:13:46:     buffer size: 510
17:13:46: ------------------------------------------
17:13:46: MMDeviceAudioSource: Frequency for device 'Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)' is 1152000, samples per sec is 48000
17:13:51: Total frames encoded: 106, total frames duplicated: 0 (0.00%)
17:13:51: Total frames rendered: 111, number of late frames: 1 (0.90%) (it's okay for some frames to be late)
17:13:51: 
17:13:51: Profiler time results:
17:13:51: 
17:13:51: ==============================================================
17:13:51: video thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 0.94 ms] [children: 0.106%] [unaccounted: 99.9%]
17:13:51: | scene->Preprocess - [0.106%] [avg time: 0.001 ms]
17:13:51: GPU download and conversion - [100%] [avg time: 0.137 ms] [children: 98.5%] [unaccounted: 1.46%]
17:13:51: | flush - [78.8%] [avg time: 0.108 ms]
17:13:51: | CopyResource - [17.5%] [avg time: 0.024 ms]
17:13:51: | conversion to 4:2:0 - [2.19%] [avg time: 0.003 ms]
17:13:51: Convert444Threads - [100%] [avg time: 0.573 ms] [children: 99.1%] [unaccounted: 0.873%]
17:13:51: | Convert444toNV12 - [99.1%] [avg time: 0.568 ms]
17:13:51: encoder thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 1.421 ms]
17:13:51: ==============================================================
17:13:51: 
17:13:51: 
17:13:51: Profiler CPU results:
17:13:51: 
17:13:51: ==============================================================
17:13:51: video thread frame - [cpu time: avg 0.843 ms, total 93.6 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:51: | scene->Preprocess - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:51: GPU download and conversion - [cpu time: avg 0.14 ms, total 15.6 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:51: | flush - [cpu time: avg 0.14 ms, total 15.6 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:51: | CopyResource - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:51: | conversion to 4:2:0 - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:51: Convert444Threads - [cpu time: avg 0.453 ms, total 78 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
17:13:51: | Convert444toNV12 - [cpu time: avg 0.453 ms, total 78 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
17:13:51: encoder thread frame - [cpu time: avg 1.284 ms, total 109.2 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
17:13:51: ==============================================================
17:13:51: 
17:13:51: =====Stream End: 2013-10-08, 17:13:51=================================================

Last game capture log:
2013-10-08, 17:13:11: we're booting up:
 
Krazy

Krazy

Town drunk
Try setting up the Game Capture hotkey function in the Game Capture source properties. It can be a lot more reliable about grabbing games. After you've set the hotkey, start streaming, then tab into your game and press the hotkey.

This game should work fine with Game Capture as it's a DX9 game (apparently)
 
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OrigiNull

New Member
I tried the shortcut key with no success. It appears to be picking up the audio of the game as I can see that responding on the OBS correctly just no video. I also tried running it in window modes but no luck there either.


Also since I am new to this I tested a couple other games both of which worked: Diablo 3 and Spelunky
 
FerretBomb

FerretBomb

Active Member
Never use desktop capture except as an absolute last-resort. It's slow as hell even with Aero off, and can cause MAJOR lag in the game itself. Volgarr will work fine in windowed mode, with a window capture.
 
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