Question / Help Display Capture stops working when I'm not looking

Themurloc

New Member
At unknown times, my display capture, which works fine when it isn't cutting out, will just, well...cut out. This usually doesn't happen under circumstances where i can pinpoint the exact time it happens, or what i was doing when it happened, so it's been very difficult to reproduce. Fortunately, restarting OBS will make it continue to work, but it is a bit of an annoyance, and since I don't know what causes it, It's always a concern that it could happen in the middle of a stream when I want to show the desktop.

Most recently, I was able to nail down a period of time between the end of a stream, and a short while later where the display capture had suddenly stopped working and needed a restart of OBS. During this time, I had changed scenes to something that had no form of capture active, and it had stopped working when i switched back to the scene with display capture on. Recreating the same circumstances did not cause the same failure.

https://hastebin.com/uluqivuzoh

can anyone tell what's wrong and how to prevent this from happening?
 

Themurloc

New Member
Update: I found out the main cause of the issue more precisely. The capture fails any time User Account Control wants to confirm if I want a program to make changes to my computer when I run it as an administrator. I worked around the issue by changing my UAC settings to not dim the computer with the alerts. Due to the nature of the computer dimming aspect of UAC I can only assume that certain full screen applications might also trigger this capture failure. However, the most common cause has been resolved.
 

Narcogen

Active Member
Also, Windows is out of date and Game mode is on which negatively impacts performance. Update and turn it off; instructions below.

16:35:01.316: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 17134 (revision: 472; 64-bit)
16:35:01.316: Running as administrator: true
16:35:01.316: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
16:35:01.316: Windows 10 Gaming Features:
16:35:01.316: Game DVR: On
 
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