Question / Help Need Help With Weird Mouse Capture Issue.

Sparktite

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So i tried looking up info on anyone having my same issue but its very hard to describe and from what i read the people with similar issues didnt have my exact issue. I also tried posting this in the obs reddit but it seems dead over there :(

So heres a clip from twitch so u can just see the mouse problem im having because i cant really describe it properly other than this weird box thing surrounding the cursor thats revealing sources behind the monitor capture.
Anyways heres the link:https://clips.twitch.tv/LuckyRichPhoneBatChest I can also make another if this is a bad example.

Im trying to use monitor capture that captures the cursor as well. Im using a scene source behind the monitor capture that is also of the same monitor capture. I also have a video thats of an animated background behind both of the monitor captures. What you see within the box thats around my mouse is the mentioned animated media source/background. The problem is this happens in most games, any game that shows a cursor or mouse icon, it also flickers when im in an fps without a visible cursor for example.

Can anyone tell me what im doing wrong or why the mouse could look as bad as it does?
Thnx a bunch <3
 

Sparktite

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No idea what caused the problem, and no idea how to replicate it. However I wanted to post an update in case anyone runs into this problem in the future, as I couldn't find any info online about the exact problem myself.
To explain what it looks like in case the link ever breaks, basically what's happening is there's a box that surrounds the mouse. It appears like there's a cutout and everything that isn't the mouse within that square turns transparent.
If you have just one monitor capture source then the transparency shows the black background of OBS, if you have multiple sources on top of each other it will reveal those sources in the box.
The way I fixed it was to remove that created source from every scene it was in. After doing that I then had to create a brand new monitor capture source and start using that one in place of the old one.
You can test to see if this fix will work for you by changing the monitor capture of your source to another monitor, then make the new monitor capture and disable and re-enable mouse capture to see if the weird transparent box thing disappears.
 
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