Question / Help Broadcast is very dark

[LHM]

I am new to OBS and all is well so far, apart from when I watch my broadcast on my ipad and iphone the broadcast is much darker than what it is on my screen I am gaming from. Even viewers have commented how dark my stream looks. What can I do to brighten it up?

 

[sam686]

What game is it? Show us log file that shows us the recording or streaming settings? Maybe show us your video? when twitch archive broadcast is on.

Using any gamma/brightness/contrast adjustments on the monitor or graphics control panel? These may only affect you and your playback but not how it is captured.

 

[LHM]

What game is it? Show us log file that shows us the recording or streaming settings? Maybe show us your video? when twitch archive broadcast is on.

Using any gamma/brightness/contrast adjustments on the monitor or graphics control panel? These may only affect you and your playback but not how it is captured.

Hi there and thanks for your reply. The game is Project Cars. Here is a link to the video: https://www.twitch.tv/lefthandedmike/v/101287082, skip to 24 mins 40 seconds.....from there you will see the video is perfect in lightness and colour, then at 24 mins 52 seconds (as soon as the race starts) it goes all very dark like somone has flicked a switch and stays that way.

 

[sam686]

it goes all very dark like somone has flicked a switch and stays that way.

I found that the bottom corner that are normally a dark rectangle, was not darkened when everything else is darkened. Game capture using alpha capture? Check that your OBS capture setting is not capturing alpha transparency.

Many games like to run in 4 sub-colors, which are red, green, blue, and alpha. Alpha isn't shown in display monitor output, but can be captured for transparency effects for anything in the OBS scene behind OBS capture, for opengl or direct3D tools and programs that was designed to allow capturing alpha. Many games don't use it resulting in darkened picture in most areas but often not every area.