Question / Help Recording leaves large outline of black.

[ConnorC]

I've been trying to record the game "The Forest" and when recording it leaves large gaps on the bottom and right side of the screen that are blank. I have tried every different combination of recording downsizing and the screen size in the game even full screen and windowed but don't know what to do. I attached a YouTube video of some gameplay and you can see the screen is pretty messed up. The screen is like that before it was posted to YouTube. Here's the video.

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Here's my log I didn't know what exactly was needed so I copied everything.

21:09:32: Open Broadcaster Software v0.624b - 32bit (´・ω・｀)
21:09:32: -------------------------------
21:09:32: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
21:09:32: CPU Speed: 2195MHz
21:09:32: Physical Memory: 4095MB Total, 4095MB Free
21:09:32: stepping id: 7, model 42, family 6, type 0, extmodel 1, extfamily 0, HTT 1, logical cores 8, total cores 4
21:09:32: monitor 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1080}
21:09:32: Windows Version: 6.1 Build 7601 S
21:09:32: Aero is Disabled
21:09:32: -------------------------------
21:09:32: OBS Modules:
21:09:32: Base Address Module
21:09:32: 00F80000 OBS.exe
21:09:32: 77B20000 OBSApi.dll
21:09:32: 59830000 DShowPlugin.dll
21:09:32: 65DF0000 GraphicsCapture.dll
21:09:32: 60CF0000 NoiseGate.dll
21:09:32: 65A50000 PSVPlugin.dll
21:09:32: ------------------------------------------
21:09:32: Adapter 1
21:09:32: Video Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
21:09:32: Video Adapter Dedicated Video Memory: 3166109696
21:09:32: Video Adapter Shared System Memory: 1128792064
21:09:32: Video Adapter Output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true
21:09:32: =====Stream Start: 2014-06-03, 21:09:32===============================================
21:09:32: Multithreaded optimizations: On
21:09:32: Base resolution: 1920x1080
21:09:32: Output resolution: 1096x616
21:09:32: ------------------------------------------
21:09:32: Loading up D3D10 on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M (Adapter 1)...
21:09:32: ------------------------------------------
21:09:32: Audio Format: 48000 Hz
21:09:32: ------------------------------------------
21:09:32: Audio Channels: 2 Ch
21:09:32: Playback device {0.0.0.00000000}.{2f021778-88b5-448e-829e-1cfb5493c6cf}
21:09:32: ------------------------------------------
21:09:32: Using desktop audio input: Speakers (USB Audio Device)
21:09:32: Global Audio time adjust: 0
21:09:32: ------------------------------------------
21:09:32: Using auxilary audio input: Microphone (USB Audio Device)
21:09:32: Mic time offset: 0
21:09:32: ------------------------------------------
21:09:32: Audio Encoding: AAC
21:09:32: bitrate: 256
21:09:32: Using Window Capture
21:09:32: Scene buffering time set to 700
21:09:32: ------------------------------------------
21:09:32: Video Encoding: x264
21:09:32: fps: 35
21:09:32: width: 1096, height: 616
21:09:32: preset: veryfast
21:09:32: profile: high
21:09:32: keyint: 250
21:09:32: CBR: yes
21:09:32: CFR: yes
21:09:32: max bitrate: 3000
21:09:32: buffer size: 3000
21:09:32: ------------------------------------------
21:09:38: Total frames encoded: 155, total frames duplicated: 1 (0.65%)
21:09:38: Total frames rendered: 158, number of late frames: 1 (0.63%) (it's okay for some frames to be late)
21:09:38:
21:09:38: Profiler time results:
21:09:38:
21:09:38: ==============================================================
21:09:38: video thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 6.304 ms] [children: 79.6%] [unaccounted: 20.4%]
21:09:38: | scene->Preprocess - [76.6%] [avg time: 4.832 ms]
21:09:38: | GPU download and conversion - [2.95%] [avg time: 0.186 ms] [children: 2.86%] [unaccounted: 0.0952%]
21:09:38: | | flush - [2.55%] [avg time: 0.161 ms]
21:09:38: | | CopyResource - [0.254%] [avg time: 0.016 ms]
21:09:38: | | conversion to 4:2:0 - [0.0476%] [avg time: 0.003 ms]
21:09:38: Convert444Threads - [100%] [avg time: 0.412 ms] [children: 98.5%] [unaccounted: 1.46%]
21:09:38: | Convert444toNV12 - [98.5%] [avg time: 0.406 ms]
21:09:38: encoder thread frame - [100%] [avg time: 0.775 ms] [children: 1.03%] [unaccounted: 99%]
21:09:38: | sending stuff out - [1.03%] [avg time: 0.008 ms]
21:09:38: ==============================================================
21:09:38:
21:09:38:
21:09:38: Profiler CPU results:
21:09:38:
21:09:38: ==============================================================
21:09:38: video thread frame - [cpu time: avg 2.369 ms, total 374.402 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:09:38: | scene->Preprocess - [cpu time: avg 1.184 ms, total 187.2 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:09:38: | GPU download and conversion - [cpu time: avg 0.098 ms, total 15.6 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:09:38: | | flush - [cpu time: avg 0.098 ms, total 15.6 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:09:38: | | CopyResource - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:09:38: | | conversion to 4:2:0 - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:09:38: Convert444Threads - [cpu time: avg 0.119 ms, total 31.2 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
21:09:38: | Convert444toNV12 - [cpu time: avg 0.119 ms, total 31.2 ms] [avg calls per frame: 2]
21:09:38: encoder thread frame - [cpu time: avg 0.36 ms, total 46.8 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:09:38: | sending stuff out - [cpu time: avg 0 ms, total 0 ms] [avg calls per frame: 1]
21:09:38: ==============================================================
21:09:38:
21:09:38: =====Stream End: 2014-06-03, 21:09:38=================================================

 

[sendblink23]

Well are you certain the game is fully covering the Preview screen in OBS?

I'd suggest running the game in windowed mode, then either using game capture or window capture.. then just use fit to screen in the properties for such source. You can manually stretch(hold shift) and crop(hold alt) as well.

 

[ConnorC]

Thank you I wasn't really sure what I was doing as I am new to OBS. I never used game capture before so I tried it out and got it to work. Couldn't get it to work in window capture though still but that's probably just me because I don't understand how to manually crop it. I just checked the stretch to screen box in game capture. Would that make the game look stretched out? sorry I didn't have time to see if it looked stretch out forgot.

 

[Jack0r]

Unless you check "ignore aspect ratio" it will keep its aspect and only scale to your Base Resolution of OBS. So the picture should look just fine assuming the game runs on your desktop resolution.
Only in the case that your game runs on a lower resolution than your desktop/base resolution it would get "upscaled" in size, but still keep the aspect of course. You would get a kind of Zoom effect which can decrease the quality slightly.
To get around that you could lower your Base Resolution in OBS to the Games resolution and set the downscale to 0. The game should then fit perfectly into your OBS scene.