Question / Help Unable to stream Earth 2150?

[Evulant]

Hello everyone,

first I want to say that Studio looks amazing. Already liked Classic, and Studio clearly is an improvement.

I've checked already if there was anyone else having a similar problem, but I couldn't find anything and decided I'd ask.

So there's this one game, Earth 2150 (as well as Lost Souls, haven't tried Escape From The Blue Planet (EFTBP) yet), came out in 1999/2000. I simply can't stream it with Studio. Somehow, Studio just can't detect it as a fullscreen application. It works fine with classic, but that's only because Classic has that feature where you can set up a hotkey / hotkey combination in game recording sources and press it while in an application to start streaming it while Studio (for some reason?) no longer has such a feature.
Also worth mentioning is that this game only works with 4:3 resolutions. While this game actually also supports resolutions in a different format than 4:3 (you can select others in the setup), it will just refuse to work with anything else and crash once you open a menu while in a match.

Studio has no problems detecting any other game however; it's just this one that doesn't want to (didn't try many other games yet, but if this one doesn't work, there might be other games, specifically older ones, which might not work either).

Some system info:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
Native Resolution 1920x1080
If you need more, let me know.

Thanks in advance.

 

[H4ndy]

Please attach a log with a streaming/recording attempt of the game.
Also the hotkey for game capture will be added in the next Studio release (it's already been implemented).

 

[Evulant]

There you go. I hope this is correct.
Tried usign the ''capture any fullscreen application'' option and the option to select a window in the game capture source (although I'm not sure if fullscreen can be considered as a window).

 

[H4ndy]

OK, OBS tries to hook the game, but seems to fail. Maybe OBS does not support DirectX 6 (not sure tho).
You can try to switch the game to OpenGL rendering or force window mode and then use Window Capture.
And by the way, you can use 16:10 resolutions with the game to at least have some sort of widescreen.

Here are some ways to modify the game:
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Earth_2150#Issues_fixed