Question / Help War of the Vikings - Can't get 'Game Capture'

[Roger Hansen]

I've been streaming various games of Steam, e.g. Space Engineers.

War of the Vikings was recently released on Steam and I downloaded and wanted to stream the game.

I use the "Game Capture" and I find '[wotv]: War of the Vikings" and add that as the application to capture.

However, all I get is a black screen in OBS on the Stream Preview.

1. I tried to exit War of the Vikings after setting up OBS, then restart the game. Still black screen on the preview.
2. Next I set the War of the Vikings .exe files to be "Run as administrator" when launched... still black screen in OBS preview.
3. I tried to launch Space Engineers again to verify that OBS is at least running correctly. Space Engineers streams just fine. Both Space Engineers and War of the Vikings are launched through Steam client so the steam overlay should not be an issue since it works with Space Engineers.
4. Next I tried to run War of the Vikings in windowed mode, and I set the capture to Window rather than Game capture. It then captures the windowed game just fine and streams it as it should.

From what I can tell there must be an issue with OBS and/or War of the Vikings since I can't seem to capture the game / application correctly and just get black screen, even though the game capture is working fine with all the other games I am streaming.

 

[Lain]

You said you ran the game as administrator, but did you try that with OBS itself? Also, if possible, please give me a log file from this.

 

[Roger Hansen]

Yes, I always run OBS as administrator.

I included the latest log file I could find.

Been playing War of the Vikings while keeping the preview in OBS active. But again, only black screen and nothing showing when running the Game Capture.

What I can read from the log it says:

Using graphics capture
Warning -- GraphicsCaptureSource::BeginScene: Failed to inject library, GetLastError = 5

But no idea what this means.

 

[Roger Hansen]

I opened a thread on the War of the Vikings forum as well to raise some awareness around this, and seems I got a reply there that addresses this issue.

Link to thread for reference: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?770622-Streaming-game-through-OBS

 

[Lain]

Try the 'anti-cheat compatibility' feature in 0.62b test 1.

 

[Roger Hansen]

Try the 'anti-cheat compatibility' feature in 0.62b test 1.

Just tried the anti-cheat compatibility, but still get no game capture.

Ran OBS (64 bit version) as administrator.
Enabled anti-cheat compatibility
No game capture.

Ran OBS (32 bit version) as administrator.
Anti-cheat was already ticked off (probably from running the other version first)
No game capture.

Here is link to the latest log file.

https://gist.github.com/6122726a1ca91a2db219

 

[Roger Hansen]

Any update on this?

Tried to run the latest versions of OBS with the anti-cheat feature enabled, but still only returning black screen...

 

[Lain]

Not sure about war of the vikings, but other people have been telling me it's been working with other EAC games. Make sure you have your anti-cheat program updated if possible.

 

[Roger Hansen]

Not sure what anti-cheat program that would be... War of the Vikings is run through Steam and there is no anti-cheat software downloaded in addition to installing the game itself.........

 

[Lain]

Oh, hm.. not entirely sure unfortunately. It's kind of a two-way street thing at the moment, I implemented the technique at the advice of anti-cheat writers, I don't actually always know what's happening on their end though, so I'm not entirely sure what to do.