Question / Help Monitor Capture cropping top of display.

Ergonyx

Ergonyx

New Member
Alright. So this image will assist me in describing the issue at hand. Also, here's the log file.

As you can see in that image, the monitor capture is cropping out everything above the bookmarks bar. This applies to anything displayed on the monitor as seen in this video which is where I first noticed OBS had a problem.

So lets cover what I've already attempted to do by searching Google and these forums.

Tried recording a sub region.
Tried editing the sub region with -120 in the Y axis.
Attempted to reset the base resolution.
Fit to scene.
Downscaling
Creating a new scene.
Deleting and recreating the source.
Manually editing the scene.

Now. With what I've tried, I'm left with one possible cause. My monitors and 1920x1200 resolution. I have them set to 1920x1080 because that's standard.

So yeah. That's the problem I'm having right now. OBS captures the monitor perfectly if I go to my 1920x1200 resolution by the way.
 
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dping

Active Member
Ergonyx said:
Alright. So this image will assist me in describing the issue at hand. Also, here's the log file.

As you can see in that image, the monitor capture is cropping out everything above the bookmarks bar. This applies to anything displayed on the monitor as seen in this video which is where I first noticed OBS had a problem.

So lets cover what I've already attempted to do by searching Google and these forums.

Tried recording a sub region.
Tried editing the sub region with -120 in the Y axis.
Attempted to reset the base resolution.
Fit to scene.
Downscaling
Creating a new scene.
Deleting and recreating the source.
Manually editing the scene.

Now. With what I've tried, I'm left with one possible cause. My monitors and 1920x1200 resolution. I have them set to 1920x1080 because that's standard.

So yeah. That's the problem I'm having right now. OBS captures the monitor perfectly if I go to my 1920x1200 resolution by the way.
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I cant recall, is there an option in the monitor capture to ignore aspect ratio?
 
8BitCerberus

8BitCerberus

Member
I'm having the exact same problem, just noticed it tonight actually, but not sure when it started. I haven't recorded anything since about May (travel/vacation/work crap), last version I did any recording with was 0.14.2 and it did not have this issue.

The frustrating part is switching my monitor back to 1920x1200 it renders the whole 1920x1080 preview window in OBS (with aspect bars on the sides, of course, or I can stretch/fit it to fill the preview window entirely)

Monitor at 1920x1080, OBS set for 1920x1080

Monitor at 1920x1200, OBS set for 1920x1080

Windows' scaling is at 100%. Windows 10's "Game Bar" is turned off. Updated to OBS 0.15.4 and have tried both 32bit and 64bit just in case there was something really dumb going on with the 64bit build. Disabled upscaling through Nvidia control panel, in case that had anything to do with it. And I've deleted and recreated the Display Capture source. I haven't yet tried cleaning out my preferences, but I will be doing that this weekend and I might test out previous builds to see if the issue persists, while I'm at it.

Only seems to be happening with Display Capture, and only when the monitor is set to 1920x1080. Setting up Game Capture works fine, even setting the monitor resolution to 1920x1080, OBS captures the full screen fine.

I'd been using Display/Monitor capture with fullscreen/borderless because Game Capture automatically hooking into fullscreen games hasn't always been reliable for me, and I couldn't capture the Steam overlay (I occasionally do Steam Controller demos/tutorials and need the overlay to show the configuration screen) but I see overlay capture is an option to enable now on Game Capture, so that's cool. Keeping my fingers crossed Game Capture's auto hook is more reliable now (last time I tried it was back in 0.11.something builds), I don't often need to record my desktop so hopefully someone can help figure out what's going on here.
 
8BitCerberus

8BitCerberus

Member
Sorry I didn't follow up on this sooner, but I've confirmed this is still happening after moving my config folder out (I use OBS in portable mode) and letting it rebuild a brand new one to be sure there wasn't anything in my config that is causing it.

I'm thinking this may be related to an update either to Windows 10, or Nvidia drivers that happened sometime around or after February or April of this year (2016, in case this comes up later). I was thinking it was just Windows 10 itself, but I'm looking back at some footage I had recorded in February and this problem definitely wasn't happening back then. So I tried testing older builds, 0.13.1/2/4, 0.12.3, and 0.11.1/2/3/4 (ones that I know for sure this was not happening before) and this glitch is happening now.

Fortunately Game Capture's auto-hook seems to be working great now, but that won't help when I need to do desktop capture.

And another odd thing I noticed, the mouse cursor displays just fine in the ~120 or so pixels that seem to be missing. Here's a screenshot.
 
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