Question / Help Video freeze on focus switch

[Dogma]

I've been googling this for the past few days, this problem seems new I never had issue with it a year ago.

When starting up OBS (admin mode) and starting Dark Souls 3 (windowed mode), the game capture works perfect, the second I switch focus off DS3, the game capture freezes on last thing shown and never resumes movement when DS3 comes back into focus. The only way I can fix this or work around it, is restart OBS and the game and never click off the game, always leaving it in focus.

This is a pain, even an accidental switch will screw up my stream. Window capture just leaves a white screen the entire time, never shows the game once even with focus on DS3, so not sure what to do there.

People on steam forums have suggested turning off steam overlay, which has never been on. I've even seen suggestions for turning off anti-cheat, which I'm not sure you can in DS3 or if it even has it, but ultimately is an option I would like to avoid...

The image I uploaded show's what is happening, the game has progressed but the 'stream' has frozen in OBS

Sorry if this has been answered before but as I stated I've been searching for an answer and I can't find one that fixes my particular problem...

Edit: The funny part is, the "capture cursor" never seems to stop working just the game capture itself.

Current log file:

00:58:20.530: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz
00:58:20.530: CPU Speed: 3498MHz
00:58:20.530: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 8
00:58:20.530: Physical Memory: 16322MB Total, 10780MB Free
00:58:20.530: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 15063 (revision: 296; 64-bit)
00:58:20.530: Running as administrator: true
00:58:20.530: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
00:58:20.531: Portable mode: false
00:58:20.542: OBS 20.0.1 (64bit, windows)
00:58:20.542: ---------------------------------
00:58:20.542: ---------------------------------
00:58:20.542: audio settings reset:
00:58:20.542: samples per sec: 44100
00:58:20.542: speakers: 2
00:58:20.545: ---------------------------------
00:58:20.545: Initializing D3D11...
00:58:20.545: Available Video Adapters:
00:58:20.547: Adapter 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
00:58:20.547: Dedicated VRAM: 2115698688
00:58:20.547: Shared VRAM: 4262492160
00:58:20.547: output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true
00:58:20.547: output 2: pos={315, 1080}, size={1600, 900}, attached=true
00:58:20.547: output 3: pos={0, -1920}, size={1080, 1920}, attached=true
00:58:20.550: Loading up D3D11 on adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (0)
00:58:21.104: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: 45056
00:58:21.736: ---------------------------------
00:58:21.736: video settings reset:
00:58:21.736: base resolution: 1920x1080
00:58:21.736: output resolution: 1280x720
00:58:21.736: downscale filter: Bicubic
00:58:21.736: fps: 30/1
00:58:21.736: format: NV12
00:58:21.737: Audio monitoring device:
00:58:21.737: name: Speakers (Logitech G930 Gaming Headset)
00:58:21.737: id: {0.0.0.00000000}.{d7e450d0-3ace-46fc-b649-54fe0bf77a7f}
00:58:21.737: ---------------------------------
00:58:21.738: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/chrome_elf.dll' not found, loading of module failed
00:58:21.739: [CoreAudio encoder]: CoreAudio AAC encoder not installed on the system or couldn't be loaded
00:58:21.740: [AMF] Encountered Exception during AMF initialization: Unable to load 'amfrt64.dll', error code 126.
00:58:21.740: Failed to initialize module 'enc-amf.dll'
00:58:21.745: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libcef.dll' not found, loading of module failed
00:58:21.745: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libEGL.dll' not found, loading of module failed
00:58:21.745: Required module function 'obs_module_load' in module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libGLESv2.dll' not found, loading of module failed
00:58:21.746: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'obs-browser.dll'
00:58:21.746: [browser_source: 'Version: 1.29.0']
00:58:21.748: NVENC supported
00:58:21.841: VLC found, VLC video source enabled
00:58:21.845: No blackmagic support
00:58:21.895: ---------------------------------
00:58:21.895: Loaded Modules:
00:58:21.895: win-wasapi.dll
00:58:21.895: win-mf.dll
00:58:21.895: win-dshow.dll
00:58:21.895: win-decklink.dll
00:58:21.895: win-capture.dll
00:58:21.895: vlc-video.dll
00:58:21.895: text-freetype2.dll
00:58:21.895: rtmp-services.dll
00:58:21.895: obs-x264.dll
00:58:21.895: obs-vst.dll
00:58:21.895: obs-transitions.dll
00:58:21.895: obs-text.dll
00:58:21.895: obs-qsv11.dll
00:58:21.895: obs-outputs.dll
00:58:21.895: obs-filters.dll
00:58:21.895: obs-ffmpeg.dll
00:58:21.895: obs-browser.dll
00:58:21.895: image-source.dll
00:58:21.895: frontend-tools.dll
00:58:21.895: enc-amf.dll
00:58:21.895: coreaudio-encoder.dll
00:58:21.895: ---------------------------------
00:58:21.895: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
00:58:21.898: All scene data cleared
00:58:21.898: ------------------------------------------------
00:58:21.952: WASAPI: Device 'Speakers (Logitech G930 Gaming Headset)' initialized
00:58:21.960: WASAPI: Device 'Microphone (Logitech G930 Gaming Headset)' initialized
00:58:21.986: Switched to scene 'Playing'
00:58:21.987: ------------------------------------------------
00:58:21.987: Loaded scenes:
00:58:21.987: - scene 'Playing':
00:58:21.987: - source: 'AlertBox' (browser_source)
00:58:21.987: ------------------------------------------------
00:58:22.013: adding 46 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 46 milliseconds
00:58:34.794: User added source 'Game Capture' (game_capture) to scene 'Playing'
00:59:10.071: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] attempting to hook process: DarkSoulsIII.exe
00:59:10.073: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] using helper (compatibility hook)
00:59:10.074: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] hook not loaded yet, retrying..
00:59:12.105: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] attempting to hook process: DarkSoulsIII.exe
00:59:12.116: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] d3d11 shared texture capture successful
00:59:12.138: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] shared texture capture successful
01:02:26.890: adding 23 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 69 milliseconds

