BusterTheFox
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Hello! I'm trying to use OBS as recording software for RCT2, since Fraps doesn't pick it up. I already have it working fine, but I have a strange and very annoying problem.
Before I continue, I got it to work originally by using Monitor Capture and then running the game in fullscreen, which is the way I wanted to do it originally. However, when I do that, the MOUSE CURSOR in the final recording is in the wrong spot; it's restricted to the upper-left corner of the screen. I know why this happens, though. It's because RCT2 doesn't run in 1080p, but my monitor runs at that resolution. So it seems that internally, the game thinks it's up there running at the resolution I told it to run at (1280x720), but what I see is the game upscaled to fit my entire screen.
This is a problem because RCT2 is a creative game, and I pretty much NEED the cursor to point at the things I'm talking about and such while I'm playing. Plus there's so much clicking involved in the first place... But the cursor appears in the complete wrong position no matter what I try.
I found one other way of getting it to work. I got the Windowed Mode hack for the game to get it to run in a window instead of the game upscaling itself to my monitor. And that makes it work using Game Capture. AND it makes the mouse cursor appear in the right spot in the video. The problem is... it's running in a damn window! I feel like I can hardly see what I'm doing, even though it's running in 720p... And anyone who's played this game knows that when you're putting down things like scenery and such, it's tough enough already to get it exactly right.
So to sum it all up, I want the game to take up the full space of my monitor so I can see what I'm doing, and I want the on-screen mouse cursor to be where I damn well point it in the final video instead of being all in the upper-left corner. :p I've tried telling OBS to record in 720p instead of full 1080, but because the game is upscaled, it cuts off the game window. And like I said, I can make the game run in a window, but then I can't see it very well.
I think the best solution would be to somehow change Windows' resolution to 720p while I record. I'm not going to do that, because not only is it a flipping pain to switch back and fourth every time I want to record, I'm not even sure if that's possible...? :p Probably is, but I don't care to find out.
I'm running on Windows 8.1, by the way. Running the game in compatibility mode for older Windows OS' hasn't helped. I've tried running it in 640x480 mode, disabling scaling, and of course I'm running as Administrator. So yeah, I'm wondering if this is even possible at this point. I can't continue recording an entire Let's Play of the game with no mouse cursor, so if anyone has any ideas, please fire away.
EDIT: I still haven't found a problem-free solution, but the problem is fixed if I do simply lower Windows' resolution to that of the game. that way I can run it fullscreen and also have the cursor appear in the right place... It's still a pain to have to switch resolutions whenever I wanna record the game, but until I tried it, I was under the impression that I would have to reboot my computer every time I changed resolutions. Looks like I was wrong about that, it's a rather simple and painless thing to do on Win8.1. So I guess I'm okay with that... Time to start this darned Let's Play. No thanks to the community. x,D Sigh.
Before I continue, I got it to work originally by using Monitor Capture and then running the game in fullscreen, which is the way I wanted to do it originally. However, when I do that, the MOUSE CURSOR in the final recording is in the wrong spot; it's restricted to the upper-left corner of the screen. I know why this happens, though. It's because RCT2 doesn't run in 1080p, but my monitor runs at that resolution. So it seems that internally, the game thinks it's up there running at the resolution I told it to run at (1280x720), but what I see is the game upscaled to fit my entire screen.
This is a problem because RCT2 is a creative game, and I pretty much NEED the cursor to point at the things I'm talking about and such while I'm playing. Plus there's so much clicking involved in the first place... But the cursor appears in the complete wrong position no matter what I try.
I found one other way of getting it to work. I got the Windowed Mode hack for the game to get it to run in a window instead of the game upscaling itself to my monitor. And that makes it work using Game Capture. AND it makes the mouse cursor appear in the right spot in the video. The problem is... it's running in a damn window! I feel like I can hardly see what I'm doing, even though it's running in 720p... And anyone who's played this game knows that when you're putting down things like scenery and such, it's tough enough already to get it exactly right.
So to sum it all up, I want the game to take up the full space of my monitor so I can see what I'm doing, and I want the on-screen mouse cursor to be where I damn well point it in the final video instead of being all in the upper-left corner. :p I've tried telling OBS to record in 720p instead of full 1080, but because the game is upscaled, it cuts off the game window. And like I said, I can make the game run in a window, but then I can't see it very well.
I think the best solution would be to somehow change Windows' resolution to 720p while I record. I'm not going to do that, because not only is it a flipping pain to switch back and fourth every time I want to record, I'm not even sure if that's possible...? :p Probably is, but I don't care to find out.
I'm running on Windows 8.1, by the way. Running the game in compatibility mode for older Windows OS' hasn't helped. I've tried running it in 640x480 mode, disabling scaling, and of course I'm running as Administrator. So yeah, I'm wondering if this is even possible at this point. I can't continue recording an entire Let's Play of the game with no mouse cursor, so if anyone has any ideas, please fire away.
EDIT: I still haven't found a problem-free solution, but the problem is fixed if I do simply lower Windows' resolution to that of the game. that way I can run it fullscreen and also have the cursor appear in the right place... It's still a pain to have to switch resolutions whenever I wanna record the game, but until I tried it, I was under the impression that I would have to reboot my computer every time I changed resolutions. Looks like I was wrong about that, it's a rather simple and painless thing to do on Win8.1. So I guess I'm okay with that... Time to start this darned Let's Play. No thanks to the community. x,D Sigh.
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