Question / Help Mouse cursor

[BullHorn7]

I have an issue in game (Path of Exile) where it doesn't show my cursor. I can see it with Software Capture, unfortunately, I don't want the viewers to see the rest of my screens besides the game.

Any ideas? I tried Googling and it told me to stop using Software Capture...

 

[Krazy]

This happens even with Window Capture and Aero enabled? Window Capture with Aero enabled will ONLY capture the window you specify, so people won't see anything but your game this way. Monitor Capture captures the entire desktop, as does Window Capture with Aero disabled.

 

[BullHorn7]

Aero is disabled on my PC (I use Classic Windows theme), so I didn't try playing with that.

Game Capture does what I want - minus the mouse cursor problem.
Software Capture shows people when I alt+tab and that's bad. If I specify Software Capture to use Window Capture with the game's .exe, it doesn't change anything and behaves the same as with Monitor Capture.

I just tried enabling the new standard Windows 7 theme with Aero and play around with the settings and it still shows all other windows that are on top of the game.

 

[Krazy]

????

Please show me a log file, it shouldn't be doing that.

 

[BullHorn7]

.log attached... It's a long one of me trying maaaany things.

 

[Xphome]

.log attached... It's a long one of me trying maaaany things.

It says Aero is disabled, but that might be because it was when you started OBS? You could download and try the experimental version and see if it makes any difference, also try having Aero on when you launch OBS (if you are going to try Window Capture).

 

[Krazy]

Yeah, Aero needs to be enabled if you want Window Capture to behave as intended. I forgot to mention that you need to restart OBS after you uncheck "DIsable Aero on startup" which was a pretty important piece of the puzzle....sorry about that.

 

[BullHorn7]

I enabled the Windows 7 theme and never used the "Disable Aero on startup" feature anyway. Still doesn't capture the game. I will try the experimental version now...

-EDIT: Same thing with the experimental version. I tried enabling the Compatibility Mode as well as the "Use point filtering" feature.

New log attached.

-EDIT: I just looked at the log, it says "Aero is disabled". Maybe my understanding of Aero is different? What do I have to enable apart from the Windows 7 theme?

 

[ThoNohT]

Aero is still disabled. You might have to enable 'desktop composition' in the windows performance settings.
(In english that's called 'Adjust the appearance and performance of windows')

 

[BullHorn7]

Oooh, there we go. I accidentally used the Windows 7 theme from the "Classic and High Contrast" tab, rather than the "Aero" tab.

That solved it, thanks everyone!

-EDIT: Not only it solved the problem, it also made OBS make less impact on my ingame FPS, for a while there I felt like OBS wasn't even streaming!

Here's how it looks now http://www.twitch.tv/bullhorn7/b/392072722 - With 900kbit/s bitrate... Yes, I need to move to a better country. ._.

 

[ThoNohT]

If you are using window capture for your game, then that's prefectly normal. It is a lot more efficient (virtually no impact) with aero on.

 

[Krazy]

Ah, ok that was going to be the next thing for me to suggest. Glad you got it sorted out. OBS capture with Aero really is almost like magic :P