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atanasd16

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I just DL OBS and, fallowed the guide to make a video capture. I open scene, source I chose game capture. click start recording. it start recording but when game loads it shows blank screen. I am trying to record Iracing. it is online game. so game menu is explorer and when click play it loads the game, but after load its just blank screen. which option should I chose? I also tried capture window but it just record a black screen?
Please guide a newbie through this one. thank you
 
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dping

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atanasd16 said:
I just DL OBS and, fallowed the guide to make a video capture. I open scene, source I chose game capture. click start recording. it start recording but when game loads it shows blank screen. I am trying to record Iracing. it is online game. so game menu is explorer and when click play it loads the game, but after load its just blank screen. which option should I chose? I also tried capture window but it just record a black screen?
Please guide a newbie through this one. thank you
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you seem to be missing your logfile
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R1CH

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Follow the instructions closer. Your problem is likely trying to use monitor capture.
 
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atanasd16

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Going on 3 hrs now. My game is in full screen. I can start recording but soon as game goes in from loading to game in full screen it goes black screen. I tried all setting. Game capture etc. It said in full window mode to use game capture but it does not work. I'm using win7 pro 64 bit
 
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dping

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atanasd16 said:
Going on 3 hrs now. My game is in full screen. I can start recording but soon as game goes in from loading to game in full screen it goes black screen. I tried all setting. Game capture etc. It said in full window mode to use game capture but it does not work. I'm using win7 pro 64 bit
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when you're done posting a log I'll check this post again
 
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dping

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atanasd16 said:
https://gist.github.com/8f8d10ce57f07a87ea95
here we go thank you
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First, dont use monitor capture with windows 7. you will get aweful performance. Second, enable aero (uncheck disable aero in the video tab of OBS).

third, remove your game capture from the scene and rebuild it. this time with just specifying the game. dont use anticheat hook.


I would also suggest down-scaling in the video tab of OBS as well as settings your x264 preset to superfast in the advanced tab. then in the encoding tab and changing the custom buffer to 0.
 
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dping

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atanasd16 said:
I just tried again and same thing here is video uploaded to my Youtube channel. and here is my Log
https://gist.github.com/573d6b56fe088c188614
https://youtu.be/S05kjpnKCyA
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DWM.exe only works in replacement for monitor capture. Neither mode works for full screen games.
you must make a new scene and game capture (pointed to the game's exe this time) for it to capture the game.

I only mentioned the dwm.exe because it is a much more effecient way to capture desktop.

Also note that dont have the monitor capture in the same scene as a game capture, this will cause loss in encoding performance.

Lastly, you will probably need to downscale the recording when you get into the game because you are now capturing all three screens.

you can use the scene switcher to change scenes for you when you go from desktop to in-game.
 
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atanasd16

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I am sorry I don't understand. when I right click on create scene it just say to name it, not select the iracing.exe launch file. so I do not understand how to select to scene the game or exe file.
How do I point to the game exe file? and which mode to use last try was game capture. as u seen. I only have created 1 scene and 1 source. scene I just left it called scene, and source when I select game capture it names is game capture.
thank you for trying to help my newbie ass.
 
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dping

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atanasd16 said:
I am sorry I don't understand. when I right click on create scene it just say to name it, not select the iracing.exe launch file. so I do not understand how to select to scene the game or exe file.
How do I point to the game exe file? and which mode to use last try was game capture. as u seen. I only have created 1 scene and 1 source. scene I just left it called scene, and source when I select game capture it names is game capture.
thank you for trying to help my newbie ass.
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after you make a new scene you will then need to make another game capture then point that new game capture to your exe. the reason for scenes, is like making templates. each template is capable of different overlays (sources). after that is done you will be able to capture your game when that scene is selected.

the scene switcher (in settings) will do switching for you depending on what is currently being displayed on your screen.


also note that typical recordings are done in a native 16:9 resolution. since you are doing 3x 1280x1024, you will end up with black cropping bars on your final video when uploading to YT. Also, I mentioned down-scaling which ideal when attempting to record at high resolutions (which you recording is basically equivalent to 2K (2x 1080p).

Ideally, dowscaling by 1.5x will help with CPU usage a lot. (look in the video tab of OBS).
 
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