Overlay games are not captured by application capture

[goofyseeker3]

Overlay games are not captured by application capture (black screen only) and window capture does not list those games.
Audio application works fine on the game application, but not the game capture video image.
example: gog offline full version of theme park in default overlay mode on win11.

edit: changing (gog game) graphics settings to opengl from overlay with no other changes fixes things.

 

[koala]

What are "overlay games"? I searched for theme park at gog, but I don't get what might define this ancient game as "overlay game".

 

[goofyseeker3]

if you go in the graphics settings application in gog offline install package (for dosbox), then the default API setting is "overlay".
other possible api selections are surface, direct draw, directx and opengl. overlay is some draw mode for dosbox in windows.

 

[goofyseeker3]

same style of issue with command and conquer remastered.

I dont know what video output mode its using but exclusive non-windowed non-borderless default full screen mode is not captured by game capture.
Only when graphics settings are changed to windowed borderless and OBS is changed to window capture the image shows up.
application audio capture works fine even when video graphics output capture does not work.

 

[goofyseeker3]

same for community cnc-net YR application for c&c red alert 2, only windowed mode capture works. audio capture works with no problems.

 

[goofyseeker3]

same issue for c&c generals EA app version, but it does not show up in window selection list and gam capture shows black.

 

[goofyseeker3]

game capture does something strange, like with spore, when it flickers some random graphics layers even if the window/game itself (in full screen) does not show additional layers. window capture shows the same image as is on the window or screen.