Question / Help Window Capture Frozen Screen

[Dellimint]

Window Capture used to work for me just fine until a few months ago, certain games such as CS:GO and Stepmania however don't work with it at all. Whatever is currently displayed on the monitor is what the capture is frozen on. Game Capture doesn't exactly work for me, as it causes massive frame spikes and drops which also wasn't always a problem.

Yes I do have Windows 10, and no I don't have the Creator update.

Log: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/b78a33f114efb04f8b7f98f1357969c7

 

[Harold]

Window capture is less efficient than game capture, and you can't capture fullscreen games with window capture.

 

[Dellimint]

I'm not running the game in full-screen, it's windowed. And game capture hasn't been more efficient for me either, as it causes frame drops even though my computer is more than capable of handling it.

 

[Harold]

Post a log from when you were using game capture then.

 

[Dellimint]

With game capture: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6c9769bf155f297d16f0406ea9bd1268

 

[Harold]

Run obs as admin then turn off multi-adapter compatibility hooking.

 

[Dellimint]

Did that, no improvements. Tried Game Capture with Borderlands 2, still getting frame drops in-game even with lower settings which shouldn't be happening which is why I've been using Window Capture more often. Even then however, Window Capture has been finicky.

Log: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/713861fdda6c432bbf2b6588d2c11f84

Anyone have any suggestions or is there just something wrong with OBS lately?

 

[Dellimint]

bump

 

[Harold]

and no I don't have the Creator update.

Actually you do.

03:23:22.376: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 15063 (revision: 296; 64-bit)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_version_history#Version_1703_.28Creators_Update.29

 

[Dellimint]

Obviously at the time I posted the thread I didn't have the Creator's Update...? I updated a little bit before posting that log.

Tried StepMania again with the 18.0.2 OBS update and with the program run as admin w/ multi-adapter compatibility turned off and was getting frame drops into ~50s. Also had plenty of frame spikes in-game which made it unplayable, even though the FPS counter was displaying that it was in the high 100s. After shutting off OBS, the in-game frame spikes completely vanished and the game was running perfect.

Log: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/12aac7ac3a6139403c0f91a025f55879

 

[TharosTheDragon]

There was a bug reported for OBS Classic where window capture would freeze, and it still occurs in OBS Studio. I finally figured out that I have to detach my second monitor based on a post in the thread: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/obs-window-capture-frozen-on-some-applications.15927/

This suggests a way to repro the issue. Attach a second monitor and have your browser window "straddle" the two screens. I just have a full screen Chrome window on one screen and apparently that counts as straddling.

Please fix this bug