Question / Help How to enamble Projector Mode?

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OmNom

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I have searched google, youtube, and these forums and I can not find a definite answer as to how to go about enabling projector mode. Everything is old and outdated videos or posts. I am simply trying to display the stream output fullscreen to a second monitor (without the OBS Studio interface being visible.) I had read that Projector Mode was the answer, but everything I read says to right-click on the preview window and some magical menu is supposed to appear allowing me to select Projector Mode. Unfortunately there is no right-click menu at all, on anything. Only thing I can find that references Projector Mode, is in Settings > General > Projectors, with the three options for Hide Cursor, Always On Top, and Save Projectors on Exit.

Since there is so much outdated info out there, can anyone tell me how to get to Projector Mode? I am running OBS 20.1.1 on Windows 10.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
OmNom
 
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OmNom

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@Harold, are you saying it was not introduced until after 20.1.1? Because the last time I updated OBS Studio, it trashed my whole setup. Instantly had issues with NVENC, causing me to have to update my graphics card drivers, which trashed my system. I was forced to roll back my video drivers and reinstall an older version of OBS Studio. Rather not spend my time doing that again.

Let me know if you are sure it is only in the latest build.

Cheers,
OmNom
 
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@R1CH Sorry to say, but it most definitely did, and I opened a support thread at the time and it was verified that the NVENC was changed and required an update to the video drivers, even though NVENC worked fine before the OBS Update. So yes, an OBS Studio update DID cause something like that.

@Fenrir I see your lovely magical right-click menu (in 20.1.3)... but unfortunately, I have none. There is simply no right-click menu on anything in OBS 20.1.1 on my system. Why that is, I have no idea. No other way to access these options?

@R1CH Don't get me wrong. I appreciate your assistance, and I am not trying to be rude or argumentative, but I know for a fact it was an issue raised by an OBS Studio update that I spent 2 days trying to resolve before having to revert.

Cheers,
OmNom
 
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R1CH

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Some major version updates do change the minimum required versions for things like NVENC, however it shouldn't really be an issue to install a newer driver on a proper functioning system. Newer drivers are often required for newer games in any case, so you'd need to install it eventually.

Hotfixes (eg 20.1.1 to 20.1.3) rarely have such changes.
 
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Ah, well I will go ahead and give it a shot. When the NVENC issue cropped up, I believe I was on 18.x and updated to 20.x... I have since switched to x264 encoding as I found NVENC was actually a bottleneck for me and was causing frame drops. Having a decent processor (i5-6600k) and 32gig of memory, I found that letting the CPU do the encoding was much more stable in my "One Machine Gaming/Streaming Build", and allowed me to stream and play games with no trouble. So I believe I went ahead and updated OBS Studio and just switched encoders and was done with it.

For whatever reason, I have ALWAYS had issues updating graphics card drivers so I rarely ever do. Even though as you said, newer games supposedly require it, I have never once had a new game that needed a graphics card driver update, and this is from someone with 350+ games in my steam library, including AAA titles. So I have always found the notion of updating my graphics card drivers to be a myth. It may help someone, but it's never been necessary or helpful to me.

Thanks for your assistance. I will update OBS and see if it helps. If not I will be back, else, have a Happy New Year!

Cheers,
OmNom
 
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OmNom

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Updated to 20.1.3 and I still have no right-click menu on anything. Right mouse button/menus work fine on everything else on my system. No love from OBS Studio. Going to try a reboot.
 
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OmNom

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@R1CH I am also seeing intermittent issues with OBS Studio hanging when it is launched. it launches but does not appear on screen, I then have to end the process via task manager, and upon starting it a second time, it will appear. This just started happening after I installed the software for the Elgato HD60 S last night, and I initially though it was the Elgato Sound Capture software taking control of audio that OBS Studio expected to take control of, and was possibly causing OBS Studio to hang. So I disabled the Elgato Sound Capture app (by disabling it's startup task and rebooting) and this appeared to resolve the issue at the time as I was able to start OBS Studio after a reboot. Today I have seen the same behavior several times.

Oh and yea, Reboot didn't help, but maybe this is the reason I am lacking the right click menu? Because I am having to end the OBS64.exe process and then restart OBS Studio? Maybe it is loosing access to the right-click somewhere in the middle of killing the process and restarting OBS?

Still appreciate any assistance you can give. Thank you!

Cheers,
OmNom
 
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OmNom

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If there is a log file that I can supply, please let me know where to find it, and if I should grab it before killing the process, after killing the process, or after restarting OBS Studio, after killing the process.
 
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OmNom

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Well, oddly enough, I am lacking the right-click menu on Task Manager, so I am going to investigate it a bit further. Looking to see if there is an issue with a third-party extension that may be trying to insert itself into the right-click menu and failing, causing the right-click menu to fail. So I can't generate the dump from task manager, though OBS Studio is still hung in the background.

Let me do a bit of digging and I will get back to you.

Cheers,
OmNom
 
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R1CH

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Developer
Sounds like you have something nasty on your system if that's the case. I'd recommend an antivirus / malware scan as well as that definitely doesn't sound good.

As a workaround, you can try the context keyboard button (next to the right windows key) to see if that generates a menu, but I suspect it's more related to the menu itself rather than the mouse action.
 
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OmNom

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@R1CH As a matter of fact, that context menu button works perfectly. Didn't even know it was there. Learn something new everyday. Anyway. I have the dump file uploaded to dropbox but I can't seem to find the option to PM you the link.
 
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OmNom

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And just a fun fact, that context menu key actually works in OBS to give me the Projector options I was looking for originally, but I would like to resolve the hanging on startup issue now if possible. lol
 
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R1CH

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Thanks for sending over the dump. The freezing is caused by a bug in the Elgato drivers. It's a known issue with the CCUVC_X64.DLL file, it tries to call GDI32 functions in a place where it isn't allowed to do so, causing the Windows DLL loader lock to deadlock.

We can't do much about it on our end unfortunately, it's kind of random when it happens since the deadlock only occurs if something else in OBS also happens to be trying to load a DLL at the same time.
 
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