Question / Help Desktop capture works on Linux but not on Windows. WHY

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Young Nam

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Uh.. I'm sorry if my last 'why' was all caps. I'm not angry or something.

I have a laptop, using dual monitors. Well, I don't think the dual monitor is the problem because for some reason it's really difficult to make OBS to do desktop capture on Windows. It's like sometimes it worked and now it doesn't. Now, I can say for sure that it doesn't work with OBS studio. I could get it to working with OBS Classic by playing around with the 'capture from graphics card' thing, although I can't easily reproduce that with OBS classic either.

But, surprisingly, capturing desktop on Ubuntu just works like magic.

I don't know if I should ask this on SuperUser or StackExchange or something. But can I get any official ... or OBS guru answer?

I didn't know how to search for this kind of question. I'm sorry if I'm asking this again.

But OBS, the software itself really intrigues me and I want a jumpstart-knowledge-Q&A for me get start researching how OBS-like programs works on different OS.

Thank you in advance
 
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Young Nam

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sam686 said:
Try to turn off windows 10 DVR. Other game recordings might interfere with OBS.
https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+10+turn+off+DVR

You could try to right click OBS-Studio and run as administrator.
Click to expand...

Game capturing works just fine. For it, I don't need to run as administrator.

What I want is desktop capture, which works without much trouble on Ubuntu.

I would like to know what causes OBS to work well on Ubuntu and not on Windows.
 
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sam686

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intel HD graphics have Opengl 4.2 in linux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units
Radeon 7970M is "Southern islands", which have Opengl 4.5 https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/

Linux log file doesn't say the GPU name, only opengl version 4.2 which is what intel graphics supports. If linux's OBS-Studio could log the GPU name it can confirm this. This might show that linux is just using intel graphics, and windows is using some form of laptop hybrid intel and AMD graphics that kindof breaks monitor capture.
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/laptop-black-screen-when-capturing-read-here-first.5965/
 
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