Does version 29.1.3 support multiple montitors?

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The reason I ask is I am still using version 28.1.2 due to the next version after that did something to those of us using multiple monitors with OBS on Windows 10 and that version not supporting multiple monitors?

Can anyone elaborate on this to let me know if this newer version of OBS, 29.1.3, works with multiple monitors?

Thanks,
Steve in Central Vermont

 

[AaronD]

What do you mean? Each window is independent - Controls, Multiview, etc. - so you can put each of those on its own screen like anything else. And you can send each of the full-screen projectors to its own screen too.

What's the problem? Are you making a video wall from multiple screens, or something like that?

 

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I don't have any problems. I just remember one of the updates made it difficult for those of us that had multiple monitors that we could no longer switch to them after the update after 28.1.2.
I looked for the threads where those folks were having problems but I didn't find it/them.
It only happened within the last 3-6 months.

Maybe one of them will see this thread and comment.

 

[koala]

OBS does support multiple monitors. If there were general issues with that, you would see a huge number of posts about that issues, but there are none. The reports from a few months ago are from an update at that time that changed the internal behavior of how OBS selects a monitor for capture. In previous OBS versions, the monitor assignment wasn't persistent if you add or remove monitors while the system is running, that update addressed this. Every monitor selection became invalid with that update and the users had to re-select the monitor in the display capture properties. Some people didn't do this correctly, so they posted about that.

If you create a new display capture source on the current OBS, there are no such issues. You select the monitor your want to capture, and it's done.
Well, almost. It seems with certain hardware configurations, it's not possible to capture every monitor. Or the monitor that can be captured depends on the GPU OBS is running on. As far as I know, certain laptop hardware suffers from this. But this is how the hardware works, this isn't dependent on some OBS version.

 

[Blackink]

OBS does support multiple monitors. If there were general issues with that, you would see a huge number of posts about that issues, but there are none. The reports from a few months ago are from an update at that time that changed the internal behavior of how OBS selects a monitor for capture. In previous OBS versions, the monitor assignment wasn't persistent if you add or remove monitors while the system is running, that update addressed this. Every monitor selection became invalid with that update and the users had to re-select the monitor in the display capture properties. Some people didn't do this correctly, so they posted about that.

If you create a new display capture source on the current OBS, there are no such issues. You select the monitor your want to capture, and it's done.
Well, almost. It seems with certain hardware configurations, it's not possible to capture every monitor. Or the monitor that can be captured depends on the GPU OBS is running on. As far as I know, certain laptop hardware suffers from this. But this is how the hardware works, this isn't dependent on some OBS version.

Thanks for that explanation, well said!
Looks like I'll be giving it a try after I "Create a Restore Point" on my system.

 

[Blackink]

OBS does support multiple monitors. If there were general issues with that, you would see a huge number of posts about that issues, but there are none. The reports from a few months ago are from an update at that time that changed the internal behavior of how OBS selects a monitor for capture. In previous OBS versions, the monitor assignment wasn't persistent if you add or remove monitors while the system is running, that update addressed this. Every monitor selection became invalid with that update and the users had to re-select the monitor in the display capture properties. Some people didn't do this correctly, so they posted about that.

If you create a new display capture source on the current OBS, there are no such issues. You select the monitor your want to capture, and it's done.
Well, almost. It seems with certain hardware configurations, it's not possible to capture every monitor. Or the monitor that can be captured depends on the GPU OBS is running on. As far as I know, certain laptop hardware suffers from this. But this is how the hardware works, this isn't dependent on some OBS version.

I just did the upgrade to 29.1.3
The only thing I had to do was to get the monitors connected in the Scenes. It said they weren't recognized when i selected them via Hot Keys.
Once I went through and selected each monitor for each scene they showed up just fine.

Thanks to the staff at OBS for a quality product!