Bypass Windows Volume Level in Capture

[Guido45]

My problem now is that I want to capture full game volume but listen to something else on higher volume without affecting the capture. But if I lower the game volume in Windows Volume Mixer then it's not captured at full volume even with application audio capture.

Yup. I understand your pain. I have a similar issue with capturing one source while trying to view another. The source i capture must be full volume so if i for instance play a video at the same time, i have to hear both sources in full volume. If i "mute" the captured source, no sound is written in the resulting video. It would be great if there was a way to mute the captured source and hear everything else but also record in full volume in the final recorded video at the same time. I've tried all that on a laptop.

 

[AaronD]

...I have a similar issue...

Read the rest of this thread. I think I've been around this bush several times now.

TL;DR: OBS can't be made to work, even on the developers' end. It's an operating system problem, not OBS. Deal with it.

Most of my beating around the bush is to explain how to deal with it. Yes, it's messy and not straightforward, but there really is no clean solution.