Question / Help Getting Black screens when recording lower resolution games

[mrblackplays]

Hi guys I'll try to explain what's going on as succinctly as possible, and some of the things I've tried to do.

So I've been trying to do local recordings of a few older games on GOG, ones that run at a lower resolution than my monitors native resolution.

These games don't get picked up on OBS it's just a black screen, however it does get the audio!

I tried to mimic the recording settings of OBS as the same as the resolution of the game, so the game was 1024x640 and I matched that in the Base Resolution section. It still came up black when I tried to record footage.

As a side note I also noted any game with a lower resolution than native would sometimes shove all my windows to the very far side of my screen...weird?

Anyway I was wondering how people record lower resolution stuff on OBS? As I'm sure as hell having trouble :D

 

[Sapiens]

Knowing which games you're trying to capture and how you're trying to capture them would be useful.

 

[mrblackplays]

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Knowing which games you're trying to capture and how you're trying to capture them would be useful.

Sanitarium, Commandos Behind Enemy Lines, GOG titles mostly, Lands of Lore II.

Some of the more recent games like indie titles I think were like that, like the banner saga, But I windowed mode it. These older titles can't be windowed..

 

[mrblackplays]

It just seems to only happen whenever a game isn't my native resolution I think.

I just record with game capture and select the game etc

 

[dodgepong]

Game capture only works on DirectX 9 and later games, so a lot of old games don't work with it. You can try running the games in windowed mode and using Window capture on them.

 

[mrblackplays]

ahh I see, yeah you're right mate!