I run a monthly stream in which I have one mutiplayer online game as the primary scene. It's where a number of my audience members are gathered and most of the action in the stream takes place. For the most part that's all I need, since most of the extra content I show consists of sound bites or still pictures. But there are times when I need to display a second or even a third game in addition to the first during the same stream session, and I haven't been able to make that work either by opening it as a game or a window capture. Instead, I have to shut down the MO game to run another. Is running multiple game scenes impossible in OBS, or am I missing the trick to it?
Need to run multiple game scenes
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Experimenting a little more, I may have stumbled on a solution myself. The second game that I need to run in my next stream opened as a scene in OBS when I set it to windowed at 1080 x 768. Then I was able to open it in OBS along with the main game. It didn't work as a full screen game capture.
FerretBomb
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OBS can capture multiple games at once, no problem. However, if they are all running in fullscreen, they will not capture due to how fullscreen games work under Windows (also why if you alt-tab out of a fullscreen game, the capture freezes or goes black in OBS; the game stops being rendered entirely, so there's nothing for OBS to capture).
Try running in Fullscreen Borderless/Fullscreen Windowed mode in the other games, you should be able to capture them normally, though you may need to use a Window Capture instead of a Game Capture with some, depending on how they are coded.
Try running in Fullscreen Borderless/Fullscreen Windowed mode in the other games, you should be able to capture them normally, though you may need to use a Window Capture instead of a Game Capture with some, depending on how they are coded.