Sentient Anomaly
New Member
Hello guys, I've been using OBS for a while now although I mostly used the Display Capture feature to record gameplay and haven't really played around much with other features.
Anyways I wanted to ask why many time OBS does not record video, and this seems to happen in a variety of ways: it can be a fully black screen, a frame from the last time a alt-tab happened in or out of a game, or for example a frame of a pause menu. Audio is usually recorded without problems.
I tried various combinations of recording the whole display, or any full-screen application, or a specific appliaction, and it seems that certain combinations don't work at all with some games, while some other combinations of settings work only sometimes. Overall I'm quite confused.
I have recently done my first live streaming on youtube (much to my inexperience about a lot of things related to live streaming), but it was a complete disaster, since OBS did not show the game at all, it was stuck on a pause menu frame. When I alt-tabbed out of the game to show the browser, or when I changed scene to a still image, it worked fine.
At the time, there was no way for me to tell if the video was working fine, I do not have access to another computer or monitor to check my own stream.
You can review the video here. Just skip through it to see what it's wrong with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65IW0EyCN3g
I don't have a log of the issue at the moment but next time I'll try to provide it.
So I'd like to do some more streaming, hopefully some successful ones next time, but I feel like I have no control over OBS's actual status of things working as intended or not.
Not sure if required but I'll paste my system specs:
Chassis: Clevo P771ZM
Motherboard: Intel Z97 Chipset
GPU: GeForce GTX 980M 8192MB (8GB) GDDR5
CPU: i7-4790K | Quad Core | 8 Threads | 4,0 GHz
RAM: 16GB (2x8192) SO-DIMM DDR3 RAM 1600MHz Crucial
SSD: 512GB SSD Samsung m.2 XP941
SSD2: 256GB Crucial C300
OS: Windows 10 64 bit version 1511 (build 10586.494) <--- I actually got an OS update today, but this is what I have been using while experiencing the issue.
Nvidia Drvers: 364.72 (they are slightly outdated I know)
Anyways I wanted to ask why many time OBS does not record video, and this seems to happen in a variety of ways: it can be a fully black screen, a frame from the last time a alt-tab happened in or out of a game, or for example a frame of a pause menu. Audio is usually recorded without problems.
I tried various combinations of recording the whole display, or any full-screen application, or a specific appliaction, and it seems that certain combinations don't work at all with some games, while some other combinations of settings work only sometimes. Overall I'm quite confused.
I have recently done my first live streaming on youtube (much to my inexperience about a lot of things related to live streaming), but it was a complete disaster, since OBS did not show the game at all, it was stuck on a pause menu frame. When I alt-tabbed out of the game to show the browser, or when I changed scene to a still image, it worked fine.
At the time, there was no way for me to tell if the video was working fine, I do not have access to another computer or monitor to check my own stream.
You can review the video here. Just skip through it to see what it's wrong with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65IW0EyCN3g
I don't have a log of the issue at the moment but next time I'll try to provide it.
So I'd like to do some more streaming, hopefully some successful ones next time, but I feel like I have no control over OBS's actual status of things working as intended or not.
Not sure if required but I'll paste my system specs:
Chassis: Clevo P771ZM
Motherboard: Intel Z97 Chipset
GPU: GeForce GTX 980M 8192MB (8GB) GDDR5
CPU: i7-4790K | Quad Core | 8 Threads | 4,0 GHz
RAM: 16GB (2x8192) SO-DIMM DDR3 RAM 1600MHz Crucial
SSD: 512GB SSD Samsung m.2 XP941
SSD2: 256GB Crucial C300
OS: Windows 10 64 bit version 1511 (build 10586.494) <--- I actually got an OS update today, but this is what I have been using while experiencing the issue.
Nvidia Drvers: 364.72 (they are slightly outdated I know)