Question / Help Windows 7 Aero with window capture

[Lambdadelta]

The problem: OBS's window capture doesnt work with most games in Windows 7, disabling Aero fixes this issue but it also brings about the annoyance of having other windows overlap the one recorded and this also causes big privacy concerns. I dont think hardware acceleration is the issue, window capture does work with browsers after disabling that, but i didnt have a problem with them, only with certain games or even videos.

Backstory: I have used Windows 10 for a while and this was never an issue before with my same setup, game capture doesnt work very well with certain games so i always had window capture as the one option to fall back on in such cases. I have recently changed back to windows 7 due to reasons and now this problem has surged and is being quite annoying to pin point the reason for it.

Things i have tried: Running OBS as admin (nothing changed), reading forums for the same issue (i saw that this issue was mentioned before and the recommended thing to do was access the nvidia control panel which doesnt work for me since i have an amd card), i tried activating multi-adapter compatibility but it never did anything either.

My setup: I run a double monitor setup with my secondary monitor connected to the integrated graphics, i have no reason to believe this is the problem, but just in case i will point this out.

Affected apps: Video players, both vlc and mpc hc cannot be window captured, rpg maker games, other games like Celeste or basically any game i have tried, the best i can get in some games is that the capture gets frozen in a single image of the game like in the second picture. All of them work well with Aero off, but not with it on. This was not a problem when i had Windows 10.

The log from these captures was included too. I will appreciate any help, i have been trying to solve this issue for a while now.

