Question / Help Quake comes up as a black screen

[hoek88]

My webcam works just fine but quake shows a black screen. I've tried classic and everytime i search in the forums its for some stupid nvidia laptop fix. and people are just mindlessly linking to that and then you never hear back from the original poster if the problem was resolved... im not on a laptop, nor am i running nvidia.. i have an amd ati 6970 card

 

[Beardedbob]

Hi,

Change from Game Capture to Desktop Capture as this can have some issues with certain games. Checking the log its having issues hooking the Quake.exe

21:08:41.705: [game-capture: 'Quake'] attempting to hook process: joequake.exe
21:08:41.738: [game-capture: 'Quake'] capture stopped

21:14:13.446: [game-capture: 'Quake'] attempting to hook process: explorer.exe
21:14:13.446: [game-capture: 'Quake'] cannot capture explorer.exe due to being blacklisted

Not sure what the blacklisted is maybe someone can shed some light?

On another note your CPU is going to struggle with x264 encoding so if you are getting lag try dropping the cpu preset from veryfast to ultrafast and tweak from there.

 

[hoek88]

There isnt any lag. Its just a black screen. My web cam comes up fine. And I can hear the quake audio. But its black and sometimes the edges of the player model leaks into color and then goes straight to black. I would have to show you in a video however for you to fully see whats happening.

 

[hoek88]

I used display capture now and still same thing.

 

[Beardedbob]

Hi,

True swapping to AMD VCE encoding which is the Radeon equivalent to Nvenc instead of x264 software.

Also the log shows it as still using game capture

source: 'Quake' (game_capture)

this can be problematic so first try it just a source as a monitor capture, if this isn't working then its something else.

repost log after success or failure.

 

[EBrito]

Beardedbod, some programs are blacklisted as a game capture (to avoid been captured wrongly when they are in full screen window) . For example , explorer, obs.

 

[Beardedbob]

Hey, blacklisted as in you can't use game capture for it?

 

[EBrito]

Yes.
If you try this:
Make OBS Fullscreen
Add gamecapture
Change to Capture specific window: OBS does not appear because is blacklisted.
So, even capturing standard option Capture any fullscreen aplication won´t hook OBS instead your game.

You can´t use window capture, also. (with OBS)

With Steam: also blacklisted from game capture. But you can use window capture.

Maybe in github there is a list of blacklisted apps.

 

[hoek88]

Yes.
If you try this:
Make OBS Fullscreen
Add gamecapture
Change to Capture specific window: OBS does not appear because is blacklisted.
So, even capturing standard option Capture any fullscreen aplication won´t hook OBS instead your game.

You can´t use window capture, also. (with OBS)

With Steam: also blacklisted from game capture. But you can use window capture.

Maybe in github there is a list of blacklisted apps.

So what is the solution? this is not a proposition for a solution. Are you saying its impossible to capture Quake? I don't see how you are changing the encoder. If i go to Settings > Output > Output Mode = Advanced and choose the Recording tab the only encoder that is available in the drop down bar is x264. How do you make OBS fullscreen?

 

[Sapiens]

Run OBS as admin and try game capture again. Does game capture work with other games? It could also be an issue with the particular source port you're trying to use.

 

[hoek88]

My user is an administrator. I even held shift down and right clicked on the OBS exe and ran as administrator to be perfectly redundant. I can't be the only person who wants to stream speedrunning Joequake or GLquake. These are staple clients in the quake community. Plus the same thing happens in Unreal Tournament. So how could it be the game?

 

[hoek88]

I did display capture with Warcraft 3 and it worked fine. but as soon as i run joequake or unreal its all messed up. quake is a tiny window in the top left corner and its mostly black with barely bleeding images every few seconds and unreal tournament is a small window in top left corner but i can see it. if i make the resolution bigger the unreal tournament window gets bigger. i attached the log from the successful warcraft 3 attempt

 

[hoek88]

same thing with counter strike. i load up counter strike with display capture, it shows up as a black box in the top left corner.

 

[hoek88]

display capture with rocket league does the same thing. black screen in the top left corner.

 

[OG See OH Zee]

You can't use display capture on games running in fullscreen. Run the game(s) in borderless window if available.

 

[hoek88]

I started out using game capture... at the beginning and then BeardedBob told me to use display capture..If you mean run quake in a Window instead of fullscreen... that doesn't seem to help either. i turned off the anti-cheat compatibility hook as well

 

[hoek88]

well this whole thing is pretty disappointing. thanks for your attempts everyone. appreciate your time.