Question / Help Only a black screen and some cursor. Audio works. NOT a laptop!

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C12345

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Trying to record monitor 2 display. Source set to DIsplay looked like it was going to work because monitor 2 was showing on my main monitor in the OBS program window.
log file is https://obsproject.com/logs/tOiiTT-jpk-UIdtW

The recorded video looks like this on every recording - mouse trails in exactly the same position.
What did I do wrong?
Thanks
Cassie

I see the log says
D3D11 GPU priority setup failed (not admin?)
. There IS only Admin, nobody else.
I did try the laptop thing , setting Options to HIgh performance, but there's only one graphics card (NVidia 1050) . I don't do games..

OBS-1.jpg
 
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koala

koala

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You have a Window capture source on top of your display capture in OBS. It may be that the display capture is obscured by the window capture, and the window capture currently doesn't capture something capture-able, so you 're just seeing a black screen.

How to check and change: disable the window capture, or remove the window capture, or move it below the display capture source in the "sources" window.
 
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C12345

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Thanks that was it..

Now it looks fine, but as far as I can see there's no way to indicate during a tutorial, whether/if the mouse left/right buttons are clicked?

Is that right?

That's a show-stopper, I need software which does that.
 
koala

koala

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OBS doesn't have a function to highlight the mouse position if mouse buttons are clicked. It has been asked in the forum before, and as far as I remember, people suggested software that provide this function more or less satisfactorily.
See here:

Option to highlight mouse cursor and mouse clicks

Hi, The ability to highlight mouse cursor and mouse clicks is helpful when you're making a video tutorial or a video to demonstrate a bug when doing software testing (e.g. to demonstrate clicking a button not doing anything). I don't think I see this feature in OBS Studio so may I suggest...
obsproject.com

A Google search for https://www.google.com/search?q=highlight+mouse+on+click gives more options. Results from the first result page seems promising. You also might want to look at Nohboard: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/nohboard.44/ although it doesn't visualize with the mouse pointer but with an overlay that shows a mouse with buttons (and optionally keys/keyboard).
 
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Thanks,. I've checked a load of them, but they're either paid apps or don't come near to what I want. I can see where the mouse IS, I want to be able to show which button is clicked.
Because of this I now have to wipe my computer and start again with W10, all programs and settings etc etc etc because of one of the Chrome extensions - I can't get rid of its spammy popups with any of the junk-removal tools. Uninstall Chrome and they're still there, clean computer and they go, reinstall chrome and they're back.

A mouse on the screen wouldn't be acceptable. Folk will be looking where the cursor is, not at a picture of a mouse.

I'll try screencast-o-matic. Hope that's not going to give me more junk.....
 
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I don't want/need to show a mouse, though. Some program I used years ago produced a circle around the pointer for a click, two concentric circles for a double click, and a thick circle for a right click. Keys + clicks were different colours. Camtasia or something like it I think.
If you have to look across a screen to see what a mouse is doing, you miss what the effect is. It's for an electronic circuit design/layout application where you use the appropriate combination of keys + clicks to move things, alighn things, change values etc.
 
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