 

[Dogma]

bump, still screwed...

 

[Dogma]

Come on... There has to be a fix for this... Or if there isn't just please acknowledge there isn't? Anyone?

 

[Dogma]

Star date.. 3

 

[Dogma]

New week, last bump before I give up. Not the happiest camper....

 

[Suslik V]

You are first man who are playing Dark Souls and give up...

 

[Dogma]

I don't give up on dark souls lol. Giving up on devs actually replying to me, or anyone for that matter. Then again, I got you, you're my only friend.

 

[Suslik V]

Maybe 'Window Capture' source will work better?

 

[Dogma]

Window capture the screen is just white, never shows the game at all. I finally went back to full screen and just did display capture which works, but I have to watch the twitch chat from my phone which is inconvenient and terrible for my battery...

I didn't have this issue when DS3 first launched though, so I'm not sure what changed from then till now. Tried reinstalling OBS studio from scratch last night too and that didn't fix anything either.

 

[Suslik V]

Game running at dx12?

 

[Dogma]

I'm not even sure DS3 supports DX12? All info I can find is stuff from 2016 of most people saying what amounts to "Don't hold your breath" Know how I can check?

 

[Suslik V]

Oh, it still doesn't... There were only some additional content.

No matter. There is log on the forum where the game was successfully captured by game capture (maybe just fullscreen and no tabbing) but slowest method (Multi-adapter compatibility) was chosen that was designed for sli/crossfire configs. You can try it too.

 

[Dogma]

Yeah the multi-adapter check box didn't make a difference either, I didn't try it with full screen on game capture though, that ultimately doesn't get me past the point of not having a second monitor currently. Display capture is working for now, and as I said it's a hassle, but meh if I got no other option.

I'm wondering if this is just a thing for DS3 or not, might try a few other games out tonight to see, I mean if it is just DS3 I guess it's a small inconvenience. Wish I could get a more definitive answer, but looks like I won't be.

Thanks for your attempts, suslik.