Question / Help Odd Game Capture Black Screens

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ottologist

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So, this is a very odd issue to me. At first, I thought it was Dark Souls 1 and its notoriously bad Game Capture history, but trying the workarounds for that didn't work, so I tried adding other games. All produce nothing but a black screen, so it wasn't an isolated issue. I originally thought it was https://obsproject.com/forum/thread...ames-after-latest-win10-update-3140743.44679/ This issue, here. So I waited for the updates, both of which did not fix the issue. Also, the file deletion workaround is fruitless. Another interesting note, is that all the current game captures I had placed in did and still work right now, it's only adding new Game Capture files that produces this black screen. In fact, I can even add Game Captures of the same game and it won't work.

So what is causing this? Log file below. Launched a simple 3D game known as Eldritch, tried to add it in Game Capture, saw the black screen, and (might) have removed it in this file. Can anybody help?

Running Windows 10 64-bit.

EDIT: I can also try adding the rest of the log files I currently have if need be. This problem started initially around the time I updated from OBS Multiplatform to OBS Studio, though correlation may not be causation.

EDIT #2: Played around some more with current game capture sources. If I try to modify them in any way, they fail to capture same as the rest. Specifically, I tried changing one of them to a global source. For a split second, eldritch captured, but the capture froze on the first frame.

EDIT #3: Tried reinstalling the latest stable build of standard OBS for testing, and game capture functions perfectly there. For the meantime, I'll use the older version of OBS as a workaround, but as it'll more than likely be legacy software within the year I'd like to avoid OBS Studio remaining a problem.
 

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Suslik V

Suslik V

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Post your log, with recording attempt, please.
  1. make a record
  2. stop it, don't close OBS Studio
  3. upload current log-file
  4. close OBS Studio.
 
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ottologist

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Suslik V said:
By now, I don't recommend to use more that one 'Game Capture' in one scene collection. Try to check 'Capture any full screen application' instead, and check the hooking in Studio Mode, if capture successful - make transition. Also, check this post: OBS Studio Game Capture Not Working At All
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No luck. Removing all game-specific game capture sources and adding a single universal source produces the exact same black screen.

Log file: https://gist.github.com/6f68075645bb8db550d7

Screenshot showing that the source is indeed fit-to-screen, if that's what your link is referring to: https://i.gyazo.com/a24dcf5c979eb197a129643d62d3883b.png

EDIT: Additionally, I'm sure it's not an issue with only the preview, as watching back the recordings shows the same blank screen.
 

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Suslik V

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2 options left in my pocket:

1) check 'Multi-adapter Compatibility'
2) permissions level (run obs studio as admin)
 
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ottologist

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Suslik V said:
2 options left in my pocket:

1) check 'Multi-adapter Compatibility'
2) permissions level (run obs studio as admin)
Click to expand...

These are basic troubleshooting things that I have unfortunately already tried. In fact my start menu shortcut for studio is modified to run as admin every time :(

Ah well, I can at least use normal OBS which still functions fine. Gonna miss the dark theme, though.
 
Suslik V

Suslik V

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Actually, no changes in capture way was implemented, (at least, during last 6 updates. Even last 'crash solving' update, only disables something like caching of the capture address/settings, this ensure, that when windows changes mapping in new update, OBS Studio always will use new data, as at its first run). So look deep down to your system for solution.

Check the list of software you are running, maybe some application already interfere with the source (security, graphics mod, capture applications). Create new scene collection and new profile, add single game capture, run fr-043, make test recording, check recorded file. If you still unable to see anything instead of black color, then you need to try harder.

For your attention, I summarized some difficulties happened to the forum users (solutions sorted by popularity):
Most known Difficulties:

No audio
  • no audio in recordings (green bar, track chosen, player able to play 4 tracks, codecs installed, speaker icon is on)
  • no audio in streaming (green bar, track chosen, speaker icon is on)
  • no audio heard from the source (re-config media source properties)

No video, black screen
  • no video, black screen in recordings/streaming (Fit to Screen, Multi-adapter compatibility in source properties, trust list of the security software, OpenGL renderer in advanced settings, Laptop switchable graphics, anti-cheat compatibility hook, run OBS Studio as admin, disable game mods)
  • no video from video input, camera (device drivers, device multiply use, wrong color space)

Synchronization problems
  • audio has constant delay (Advanced Audio Properties track offset)
  • audio increasing delay (FPS settings, device buffering, device time stamps, device drivers, OBS Studio issue)

Quality/distortion of audio/video
  • video/audio stutter (encoding settings, scene complexity, low PC specifications, buffer settings, CPU/GPU throttling due to overheat)
  • low video quality (encoding settings, low PC specifications, low quality hardware encoders)
  • audio quiet when OBS Studio is running (Windows sound communications tab settings, gain filter)

Control issues //disappear, inaccessible, hotkeys etc//
  • no main window (OBS started out of the desktop borders)
  • hotkeys not working (list of scenes/sources are focused)
  • filters unavailable (unsupported action for source type)

Performance issues
  • PC lags when OBS Studio running (low PC specifications, Laptop with switchable graphics, monitor with dynamic sync enabled, hardware overheat)
  • encoded video lags (encoding settings, scene complexity, low PC specifications, security software interference, buffer settings, CPU/GPU throttling due to overheat)

Crashes
  • OBS Studio crashes itself (Windows update, device drivers, hardware issue, OBS Studio issue)
  • Application//game// crashed when OBS Studio running (Windows update, application issue, device drivers, anti-cheat compatibility hook)

Other
  • lazy to read, wanna ask... (forum)
 
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