Question / Help Game Capture picking up Steam overlay
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Okay so I've just run into this issue and I'm not sure if what I found will be helpful but I figured I would post it here anyway.
I'm able to duplicate this using H1Z1 so if any devs/admins want to see this issue or this workaround they can do this.
The FIX (working without showing steam overlay in game capture): With H1Z1 and OBS closed you open H1Z1 FIRST. once it's opened you do ALT+Enter to switch to windowed mode.... then when it's in windowed mode you open OBS and it will work properly with Game Capture. Once it's loaded in OBS you can switch to full screen on the game by doing ALT+Enter again and it will be fine...
To get the issue: If you open H1Z1 AFTER OBS it will still have the issue and show steam overlay in OBS....
If you open H1Z1 first but open it FULL screen and Alt+Tab to open OBS then the issue will STILL happen... The ONLY way to get around for me it is to have H1Z1 in windowed mode and open on the screen and THEN open OBS.
Weird issue but I hope this helps and I hope it can be fixed :( at least for this game.... maybe this will help figure out what's causing it for other games too?
Anyway if you need any more testing/info please let me know.
Thanks
I'm able to duplicate this using H1Z1 so if any devs/admins want to see this issue or this workaround they can do this.
The FIX (working without showing steam overlay in game capture): With H1Z1 and OBS closed you open H1Z1 FIRST. once it's opened you do ALT+Enter to switch to windowed mode.... then when it's in windowed mode you open OBS and it will work properly with Game Capture. Once it's loaded in OBS you can switch to full screen on the game by doing ALT+Enter again and it will be fine...
To get the issue: If you open H1Z1 AFTER OBS it will still have the issue and show steam overlay in OBS....
If you open H1Z1 first but open it FULL screen and Alt+Tab to open OBS then the issue will STILL happen... The ONLY way to get around for me it is to have H1Z1 in windowed mode and open on the screen and THEN open OBS.
Weird issue but I hope this helps and I hope it can be fixed :( at least for this game.... maybe this will help figure out what's causing it for other games too?
Anyway if you need any more testing/info please let me know.
Thanks
D3M1G0D
New Member
1 year later and this is still a problem for me. "Capture 3rd party overlays" is unchecked for me, and it's still capturing the steam overlay no matter which I start first, OBS or the game, and no matter if I use fullscreen, borderless, or windowed. At the same time, OBS (non-studio version) does not capture the steam overlay and works as intended. Is there a fix for this at all?
CapnCrunch
New Member
@Jim I'm wondering if this is the reverse of the issue I'm having where OBS refuses to pick up the Hearthstone Deck Overlay at all, as referenced in this post in this forum: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/window-capture-capturing-wrong-data.47639/
Tarun
Member
A workaround from the end of January this year... It's almost the end of May. That's nearly four months for a pending fix to a known issue that affects many. That's not an update either. tl;dr: Workaround != fix/solution.
Did you get charged for OBS?
Tarun
Member
It should be able to be fixed. The third party overlay checkbox isn't honored. In the thread I made I have located and been able to reproduce the issue reliably since March 19, 2016.
From my thread on the problem:
In short, if you have:
CHECKED "Capture any fullscreen application" - works fine, does not capture Steam Overlay. Problem is it will capture other full screen things that you may not want captured. Therefore, less control over what you capture/stream.
UNCHECKED "Capture any fullscreen application" - captures Steam Overlay somehow (and I'd take a guess it'd capture others as well?)
The 3rd party overlay is honored fine for me, so it's definitely not something that happens to everyone, making the bug less severe and not a high priority. There is limited time available for the one person that does 90% of the work on OBS Studio and as fatmatrow pointed out, you don't pay anything for OBS Studio, so you don't have the right to demand certain things be fixed in a certain timeframe. That is up to @Jim, who is definitely not unreasonable :)
As I already said, there's no way for OBS to control the order in which things are hooked by 3rd party apps. All the "capture 3rd party overlay" option does is make OBS capture at the end of the frame rather than the beginning, but if another hook has hooked the "begin frame" to draw its own stuff, then OBS has no choice but to capture what's already there. The option is misleading and should probably be removed.
Tarun
Member
What sort of configuration are you using? Have you tried using the steps I've mentioned and outlined to see if you can make a Scene, then Source and see if you can reproduce it? I've been able to on my desktop and laptop both. As I've said - this happens to many people (not everyone) which you can see in various threads and posts.
No one commented about the severity of the bug. I asked what the status of the bug was because I've not seen much communication about it. Additionally, my topic that I opened did not have much input which is why I also asked here to see what the status was. Looking through the topic you can see several say they have this issue, and ask what's going on. Even @D3M1G0D commented that they are still having this issue a year later.
I'm sorry but isn't that "pay" comment rather rude? fatmatrow was the one who brought up a negative comment about paying for OBS, not contributing to the discussion or finding a solution. A workaround is not a fix/solution. I certainly have not been demanding anything, either. :)
I've only asked for status updates to see what's going on with this bug. I've also asked why it's taking so long. Jim last posted about the bug January 31, 2016. I understand that some bugs can be very difficult to trace - as I develop software too. However, this is why I have left detailed steps on how to reproduce the issue reliably
I'm really interested to learn why this bug is happening. Especially why it only seems to happen if you uncheck "Capture any fullscreen application." Though I've made a post several times with details on how to reproduce it. :)
I hope this clears the air.
Your tone throughout has been very demanding. They keep answering why they can't do it in great detail, and you just refuse to accept the answer. I was hoping to give you a moment to reflect on the fact that the program is free, and doesn't have a big team constantly working on it.
Tarun
Member
@fatmatrow - I'm sorry you're assuming there's a "tone" and I think you too missed the point. They are answering in detail about "Capture third-party overlays (such as steam)" which is NOT a part of the issue. I have been more than clear illustrating how to reproduce the issue in the posts I have made in reference to the issue. Please reread the quoted post below:
Does that clear things up for you? :)
Does that clear things up for you? :)