Question / Help No preview for the past month, how to fix?

[pixelscapes]

Hello, OBS stopped showing me previews about a month ago and I'm finally exasperated. It still records/streams just fine, but I can't preview or move anything around anymore.

I tried different things like right-clicking to enable/disable preview, I tried the advanced option to uncheck the hardware acceleration (even though this isn't a laptop)...

Finally I completely uninstalled OBS and reinstalled it. Same thing. What now?

https://obsproject.com/logs/5AhqaO7KjpARrikg

 

[Osiris]

So what do you see?

 

[pixelscapes]

Big blank nothin'. When I right-click where the preview would usually be, Enable Preview is already checked:

 

[MrFrenglish]

Try to run OBS studio as admin. Might fix.
You could also try an older version. See if it works there.
You should also try other capture methods to see if they work (game capture for instance).
And you could have a similar problem to this one: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/laptop-black-screen-when-capturing-read-here-first.5965/ . Id check out the solution there (even if its for laptops).

 

[Harold]

Nope, that's consistent with ether driver corruption or a recently installed program that is actually a massive conflict.

 

[pixelscapes]

I tried running it as an admin. Did a clean display driver install. Tried the thing from the linked thread above about Nvidia laptops. (For the latter, I was able to add OBS, but there was no option I found in any of the pulldowns for " set OBS to run on the Intel GPU ") None of that worked.

I looked at the programs installed during the months before I tried the OBS reinstall... nothing weird or optional there.

Can't mess around with this game capture method thing right now or how to roll back to some prior version of OBS. I'll try again tomorrow. Thanks everybody.