Question / Help OBS 17.0.2 Game Capture not working properly? [Unreal Engine 3 issue]

[Sekra]

It has been a while since I've used OBS and today I was doing some testing with it and I noticed that using game capture not only was it capturing games not set to be captured. I always use the specific .exe selection for capturing games and yet OBS was capturing a game that wasn't set to be captured. The other issue I ran into with this was that OBS was also capturing my steam overlay with Game Capture, which effectively makes recording longer videos impossible without shutting down steam. Is this a conscious change and I would like to know if there is a way to turn off steam overlay from showing up with game capture now?

I had set my OBS to capture XCom: Enemy Within and the game I was playing was Killing Floor 2. While both games do use different versions of Unreal Engine, I do believe they run a vastly different version and the executable names are nowhere near the same. But like mentioned earlier if I stream or record I really don't want my steam overlay to show in the capture.

 

[Fenrir]

Please provide a log.

 

[Sekra]

https://gist.github.com/ef6c24316f09a20d641529df9e79c8ae

 

[Sekra]

Actually, the problems with Xcom game capture capturing KF2 were in this log..

 

[Fenrir]

Generally, the best method (and this is my opinion) is to use only a single Game Capture source, and then set it to use the hotkey to capture active window. Then, you can add the game capture source to any scenes that need it by using Add Existing and this will prevent any stepping on toes from happening when using multiple game captures.

 

[Sekra]

And while I first noticed the bug on the FTL fork of OBS the same thing kept happening on OBS without FTL too, and here is the log of OBS 17.0.2 a little later

 

[Sekra]

I'll check in a moment if the Steam overlay showing up on game capture is Killing Floor 2 specific or if I experience it in other games now too..

 

[Sekra]

After doing some extensive testing this seems to be an issue with playing Unreal Engine 3 games on steam. So far I have tested that the following games will capture each others when you set one game capture, even when linked to a specific .exe file, of any one of them:

-Killing Floor 2
-Red Orchestra 2 / Rising storm
-XCom Enemy Unknown / Enemy Within
-XCom 2
-Goat Simulator

The other issue with capturing these games on steam is that, like mentioned in my original post, the in-game steam overlay is shown on the capture like you were using monitor capture.

No issues are in any Unreal Engine 4 games though.