Question / Help Cursor in wrong spot when I livestream

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bakanino

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Hi!

I'm new to OBS, I just installed it yesterday after switching over from xsplit and the stream quality is way better!

However, my cursor is in the wrong spot when I stream - it is being shown towards the bottom right of its actual location.

I'm running Windows 8 64 bit via bootcamp on a new 15" Macbook Pro, and I am streaming on my second monitor. Anyone have an idea what's going on?

Thanks in advance!
 
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bakanino

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After a little more tinkering, the video is capturing the entire monitor properly (although I have to manually change the resolution to 1920x1080 because OBS thinks its 1280 x 720) but the cursor is being recorded as if the top left portion of the monitor (probably a 1280x720 pixel region) is the entire monitor. So if I put the cursor all the way in the top left, it is in the correct location. However, as I drag the cursor away from that corner, it moves further in the stream than it does on the actual monitor. Any idea for how I can change settings in OBS so that it recognizes the second monitor is 1920x1080?
 
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bakanino

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Even more strangely, when I have OBS in full screen, it properly recognizes the monitor as being 1920 x 1080. However, if I minimize it, it returns to treating the cursor as if it is within a 1280 x 720 region of the full screen. Furthermore, if I attempt to leave the OBS window open and place a window on top of it (I tested using chrome on top) the stream crashes entirely (that is, I only get dropped frames).

Very, very strange. Any help?!
 
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Lain

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This is very strange, and I don't know how to help unfortunately. If possible, please include a log file (would always advise looking at the sticky threads at the top of any support forum)
 
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Lain

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Did you change your DPI for windows at all? Or I wonder if this is an issue specific to this type of monitor.
 
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bakanino

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I think I figured it out. I had set text + icons on my desktop to be 150% size, and for some reason this setting also affected the location of my cursor (even if I was viewing on top of another program, such as Chrome). I've returned that setting to 100% and the cursor is now in the right location.
 
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