Question / Help Potential OBS Overlay Issue?

[Trevor McBride]

I am trying to get a stream started up but have ran into a potential issue. The reason I say potential is because I am not sure if this is how it is supposed to function . Anyway, I have all my overlays positioned properly above my source used to capture, however, when actually entering a game (I have tried four games) the overlays are not on my screen, but they do appear post recording in the video (just not while i record). They also do not appear during a test stream. I kind of need the overlays as i do not have a second monitor. Any ideas? Do they only appear during a live stream? Thanks in advance.

 

[Harold]

OBS doesn't project the overlays on to games.

 

[Trevor McBride]

So When one is streaming and in game, they will not see overlays? So I cannot use chat overlay to see chat on my screen? If this is the case then I guess I will just use my tablet to look at chat.

 

[Harold]

The person playing the game will not see the overlay, but anyone watching the stream will.

 

[DEDRICK]

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/twitch-streamers-tool-for-single-monitor-streamers.364/

 

[Thewishmaster]

nice link but i cant seem to visit it and i really need something like this

 

[Tembersom]

Free - Make any window into an "overlay"

With this Autohotkey script, any window can be made click-through, stay-on-top and semi-transparent (transparency level can be changed or set to fully opaque); the default hotkey to toggle transparent/regular state is Win+W. Please note that it...

obsproject.com

Hope it helps, I was looking for this sort of stuff too, Needs AutoHotkey.