Question / Help Windows Graphics Capture also captures Mouse Pointer

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Jeff French

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It seems if you have a Windows 10 version that supports it (1903 or higher), the Windows Graphics Capture option will be the default.

If you have a single monitor system, this becomes a problem for a Windows Capture because the mouse cursor bleeds through the OSB Studio window, so it ends up being captured in the video. For example, I have a Firefox window opened full screen, OSB Studio is open on top of it ... full screen or not, the Mouse is still captured even when moving over the OSB Studio window.

The BitBlt option DOES NOT have this problem. So, other than using BitBlt as an alternative, the only other option I have found is to move the mouse off the screen (bottom right seems to work well) and setup shortcuts to start/stop recording and never move the mouse until stopping by pressing the start/stop recording shortcut.

You don't even have to be recording to see it.

On a multi-monitor system, this isn't a problem since the window being captured can be on a different monitor.

Jeff
 
This is a limitation of the Windows Graphics Capture, the option will be available in the 2003 Windows 10 update.
 
The BitBit capture (targeting Zoom's desktop client, as I've done for years) doesn't work for me after the update. I'm running OBS Studio on a fresh build of Win10 64-bit, so I'm puzzled why it's affecting me. Are there any prerequisites I may be missing to resolve this? @R1CH or anyone else know?

Currently using the Windows Graphics Capture method but the cursor is very intrusive in a 4-way podcast I'm hosting.

Thanks in advance for any help.

ZIM
 
It's definitely still a problem for me. I'm still on Windows 10 v1909 at this point (I don't do beta/unreleased versions, so if you are on Windows 10 v2003+ it may be fixed). If I use BitBlt, the mouse cursor doesn't bleed thru, if I use Windows Graphics Capture it still does.
 
Jeff French said:
It's definitely still a problem for me. I'm still on Windows 10 v1909 at this point (I don't do beta/unreleased versions, so if you are on Windows 10 v2003+ it may be fixed). If I use BitBlt, the mouse cursor doesn't bleed thru, if I use Windows Graphics Capture it still does.
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For me - on OBS - there's no remove cursor option for WGC. And the game doesn't work with Bitbit cause it's forza
 
The OP was about capturing a standard window (like a browser window, for example ... and even with browsers you very well may need to turn off Hardware Acceleration to get BitBlt to work). So, when using OBS for capturing a game (and / or any Hardware-Accelerated ... possibly even OpenGL- or DirectX-based applications ... which the Zoom client could very-well be) I can certainly see where BitBlt wouldn't work. And, it's definitely possible there wouldn't be any mouse cursor bleed through.

So, I guess what I'm saying is I don't believe any of our experiences with OBS are mutually exclusive.
 
This solution worked for me, hope it helps:

Hide cursor with Windows Graphics Capture method

I compiled libraries from official github to allow hiding the cursor using the Windows Graphics Capture method. You need to replace libobs-winrt.dll in bin folder. Do NOT forget to create a backup of libobs-winrt.dll. (For x64 is C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\64bit) 32 bits...
obsproject.com
 
R1CH said:
This is a limitation of the Windows Graphics Capture, the option will be available in the 2003 Windows 10 update.
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I'm assuming you meant Win10 2004 release (ie the new feature release that actually came out in May (vs April) 2020)?
I have a brand new PC, and updated to latest feature release. on Win10 v1709 on a engineering/workstation laptop (nVido P2000), using Automatic Windows capture, I had no issue with cursor staying hidden with Windowed PowerPoint capture. On new desktop, I'm constantly seeing cursor (single monitor PC). Please advise on new setting to keep cursor hidden (if it is actually working in this new feature release and not yet another Microsoft bug)
Thanks in advance
 
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