Bug Report (Partially FIXED) After updating from 0.64 to 0.651b OBS fails to capture monitor properly.

[Mozgan]

Zenbook, Intel HD 4400 + GeForce 730M

Been using OBS for a year for timelapses and streaming purposes. Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W10-KMPV1s8
Was using monitor capture, worked fine

Yesterday was dumb enough to update from 0.64 to 0.651b.
OBS is unoperable now, monitor capture now records only OBS itself, and sometimes crude overlays.
Example:
https://youtu.be/kCsYUSbgyEs

Uninstalling 0.651b and re-installing 0.64 did not help, now 0.64 fails too.
I repeat, problem appeared only after upgrading 0.64 to 0.651b.
No new drivers of hardware was installed.

LOG FILE:
https://gist.github.com/075091edcd8554162638

UPDATE:
Tried capturing PS CC 2014 as a "window" - OBS captures interface, but fails to capture the work on the file itself.

 

[Osiris]

Tried recreating the source?

 

[Mozgan]

Tried recreating the source?

Yes. Did it a couple of times.

The thing that catches my eye is that in 0.64 i had a mirror cascade when hitting "preview stream" or "start streaming" and not changing to other windows. You know, like endless mirrors, since OBS captured the monitor, and monitor showed OBS capturing the monitor. See attached "good.jpg"
In 0.651b it only shows up to 2nd mirror "level", sometimes getting to the 3rd, but freezing and choppy. If my brain works right, that means that there's something wrong in capturing scheme if OBS cannot even capture his own window properly. See attached "bad.jpg"

 

[Osiris]

Btw, in your log it shows you are running OBS on the nvidia, monitor capture shouldn't work at all in that case.

 

[Mozgan]

Btw, in your log it shows you are running OBS on the nvidia, monitor capture shouldn't work at all in that case.

But it did work in 0.64, right? Both OBS and PS CC 2014 I'm using for drawing are mandatory launched on 730m, and were like that for a year.

 

[Osiris]

Do you have logs from when you were using 0.64?

 

[Mozgan]

Do you have logs from when you were using 0.64?

Nope. Wiped them accidently while trying to reinstall 0.64.

But

I tried to launch OBS on integrated (as you said) and PS on 730m.... and it worked! Shouldn't that be directly opposite to what is written in your FAQ about making OBS use same graphic card the captured application uses?

 

[Osiris]

Well most non-3d applications (including the desktop) will already run on the Intel, usually only games or gpu-accelerated applications run on the nvidia.

 

[Mozgan]

Well most non-3d applications (including the desktop) will already run on the Intel, usually only games or gpu-accelerated applications run on the nvidia.

It's just weird that it worked normally as GPU-GPU combo for a year, and failed only after update.

Anyway, thanks for help, that was really fast!
Hope the team will find some solution for dual GPU systems somewhere in the future.

 

[Osiris]

That is not something the devs can fix, it's just how the switchable graphics system works.

 

[dping]

It's just weird that it worked normally as GPU-GPU combo for a year, and failed only after update.

Anyway, thanks for help, that was really fast!
Hope the team will find some solution for dual GPU systems somewhere in the future.

Glad you found a fix for monitor capture but...

Do you know that photoshop can be used with game capture right? game capture should capture everything in PS instead of just pieces like window capture does. And game capture shouldn't capture the desktop which is a plus as well. so you can alt-tab with ease.

again, if you attempt this, you'll need to:
1. add OBS to your nvidia control panel (maybe?)
2. set OBS back to the nvidia card.

 

[Mozgan]

Glad you found a fix for monitor capture but...

Do you know that photoshop can be used with game capture right? game capture should capture everything in PS instead of just pieces like window capture does. And game capture shouldn't capture the desktop which is a plus as well. so you can alt-tab with ease.

again, if you attempt this, you'll need to:
1. add OBS to your nvidia control panel (maybe?)
2. set OBS back to the nvidia card.

Well you see, I need monitor capture since most of the time I'm adressing various stuff exept PS - pictures on harddrive, text files, pictures in webbrowser, pictures on worktable, skype, etc.

 

[dping]

Well you see, I need monitor capture since most of the time I'm adressing various stuff exept PS - pictures on harddrive, text files, pictures in webbrowser, pictures on worktable, skype, etc.

Well then, monitor cap is what you need :)