Question / Help Game Window display is not centered

[ArchangelZero]

Hi. Lately, I've been experiencing some problems with Game Window Capture, which is annoying since most games cannot be captured in full screen mode (they simply don't show up in OBS al long as I don't switch from Fullscreen to Window and set a "Capture Window" instead of "Capture Fullscreen" object) and not every game features the "borderless fullscreen window" mode.

Basically, if I try to capture a game in window mode at maximum resolution, OBS does not read it as "starting at the beginning of the window" but "starting at the beginning of the screen", so it cuts the uppermost part of the window (because of the menu/options strip that I cannot hide on my main screen and preventing me to center the window so that it starts from (0,0) on my screen) and displays, instead, the App/Menu bar (which should be cut as it does not belong to the window I want to capture) in the bottom part of the screen. If the window resolution is not at maximum, OBS cuts the window just like as it required an impossibile "positioning at (0,0)" on my main screen. It looks like OBS just "reads what it finds starting from (0,0)" on the screen and not from (0,0) in the window itself.

How can i fix this? I'll post a couple screenshots just to show the matter.

Thanks in advance for the answers

 

[koala]

You're using Windows 7 with Aero off. In this mode (Aero off), there is no frame buffer beyond from what's visible on your screen. What's not visible on screen, cannot be captured. If your game doesn't start at (0,0) of the screen but a few pixels above, these few pixels are lost.

To capture these, you need to enable Aero. With Aero enabled, every window gets its own frame buffer, so off-screen parts of a window can be captured.