OBS suddenly not showing any display I use

HydroPage90

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I was using OBS on my laptop for a little bit, and it worked perfectly fine. However, I'm not sure when it happened, but it just stopped displaying anything at all
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I try to add a display capture, only to get this blank screen on it, and if I actually "OK" this and add it, it's pretty much completely black except for a tiny red square on the top left of the display
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If I click inside the display, the square disappears. My OBS version is visible there, I am running on an Alienware Windows 10 laptop with an NVIDIA 970 discrete.
And to make this more concrete, I just now factory reset my computer, and reinstalled OBS, to no difference in results.

What could I do?
 

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HydroPage90

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I should've included that I have looked these sources up. But the videos I found had a completely black screen (no little red square), and by switching OBS to use the NVIDIA GPU, their problem was fixed, when this did not work for me
 

HydroPage90

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For each GPU (Intel integrated and NVIDIA discrete), I just shut down OBS, set it to the GPU, and started it, and added a display capture. For both GPUs, that little red square appeared, and the rest of the display shows black. This doesn't seem to be changing anything
 

HydroPage90

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Never mind, this is quite embarrassing. I was using the NVIDIA control panel to set the GPUs to use instead of explicitly what that article said. I'm not sure why that was any different
 
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