Spoiler: Log file

12:46:31.475: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3450 CPU @ 3.10GHz
12:46:31.475: CPU Speed: 3100MHz
12:46:31.475: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 4
12:46:31.475: Physical Memory: 8077MB Total, 5271MB Free
12:46:31.475: Windows Version: 6.1 Build 7601 (revision: 24511; 64-bit)
12:46:31.475: Running as administrator: true
12:46:31.475: Aero is Enabled
12:46:31.475: Current Date/Time: 2019-09-08, 12:46:31
12:46:31.475: Browser Hardware Acceleration: false
12:46:31.475: Portable mode: false
12:46:31.601: OBS 23.2.1 (64-bit, windows)
12:46:31.601: ---------------------------------
12:46:31.602: ---------------------------------
12:46:31.602: audio settings reset:
12:46:31.602: samples per sec: 48000
12:46:31.602: speakers: 2
12:46:31.603: ---------------------------------
12:46:31.603: Initializing D3D11...
12:46:31.603: Available Video Adapters:
12:46:31.605: Adapter 0: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
12:46:31.605: Dedicated VRAM: 2123567104
12:46:31.605: Shared VRAM: 3966701568
12:46:31.605: output 0: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true
12:46:31.605: Adapter 1: Intel(R) HD Graphics
12:46:31.605: Dedicated VRAM: 67108864
12:46:31.605: Shared VRAM: 1711276032
12:46:31.605: output 0: pos={1920, 0}, size={1280, 1024}, attached=true
12:46:31.608: Loading up D3D11 on adapter AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (0)
12:46:31.613: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: 45056
12:46:32.481: ---------------------------------
12:46:32.481: video settings reset:
12:46:32.481: base resolution: 1920x1080
12:46:32.481: output resolution: 1920x1080
12:46:32.481: downscale filter: Bicubic
12:46:32.481: fps: 30/1
12:46:32.481: format: NV12
12:46:32.481: YUV mode: 601/Partial
12:46:32.481: NV12 texture support not available
12:46:32.482: Audio monitoring device:
12:46:32.482: name: Default
12:46:32.482: id: default
12:46:32.482: ---------------------------------
12:46:32.484: [CoreAudio encoder]: CoreAudio AAC encoder not installed on the system or couldn't be loaded
12:46:32.484: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-ouput-ui.dll'
12:46:32.600: [AMF] Version 2.4.2 loaded (Compiled: 1.4.7.0, Runtime: 1.4.14.0, Library: 1;4;14;0;19.30.01.50;201909031355;CL#1992700).
12:46:32.647: [AMF] [Capability Manager] Testing Direct3D 9 Adapter 'AMD Radeon R9 200 Series [\\.\DISPLAY1] (VEN_1002/DEV_6810/SUB_e271174b/REV_0000)':
12:46:32.647: H264/AVC: Supported
12:46:32.647: H265/HEVC: Not Supported
12:46:32.647:
12:46:32.647: [AMF] [H265/HEVC] Not supported by any GPU, disabling...
12:46:32.657: Module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libEGL.dll' not loaded
12:46:32.658: [obs-browser]: Version 2.4.0
12:46:32.722: Couldn't find VLC installation, VLC video source disabled
12:46:32.724: No blackmagic support
12:46:32.727: ---------------------------------
12:46:32.727: Loaded Modules:
12:46:32.727: win-wasapi.dll
12:46:32.727: win-mf.dll
12:46:32.727: win-dshow.dll
12:46:32.727: win-decklink.dll
12:46:32.727: win-capture.dll
12:46:32.727: vlc-video.dll
12:46:32.727: text-freetype2.dll
12:46:32.727: rtmp-services.dll
12:46:32.727: obs-x264.dll
12:46:32.727: obs-vst.dll
12:46:32.727: obs-transitions.dll
12:46:32.727: obs-text.dll
12:46:32.727: obs-qsv11.dll
12:46:32.727: obs-outputs.dll
12:46:32.727: obs-filters.dll
12:46:32.727: obs-ffmpeg.dll
12:46:32.727: obs-browser.dll
12:46:32.727: image-source.dll
12:46:32.727: frontend-tools.dll
12:46:32.727: enc-amf.dll
12:46:32.727: decklink-ouput-ui.dll
12:46:32.727: coreaudio-encoder.dll
12:46:32.727: ---------------------------------
12:46:32.727: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
12:46:32.728: All scene data cleared
12:46:32.728: ------------------------------------------------
12:46:32.766: WASAPI: Device 'Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)' initialized
12:46:32.766: [window-capture: 'Window Capture'] update settings:
12:46:32.766: executable: DualMonitor.exe
12:46:32.779: WASAPI: Device 'Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)' initialized
12:46:32.779: Switched to scene 'Game Generic'
12:46:32.779: ------------------------------------------------
12:46:32.779: Loaded scenes:
12:46:32.779: - scene 'Game Generic':
12:46:32.779: - source: 'Audio Output Capture' (wasapi_output_capture)
12:46:32.779: - source: 'Window Capture' (window_capture)
12:46:32.779: ------------------------------------------------
12:46:32.799: adding 21 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 21 milliseconds (source: Desktop Audio)
12:46:32.799:
12:47:03.816: [window-capture: 'Window Capture'] update settings:
12:47:03.816: executable: vlc.exe
12:47:29.919: adding 21 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 42 milliseconds (source: Audio Output Capture)
12:47:29.919:
12:47:54.333: adding 42 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 85 milliseconds (source: Desktop Audio)
12:47:54.333:
12:48:05.967: adding 42 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 128 milliseconds (source: Desktop Audio)
12:48:05.967:
12:56:26.907: [window-capture: 'Window Capture'] update settings:
12:56:26.907: executable: DualMonitor.exe
12:56:30.475: [window-capture: 'Window Capture'] update settings:
12:56:30.475: executable: Game.exe
12:57:08.108: [window-capture: 'Window Capture'] update settings:
12:57:08.108: executable: DualMonitor.exe
12:57:11.208: [window-capture: 'Window Capture'] update settings:
12:57:11.208: executable: Game.exe
12:57:15.441: [window-capture: 'Window Capture'] update settings:
12:57:15.441: executable: Game.exe
12:58:31.342: [window-capture: 'Window Capture'] update settings:
12:58:31.342: executable: DualMonitor.exe
12:58:35.443: [window-capture: 'Window Capture'] update settings:
12:58:35.443: executable: Saya_Steam.exe
13:00:39.512: [window-capture: 'Window Capture'] update settings:
13:00:39.512: executable: DualMonitor.exe
13:00:41.811: [window-capture: 'Window Capture'] update settings:
13:00:41.811: executable: Game.exe

 

[Tarumes]

For RPG-Maker MV & Browser i can help you
the game.exe is in real NWJS known as node-webkit
a chrome-browser with no menubars etc...
and if you want capture a browserwindow so you have disable gpu acceleration
so you have to edit the package.json file and
add
"chromium-args" : "--disable-gpu",

like here

Spoiler: package.json

{
    "name": "",
    "main": "index.html",
    "js-flags": "--expose-gc",
    "chromium-args" : "--disable-gpu",
    "window": {
        "title": "",
        "toolbar": false,
        "width": 816,
        "height": 624,
        "icon": "icon/icon.png"
    }
}