Question / Help Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game) [solved]

[Xphome]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

N.B. You don't need Game Capture if you're on Windows 8. Monitor capture will work without any performance drop compared to Game Capture.

Even in a full screen game? Will I still get the black bars based on what Xphome said?

Monitor capture doesn't work when games are in fullscreen mode, you will get those black bars until you choose to stream/record at a 16:9 resolution but then you would have to play at it too or else it would get stretched and look horrible. I would just stick with the black bars.

 

[Cavar]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

I would just stick with the black bars.

That's what I'll probably have to do. Or maybe I'll upgrade to those two 27" 16:9 1920x1080 monitors I've been eyeing. :)

 

[Xphome]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

I would just stick with the black bars.

That's what I'll probably have to do. Or maybe I'll upgrade to those two 27" 16:9 1920x1080 monitors I've been eyeing. :)

Going from 2560x1600 to 1920x1080 is a downgrade tho.

 

[Cavar]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

I would just stick with the black bars.

That's what I'll probably have to do. Or maybe I'll upgrade to those two 27" 16:9 1920x1080 monitors I've been eyeing. :)

Going from 2560x1600 to 1920x1080 is a downgrade tho.

It is, but I do so much development work on two monitors at work, that having two at home would be nice. I dunno. I really don't want to spend money on monitors just to record/stream occasionally, so I doubt I'll ever go through with buying new monitors. I am an impulse buyer tho, so who knows. haha

 

[Xphome]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

You could just buy one extra and keep the one you have. I currently have 3 monitors, 2x 1920x1080 1x 1280x1024.

 

[dodgepong]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

I was specifying no black bars in the preview and local recordings...yes, there will be black bars on players that you upload videos to because you are playing them in a 16:10 resolution and they are 16:9 players.

 

[Cavar]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

I was specifying no black bars in the preview and local recordings...yes, there will be black bars on players that you upload videos to because you are playing them in a 16:10 resolution and they are 16:9 players.

Ah. Well, I get black bars in the preview, local and on uploads. When playing locally, I use either VLC or WMP.

It's not a huge deal tbh, but I see so many people streaming and uploading and they don't have black bars. I guess they are all running in 16:9.

 

[Xphome]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

I was specifying no black bars in the preview and local recordings...yes, there will be black bars on players that you upload videos to because you are playing them in a 16:10 resolution and they are 16:9 players.

Ah. Well, I get black bars in the preview, local and on uploads. When playing locally, I use either VLC or WMP.

It's not a huge deal tbh, but I see so many people streaming and uploading and they don't have black bars. I guess they are all running in 16:9.

You shouldn't get black bars when you fullscreen the video, unless your Base Resolution in OBS is 16:9 which you could change to 16:10 to get rid of those.

 

[Cavar]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

I was specifying no black bars in the preview and local recordings...yes, there will be black bars on players that you upload videos to because you are playing them in a 16:10 resolution and they are 16:9 players.

Ah. Well, I get black bars in the preview, local and on uploads. When playing locally, I use either VLC or WMP.

It's not a huge deal tbh, but I see so many people streaming and uploading and they don't have black bars. I guess they are all running in 16:9.

You shouldn't get black bars when you fullscreen the video, unless your Base Resolution in OBS is 16:9 which you could change to 16:10 to get rid of those.

Well, my desktop, the game and OBS Base resolution all say 2560x1600, which is 16:10, yet I still get the black bars when I play locally and upload.

 

[dodgepong]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

What happens when you select the game source and press CRTL+R?

Can you take another screenshot if the OBS preview window?

 

[Cavar]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

What happens when you select the game source and press CRTL+R?

Can you take another screenshot if the OBS preview window?

Sure, I'll do that when I go home in about 3 hours. I'll record it with Diablo 3 since it shows up in the Preview window and my other game doesn't.

 

[Cavar]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

What happens when you select the game source and press CRTL+R?

Can you take another screenshot if the OBS preview window?

So, I am home now. I setup a new source for Diablo 3 and clicked the Preview stream button. The Preview was just a black screen. I could see the audio bar moving, so I know it was receiving audio from the game.

The video I recorded has the black bars.

I have attached a pre and post CTRL+R preview log file. Not sure if they'll tell you anything or not. Both got the following error when I run it through the log analyzer.

"Bad resolution / FPS / bitrate combination"

I had corrected this error at some point last night, but I've changed so many things since then, who knows why it's back. lol

I've also attached a screenshot of my Encoding and Video options in OBS.

 

[dodgepong]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

I meant a screenshot of the preview window showing the black bars.

 

[Cavar]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

I meant a screenshot of the preview window showing the black bars.

As I mentioned above, the entire preview window is black, so you won't see any black bars, but I have attached it.

 

[dodgepong]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

Can you run the game in Windowed Borderless mode? That will show the game while alt-tabbed.

 

[Cavar]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

Can you run the game in Windowed Borderless mode? That will show the game while alt-tabbed.

I assume that means windowed full screen? If so, here's the attachment.

As you see, the preview does NOT show the black bars, however they are in my recorded video. And they are also on the video I uploaded to YT, but that's to be expected if they are there locally and due to my aspect ratio.

 

[dodgepong]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

Ah HA, that's what I was trying to ask the whole time. So that is correct. The black bars ONLY appear on YouTube or what have you, since those are 16:9 players, and your resolution is 16:10.

 

[Cavar]

Re: Black Screen (Win8+Full Screen Game)

hehe yeah, I think that was mentioned a few pages back. :)

I guess I'll always have the black bars so long as I run in 2560x1600, which is 16:9 ratio.

I appreciate all your help and patience.