Question / Help Issues with OBS and Windows Taskbar

[StarshapedSTHLM]

Hello,

I just recently switched to OBS for my game streaming and am very pleased except for one detail; when I stream I use a program that hides the Windows Taskbar so that I can play "full-screen" while still reaming in windowed mode. This worked fine when I was using Xsplit, the screen region capturing showed the entire full game screen screen for viewers, but it seems OBS does not. Instead of a removed taskbar there seems to be just a black strip of the same size at the bottom of the scene. Effectively this crops a small but important region of the screen, more specifically the bottom part where the taskbar "should" be.

So, what I want is for the entire game screen region to be shown, without this annoying cropping (presumably) caused by the taskbar.

Any help is much appreciated.

 

[R1CH]

Any reason you can't just use game capture?

 

[StarshapedSTHLM]

Game capture seems to just give me a black screen and I have prior experience streaming in non-window mode which always resulted in annoying flickering for the viewers. That and windowed mode in general is just more convenient.

 

[Kharay]

Most titles support exactly what you want in the form of a Borderless Window, sometimes also called Windowed (Fullscreen). Which titles are we talking about here?

And the black screen Game Capture can be fixed. Could you show us a recent log of a session that didn't work out well? They're in %AppData%\OBS\logs

 

[dodgepong]

If you have a laptop, or a desktop computer with 2 graphics cards (including integrated graphics), read this for help with Game Capture black screens: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5965

What game are you trying to capture? Also, is Aero enabled?

 

[StarshapedSTHLM]

I'm streaming Warcraft 3 and aero is not disabled (should it be?).

 

[Kharay]

Typically Aero should only be disabled if you're using Monitor Capture. If you're not, don't bother with disabling it.

 

[dodgepong]

What program are you using to hide the taskbar? And can we see a video of the issue?

 

[StarshapedSTHLM]

The program I use to hide the taskbar is called WarKey++

Example of the problem: http://www.twitch.tv/starshapedsthlm/b/442723227

Just go to any point that's in-game and notice how the bottom part of the screen is cropped (but not cropped for me playing, just the viewers watching).

 

[hilalpro]

Doesn't windows already have an auto hide task bar feature ?