Since the most recent update to OBS Display Cap and Game Cap will cease to function once I run a game. The display cap will go to a black screen unless I exit OBS and restart the application. Game Capture will capture some games and not others, or will capture a game for a while then suddenly stop working. My most recent stream log is attached.
Bug Report Display & Game Captures Stop Working
- Thread starter PlantLamp
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Harold,
From my understanding, if you got a scene with different types of capture sources (window, game, display), they all get loaded, initialized, and are in a running state. Clicking the eye icon affects the visibility/show state. It doesn't turn on/off (instantiate, delete) those capture sources. In other words, they are always running.
I think this confuses a lot of people and they don't know about this. From a programming standpoint, I can see this. But from a non-programming viewpoint, its not obvious. What should be done is that OBS Studio should prevent adding one of those capture sources to a Scene when one of those types already exist. That would put an end to a lot of these kinds of problems.
Additional:
It will probably break a lot of existing Scenes already setup this way though....
From my understanding, if you got a scene with different types of capture sources (window, game, display), they all get loaded, initialized, and are in a running state. Clicking the eye icon affects the visibility/show state. It doesn't turn on/off (instantiate, delete) those capture sources. In other words, they are always running.
I think this confuses a lot of people and they don't know about this. From a programming standpoint, I can see this. But from a non-programming viewpoint, its not obvious. What should be done is that OBS Studio should prevent adding one of those capture sources to a Scene when one of those types already exist. That would put an end to a lot of these kinds of problems.
Additional:
It will probably break a lot of existing Scenes already setup this way though....
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I have never had issues with having multiple capture types in a scene in any other build. You'll even see that I have two display captures in this scene, one is the normal display capture the other is my life bar area only for PUBG so I can relocate it. The issue I am having is since this newest update the captures do not capture anything whether by themselves or when in scenes together. The display capture will work as long as I only run certain games. Otherwise it will go to a black screen after the game is running then I must exit OBS and re-launch it to have it function again. Sometimes it only goes to a black screen when I alt+tab from a game or if I using another window that is open on my second monitor.