Question / Help Capture older Games

Ammonox

Member
Hello OBS Community,

Is there now an option to stream older games with older dx ? Like Command and Conquer 1 , Pizza Connection or other games they dont have Window Mode or Screen Resolution Settings? I really want to stream older games!

Thanks anyway!
 

Ammonox

Member
Window doesnt work cauze they dont have settings for window mode :( Screen Capture semi works, i get just a small size from the game nothing more :/
 

Fenrir

Forum Admin
You might be able to use window capture, even if it's a fullscreen app. Have you tried? Does the game not show up in the list?
 

Fenrir

Forum Admin
Try clicking on Display Capture and pressing ctrl+f, this will set the source to scale to inner bounds and fit the screen. Should help with the transitions.
 

cory collier

New Member
I'm having a problem with this Myself :( Trying to stream C&C: Generals Zero Hour using version 21.0.1 and nothing works. It'll capture audio....but it won't show the game in preview....
 

Johnny_Romance

New Member
Try clicking on Display Capture and pressing ctrl+f, this will set the source to scale to inner bounds and fit the screen. Should help with the transitions.

This worked, but only partially. It allows me to ctrl+f to fill the screen when I'm on the windows desktop, but the moment the game comes on it locks the mouse to the game screen (Simcity 4 in this case) then it displays poorly in OBS (aspect ratio squashed on the horizontal with black bars on sides - losing about 1/3 of visual area.) As mouse is locked to game, I have to alt tab out at which point the display capture reverts to Windows desktop... any ideas?
 

Fenrir

Forum Admin
Try using game or window capture instead, you should only be using display capture as a last resort for games.
 

Christian_c37

New Member
Hi, I'm bringing this thread back from the dead because I'm having the same problem with Command & Conquer Generals.

Basically what happens is the game forces you to use full screen via orgin and while OBS detects the window as existing it doesn't actually show anything other than a black screen or nothing at all (preview is also blank). This is a DX8 game to my knowledge and forces quite a funky resolution (max for me is 1920x1440).

Game capture/window capture, same result on both.

I tried generic screen capture but that doesn't seem to work either because the 1920x1440 isn't my native resolution and I can't select a display of that resolution when I alt-tab out of the game either. This game also doesn't support windowed mode via origin either it seems.

Happy to provide any logs that might help as I'd like to stream this game.
 

Christian_c37

New Member
According to a Google search, there are ways to force the game itself into windowed mode, even with the Origin version.

https://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=973434
Thanks, that worked.

For others with the same problem with the same game what I did was used the bibber launcher, forced a windowed resolution in the command line, then got OBS to capture it, closed C&C, removed the windowed command line argument, reopened it and now it captures it fine.

Thanks for the help @Bugfragged.
 

DKlion

New Member
Hi guys. im also having the same problem, with an old game called "The King's Heroes" ... my mouse are stuck in the game, i tried to use the "ctrl+f" it shows on OBS that i can do stuf with the sceen, but as i alt+tab the game minimize and it disappears again (from full screen) if i go into windoed mode, its just a little square where i can play, but i cant get the full screen so i can stream it...? what can i do ?
 
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