Question / Help oculus controls freak out skyrim VR when using OBS

[KlausK]

after some very thorough testing it seems anytime obs is running the same time as skyrim vr it causes spells and whats equipped in your hands to randomly change and the issue vanishes as soon as obs is off, I AM running latest version of obs

 

[Narcogen]

I would watch a video of that.

 

[KlausK]

I would watch a video of that.

sure a playthrough as a mage who cant control his powers, sounds like a d&d character with a negative trait.


but Its rather annoying and would like it to not do that

 

[Narcogen]

Are you using any keyboard shortcuts to control OBS, or perhaps an external device or program, like a Streamdeck, or OBS Websocket, or Touch Portal-- that remote controls OBS and might be using keybinds?

 

[KlausK]

Are you using any keyboard shortcuts to control OBS, or perhaps an external device or program, like a Streamdeck, or OBS Websocket, or Touch Portal-- that remote controls OBS and might be using keybinds?

no shortcuts, as soon as I hit record or stream the game will randomly swap out spells in my hands despite if I record the window, the oculus debug mirror, or the open vr capture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F--bxnc5e0g&feature=youtu.be

 

[Narcogen]

Have you got an OBS logfile from when this happens?

 

[KlausK]

here is log

 

[Narcogen]

I'm going to try and contact someone more familiar with VR to look at this. I don't have any VR hardware and I honestly can't think of what the mechanism would be that could cause this.

 

[Narcogen]

Here is their answer:

I've been using the OpenVR Input Plugin for years now, and have not seen anything like this. That said, I haven't played Skyrim specifically, yet, I have owned it since release though...

The capture plugin pipes into the OpenVR API and graphs the headset render frame, it should in theory not affect anything at all that has to do with input.

It's interesting that it is when they record or capture, not with OBS simply open, and it doesn't matter if they capture the game mirror, oculus mirror or openvr output.

I would ask to disconnect any other USB input devices, if they have a wheel or cabled gamepad plugged in. I mean, it's still super weird that OBS would cause any of this, but considering Skyrim is a ported title it likely has input hooks for a plethora of other devices. Maybe OBS emulates something? Or something that tries to talk to OBS send it to Skyrim instead.