What if INTEL HD Graphics is not on my PC?

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danCER

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Hello
I have been following all the suggestions to get the Display Capture blank screen fixed.
In my older PC and my laptop they have no problem using the Display Capture--it shows behind the infinity screens when opening OBS. These 2 pcs have both NVIDIA and Intel HD Graphics in Device Manager/Display Adapters.

However, my newest Desktop PC, Cyberpowerpc Extreme Gaming only has the NVIDIA GPU under Display Adapters. I tried going to Graphics Settings and adding OBS Studio then choosing the graphics but only NVIDIA is listed --no Intel HD Graphics.

I even downloaded the Intel Driver & Support Assistant and it did not detect an Intel graphics, but it did the NVIDIA.

The thing is even though I can't see the display capture(the display I will be capturing) once I start recording in OBS and select the display 0r screen what have you, OBS successful records the display. Without seeing a preview of the Display Capture on the opening page of OBS, I can not resize it easily to only record certain areas of the display.

Another thing when I first installed OBS on this new PC, the Display Capture did work properly--no blank screen. I assume my Intel Graphics existed. Why it disappeared is a mystery to me.
 
Post a logfile from a recording attempt, it'll give us insight into what's going on.

Make SURE that your monitor is plugged into the GPU card, NOT the motherboard. This is a semi-common problem, and will prevent display capture from working (and also, you won't be using your discrete GPU if the monitor is plugged into the mobo IO block, just the crappy iGPU).
 
I solved my problem.
Turns out that the Intel core i7-9700F processor does not have integrated or Intel HD graphics so, yes, my monitor was plugged into the NVIDIA card.
Here is what I discovered:

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danCER said:
I solved my problem.
Turns out that the Intel core i7-9700F processor does not have integrated or Intel HD graphics so, yes, my monitor was plugged into the NVIDIA card.
Here is what I discovered:

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for the most part youll want to use game capture anyway, but whats funny is that video you just linked - telling people how to fix a black / blank screen never shows a blank/black screen - it shows it working correctly the entire time LOL

Its capturing the OBS studio window because thats the window you have open. and its the entire screen. A rule of thumb is, if you can see the windows taskbar in the preview then its working correctly. - same with the infinity effect.

As a side note, dragging the borders is for cropping the window, so theres nothing to display behind it. This is one of the reasons youll want multiple monitors if there is a reason you actually need to use display capture as none of these things occur if OBS is on a separate monitor from the one your capturing

but if you only have a single monitor, just click record and then minimize the OBS window entirely so you dont have the infinity effect in the recording. And then open it back up and click stop - and you will have a perfect recording with no OBS window in it :) hope this helps.
 
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iConnorN said:
for the most part youll want to use game capture anyway, but whats funny is that video you just linked - telling people how to fix a black / blank screen never shows a blank/black screen - it shows it working correctly the entire time LOL

Its capturing the OBS studio window because thats the window you have open. and its the entire screen. A rule of thumb is, if you can see the windows taskbar in the preview then its working correctly. - same with the infinity effect.

As a side note, dragging the borders is for cropping the window, so theres nothing to display behind it. This is one of the reasons youll want multiple monitors if there is a reason you actually need to use display capture as none of these things occur if OBS is on a separate monitor from the one your capturing

but if you only have a single monitor, just click record and then minimize the OBS window entirely so you dont have the infinity effect in the recording. And then open it back up and click stop - and you will have a perfect recording with no OBS window in it :) hope this helps.
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you totally misunderstood me. I even said in my original post that it recorded once I fully minimized OBS.
And there is a difference between fullscreen and minimized with display capture, because on fullscreen you can't see the screen display you want to record whereas on minimized you can see the display and adjust borders more easily. Since OBS was opening fullscreen I could not see the display preview. If I drag the borders when minimized THERE is something to display.
It's funny with all the youtube videos on display capture being black NO ONE said to just minmize the window.
 
danCER said:
on display capture being black NO ONE said to just minmize the window.
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Ive said this already but let me reiterate - your issue is NOT "display capture being black" it was not black. and was never black. Its showing whats on your screen - so of course your search for that is not going to show how to fix a problem you did not have.

and the reason they dont mention minimizing the window is because your search should have been OBS infinity mirror effect fix i assume? Its still slightly confusing what you mean - because when you say "obs opened in fullscreen" i think what you mean is maximized. And you cannot adjust the borders when OBS is minimized, that is impossible.

Here ill give a rundown real quick to make future computer and OBS troubleshooting a lot easier haha:

1) Click " view ->fullscreen interface " in the obs toolbar and you can see what fullscreen actually looks like, it has no title bar and no windows taskbar below it. Fullscreen is the entire monitor.

2) When it covers the full windowed portion of the screen, that is "maximized" and still shows the windows taskbar below the application you have open.

3) on that same note, In the video when you talk about "minimizing OBS" you actually are un-maximizing the window - or putting it into "windowed mode" where you can make adjustments to the capture and see the mirrored effect on only part of the screen

4) What "minimized" actually means is that the program is visually closed but running in the background - you will see just the applications icon on your taskbar and no trace of it on your screen even though it is still running. Essentially when you said you can make adjustments to the borders when the application is minimized, you cannot - thats impossible.

Anyway, thats where all the confusion came from with not understanding what was going on i think. But regardless, the issue was the infinity mirror effect and not a black screen issue because it was capturing correctly and you were cropping the sides of the preview when dragging them :)
 
I appreciate you trying to educate me but you still don't know what my problem was.
Obviously before when I opened OBS it MUST not have been MAXIMIZED so I could "see the display" behind the infinity screens and adjust the borders easily. However at some point OBS opened MAXIMIZED and I could not see the display beneath as before. I did not realize OBS had to be NOT MAXIMIZED in order to see what I had originally seen. So to me when I searched on youtube for "OBS display capture" a lot of folks were talking about the "Black screen" with display capture. I assumed my problem was what they were talking about. Since my other two PC with OBS opened NOT Maximized I thought they were running OBS correctly, Plus they each had an Intel and NVIDIA display adapters but my new PC only had the NVIDIA GPU. SO I thought I needed the INTEL but could not find it on my PC. I finally found out that my Intel core-I7 processor did not have integrated graphics.
Again I STUPIDLY did not know you had to NOT MAXIMIZED OBS in order to get the display to show up under the infinity screens. When MAXIMIZED I could not see my display so I thought it was blank or black like when I moved the Borders when MAXIMIZED.
When I discovered by NOT MAXIMIZING OBS I was back to what I was used to, I thought this was the "fix." BECAUSE IN ALL OF THE BEGINNER's guide no one pointed this out that you had to NOT MAXIMIZE in order to see display beneath INFINITY SCREENS.
I am sorry for the confusion and if this doesn't clear things up with you, THAT IS FINE.
I'm ready to move on, away from your snide remarks, haha
 
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