Question / Help Partial Screen Capture

[Larry_L]

Hi Folks:

First, thank you, all who contributed to this great OBS software. I'm having a problem, but you've done something very nice here.

I'm using a Windows version of the program that I downloaded about 6 months ago, Version 0.64b. Is it time to upgrade to the multi-platform software?

I've dabbled with streaming out of curiosity. Nothing I do would be of interest to anybody else, but I have found OBS's recording capability to be very useful. Not the brilliant quality of Bandycam, but not the multi-gigabite size files for 10 minutes of video either.

I have done the Twitch thing, for a few minutes, and the recording thing, more extensively, without a problem.

Last night I wanted to capture instruction someone was offering for playing World of Tanks. I started OBS and was only able to preview and capture a partial screen, about the upper left 2/3 of what was being displayed by World of Tanks. The content outside of that part of the screen was missing, displayed as a broad black band wrapping around the bottom and right part of the display.

I tried this and that, but was unable to get the content to properly preview or capture.

People were waiting, and I wasn't able to capture the log, but this has happened before, and the problem just goes away for no apparent reason.

Today, OBS previews World of Tanks just fine.

I use a nice gaming laptop, Asus G750JZ, with 2 monitors. The laptop's monitor is 1080 x 1920, the external monitor is 1050 x 1680.

I don't believe this is an issue of screen resolution. If 1050 pixels vertically, and 1680 pixels horizontally, were displayed on a 1080 x 1920 screen, the image size would be quite a bit larger than what was displayed in the preview last night.

I tried recording the game from the external monitor, and then the laptop's monitor, hoping that would address some issue with the different resolutions. It didn't.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong, or how to fix this problem the next time it happens?

Thanks
Larry

 

[jdm12983]

Well, not sure about the capturing/display issues. When you are capturing what capture mode are you using? (Window, Monitor, Game?)

Depending on what you are wanting to capture you will need to use different ones/types.

As for Multiplatform OBS: unless you just want to try out new features, and possibly some no being there yet and/or not working the same as regular OBS just stick with the latest version of OBS (not Multiplatorm OBS). The Multiplatform version doesn't have all of the regular OBS features back into it yet.

 

[Larry_L]

Thanks Jdm:

It's been a while since I've set this up, but I think I'm in game mode.

I have selected a scene I've named "World of Tanks 1" and a source identified as "WoT" from two boxes in the lower left portion of OBS's display.

I capture WoT from whichever screen it happens to be displayed on by specifying scene and source.

 

[Myname]

It happened to me once but I played with the settings and fixed it, it's super easy just click settings in OBS and then video settings and then switch your base resolution to monitor. :D Hope it helps! Oh and I have 2 Monitors so if you might not have this, if not just change the custom in base resolution to your screen resolution.

 

[dping]

Thanks Jdm:

It's been a while since I've set this up, but I think I'm in game mode.

I have selected a scene I've named "World of Tanks 1" and a source identified as "WoT" from two boxes in the lower left portion of OBS's display.

I capture WoT from whichever screen it happens to be displayed on by specifying scene and source.

in the properties of the game capture, select "stretch image to screen" and "ignore aspect ratio" just in case (not not required). press ok then preview stream, right click in the game capture again and this time select "position/size" then "fit to screen"