Question / Help Capturing Rainmeter!

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GM Rod

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All right, I've seen some peeps asking something similar but never this exact idea:

I only have one monitor.

I want to capture rainmeter in my stream, but obviously, I can't do Display Capture and then crop it because that'd just show whatever is on my screen, instead of Rainmeter. I've seen tutorials on how to do it, but ALL of the cases I've seen, are people with more than one monitor.

Now, Windows 10 has the multiple desktop thing.

There HAS to be a way to make OBS capture the other desktop, therefore using it as a virtual second monitor.

This way I can just throw Rainmeter on the other desktop and I'm all set!

Anyone?
 
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Tail_Nom

New Member
I don't think Windows 10's virtual desktop feature is going to help you here. Can't confirm, but I suspect it just isn't designed that way. I know, for example, attempting to capture a *window* in a virtual desktop does not work, which leads me to believe that it isn't rendering the virtual desktop when it isn't active, or at least isn't doing so in a constant or useful manner for this purpose. Could be wrong, but at the moment that avenue strikes me as... sub-optimal.

You could set Rainmeter elements that you want to capture as Position > Stay topmost and then enable Click through. This probably requires that your game be in windowed or fullscreen windowed mode, and means Rainmeter will be on your screen, too, but it lets you use a Display Capture for the job. I didn't test Click through extensively, and it isn't impossible some games/apps may complain, override the always on top, or behave strangely if your mouse is over the Rainmeter region. Sidenote: you'll have to use the taskbar Rainmeter button to undo the click-through option, since, obviously, you won't be able to click the actual Rainmeter object.

(Right click taskbar button, mouse over the element you want (say, illustro/System, for example), then go Settings > Position > Stay topmost. The click through option is located under [element] > Settings > Click through. If you're editing an ini directly, I believe AlwaysOnTop and ClickThrough are the equivalent options; I didn't try it.)

I'm relatively new to Rainmeter, so I'm not certain if there are other possibilities for you, and I don't know how it works well enough yet to speculate. Might be worth hitting up the Rainmeter forums and asking there.
 
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AlexMrk

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Hello. OBS doesn't see Rainmeter. Capture display , selecting displays in Rainmeter skin, capture window, enabling or disabling Aero, changing Aero theme to classic and vice versa don't help. Windows 7 32bit computer. On windows 10 32bit computer everything is OK, enable Capture Display and OBS sees Rainmeter, but the video resolution is not good after recording because it is netbook and display is small. Please help.
 
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