OBS Cascading

[danQuixote7]

Hello, I was just wondering if anyone could help with this:

1. Downloaded OBS today to record a short clip of a video.
2. At first, the recording was just a black screen.
3. Fixed black screen by changing display graphics into power saving mode.
4. When using device capture, I get this cascading effect in both 3840x2160 and 1920x1080 (although less tiles at the lower resolution). It records like this too.

Question: Can this problem be solved or is my laptop incompatible with OBS?
Thank you.

Dell XPS 15 9570
16GB Ram
Nvidia GTX 1050Ti

 

[danQuixote7]

A programmer friend helped me find the solution to this problem.
Simply minimize the recording screen.
After 3 hours of looking here there and everywhere, it is as simple as that.

 

[FerretBomb]

Yep. It's because you were recording the screen that OBS was being displayed on.
No different than pointing a video camera at a TV showing what the camera is recording.
It's called the Droste effect, or 'hall of mirrors'.