Question / Help Game Capture not working, ever.

[RgKTiamat]

So as the title says, since I've gotten the software, the Game Capture just doesn't work. Never has. I've used it in fullscreen, windowed, borderless, across ten or twelve games, and it has NEVER worked. I don't know why, I don't know if it's my system specs or what, but that's one of two issues I've had since ever. It's just black screens. The work around for that is to run everything in borderless and use desktop or window capture, which is fine, but annoying for games that won't run borderless such as Arma.


The second issue I've had is that everywhere I look, OBS is supposed to do a smooth crossfade transition when changing scenes. All I've ever gotten was jumpy, lagging hard cuts. No fade or anything, just Scene 1 freezes, Goes black, then Scene 2 appears in an instant. No idea why :( I kept hoping a future release would fix these issues, but to no avail. Finally decided to post to see if I could get some answers. No, I'm not utilizing Xfire (esp running windowed mode), yes I'm running in administrator.

Also, per the "Accesing your log file" post, I have no such button in the app. :\

Specs:
16g DDR3 RAM
Intel i7-3930K
ASUS P9X79 MoBo
2x AMD Radeon HD 7970
3x 24" ViewSonics
Corsair H100i Water Cooler
Logitech C920 1080p HD Webcam
Razer Naga Epic
Corsair K70 Mechanical Keyboard
Antec 300 Illusion Case

http://pastebin.com/1B4TMsJY - Log

 

[dodgepong]

First off, you're running an old version of OBS. Update to the latest version, 0.571, on the downloads page.

Next, OBS isn't running smoothly because you're trying to encode at 1080p60 at the medium preset. Even for an overclocked 3930k, that's an incredibly tall order. Streaming at 1080p60 is not recommended at all, since Flash is a huge resource hog and bogs down a lot of people's computers trying to display it. First, bring the preset back up to veryfast. I recommend dropping to 30fps, or downscaling by at least 1.25x, which will still look really good. If you're only doing local recording, then whatever, but 1080p60 at medium is still too much, even for local recording.

Next, I see you have a scene with two Monitor captures. Monitor capture is the slowest capture method available, and while it's bearable with Aero disabled, it's still a great way to slow down your frame render times. If you can avoid Monitor capture at all, I strongly recommend it (using Window capture + Aero enabled is a far, far better alternative in terms of performance). I realize that if game capture was working, you would probably use that, but I figured I'd mention this just for the sake of completeness.

Finally, with game capture, the problem could be a number of things. Just to rule out a few, make sure your GPU drivers are up to date, you're running OBS as administrator, and there aren't any other overlays that could be hooking the game as well (Teamspeak, FRAPS, etc). Out of curiosity, does it work with Crossfire disabled? (It should work with Crossfire enabled but I'm curious if disabling it has any effect).

 

[RgKTiamat]

Updated OBS, still isn't working. =\ Crossfire on, off, Downscaled, not, turned off Teamspeak, nothing has made a difference. :c kind of a bummer. Guess I'll go back to window/monitor capture. Also side note, Window capture bugs out with my Spotify. Monitor works fine, but window gives this strange pixellated texture. Any ideas as to what makes that happen?

 

[Lain]

Game capturing isn't working for you because of a particularly weird and rare error: 0x80070057 (Invalid parameter)

This error only should ever happen if you have some sort of strange software on your system interfering with game capture. Usually people running VirtuMVP have this, but that's usually used with laptops.

 

[RgKTiamat]

Well then. Any idea what I can do? Is there a list of known conflicting software or something I can check? I can't think of much that I've installed, especially considering how recently I built this pc.

 

[Lain]

If you recently build the PC, then it may just be out of date drivers, though you'd figure you'd have the latest drivers if you just build it recently. There isn't really a list of software, that's usually the only software that does it, but VirtuVMP only used with laptops so it wouldn't apply here -- so there has to be something else causing it. Directx, drivers, there's something weird going on. Maybe crossfire? I hope not but it's a possibility. I'd be interested in knowing what background applications you have active.

Seeing your computer first hand might be interesting as well. Perhaps teamviewer or something some time if you happen to drop by our chat room.