Question / Help Screen capture Fullscreen game bug or not?

chummy

Member
Hey guys, i just notice than when i want to record a fullscreen game with screen capture i be forced to open OBS before launching game and then after launching i cannot alt+tab or OBS will produce a black screen recording. With game in Borderless mode this dont happen.

Is that a bug or is the way how screen capture works with Fullscreen?
 

Harold

Active Member
You definitely shouldn't be alt+tabbing out of the game once recording is started, and you definitely should not be alt+tabbing out of the game to check to see if you're getting a black screen when dealing with fullscreen games.

Fullscreen games stop rendering when they minimize.
 

chummy

Member
Other question, if it stop rendering why with game capture this problem dont happen, even alt+tabbing with a game capture and game in fullscreen things works fine when starting capturing again.

The problem with screen capture with fullscreen is not exactly it becoming black after alt+tabbings, but than if you alt+tab even after stopped recording and back to game after that screen capture dont work anymore creating black new recording while Game capture will make a new good video.

1st example Display capture: I launch game, dont start recording yet, then alt+tab and come back to game. Now i start recording and stop then there will be a totally black screen video.

2nd example Game capture: I do same thing launch game, dont start recording, alt+tab then come back to game. Now i start recording and stop, i go check recorded video and its pretty fine.
 
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