Question / Help Getting black frames when loading up a game capture window for the first time in a session.

[Mr_Oddity]

When I scene-transition to a game capture window of a game I have just loaded (i.e. the first time it is shown in the OBS session) the game will not immediately appear in the scene. Instead I see black frames for 2-3 seconds before it finally appears.

After fiddling around with testing, some notes:

• This issue only affects the game capture scene, transitioning between all other scenes works fine.
• This issue only occurs when switching to the game the first time after it has been booted. Once it has appeared in the scene once, transitioning back and forth from the scene works without issue.
• The issue occurs on a per-session basis, so will reoccur every time I start a game for the first time in an OBS session.
• An overlay that I have present in the same scene appears immediately first-time, so the issue appears to be with the game capture functionality, not the scene set-up itself.
• The issue is not restricted to a single game, but affects all games tested. Some games (such as PUBG) seem to take longer to load in than others.

Edit: Doing a bit of further testing, it seems like if I leave the game running in the background for a while without switching, and then scene-transition to the game capture, it works immediately, so it seems to be an issue with the initialisation of the game the first time around.

Two log files from separate sessions linked below, all help greatly appreciated!

https://gist.github.com/d950580ba6e921bbeef8c7a55e1cf728
https://gist.github.com/876827ed465b8477cf72b4f473170a59

 

[Mr_Oddity]

Bumping this thread. If there's any other useful information I can provide please let me know. :)

 

[Osiris]

In both cases Subnautica was captured correctly. Hooking into a game isn't always instant.