Bug Report Window capture won't detect executable with name starting with "time"

Kamin

Kamin

New Member
Hey guys,

It seems like OBS Game Capture and Window Capture function won't detect any executable with name starting with "time" eg. "timelie.exe"

I'm a Technical Artist from Urnique Studio. Recently, we've just launch a game called "Timelie" on Steam.
We've got many reports from streamers that OBS Game Capture and Window Capture function cannot detect our game.

After a lot of researches though the forums and also trial and error we found that by renaming our executable file to some other names
seems to make OBS detect our game again. eg.
  • Timelie.exe -> NOT detected
  • timelie.exe -> NOT detected
  • Time.exe -> NOT detected
  • Tim.exe -> detected
  • aTimelie.exe -> detected
  • TimesdfjghnlasdkjrhfdklsfjasldkfnASDf;lad.exe -> NOT detected
It seems to be the word "time" and it has to be at the beginning of file name.

I've also tested by renaming windows command promt "cmd.exe" to "time.exe", also not detected by Window capture.
Log file also doesn't show any of the "NOT detected" names above during the test.

Is file name really the problem?

Thank you.
 
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Fenrir

Fenrir

Forum Admin
The file name is the reason, yes. There's an exclusion list in place for internal microsoft exes that enumerate for window/game capture, and time is one of them. The list should be doing explicit matching, not string searching however, so this is an oversight on our end.
 
Fenrir

Fenrir

Forum Admin
This was fixed in OBS 26, if you are still having a similar issue, please open a new thread or jump on our Discord for someone to take a closer look, as it's likely something else at this point.
 
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