Does OBS Game Capture support in-game brightness now?

[Gene90]

Just a quick question, really - I undoubtedly remember that a few years back, recordings of certain games wouldn't change if you tweaked the in-game settings (contrast, gamma, etc). A user pretty much had to rely on OBS filters rather than in-game settings. So now, in 2023, i tried to change the brightness of one game and voila - OBS responded by also making the footage brighter. My question is: is this a feature of newer OBS that wasn't available a few years ago or is this purely dependant on the executable (in other words, every specific game that you try to capture).

Thanks.

 

[koala]

For game capture, OBS is reading from the frame buffer of the GPU and uses what it gets from there. If your game sets its brightness itself in its frame buffer, OBS is capturing it. If you configured your video driver to do any video postprocessing to make things look brighter in general, this cannot be captured by OBS, because it isn't reflected in any frame buffer, only in what goes out on the cable to the monitor.

 

[Gene90]

Thank you for the reply Koala. So ehhm, in both cases this wasn’t post-processing (rather i just changed the in-game settings while recording in Game Capture). For one particular game, this alteration of settings was also reflected in the OBS recording, and in the other - it was not. This made me wonder whether this is game specific, or whether something was changed in OBS itself. So just to clarify, I didn’t change the overall monitor brightness or anything like that, strictly just the in game settings