Question / Help Worrying install popup, window/gamecapture/monitor 2 nonfunctional.

[Stavica]

Hiya folks.

So OBS has been acting wonky, and I was curious about what'd happen if I gave it a re-install. An error came up that told me it couldn't "open a file for writing", that file being OBS\plugins\GraphicsCapture\GraphicsCaptureHook.dll and the options were abort/retry/ignore. Ignore and the program installs. Issue never came up before, and I was still having trouble with my other captures before that.

Any attempts to record my second monitor, window capture, or game capture, result in a black screen.

As it stands, I'm just doing this to record little things, not stream.

The github log for is here: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6e3d042f3bafad069a13

I've been able to make my monitor-2 work before, as well as game capture, but this is the first time I'd tried in a couple of weeks and I'm no longer able to. Not particularily sure what happened.

Out of curiosity, I decided to install OBS on my laptop. Installation went fine, without that error popup. Window and Game captures work. I then gave recording another attempt using purely default settings on my desktop, no change.

 

[Sapiens]

The error means that GraphicsCaptureHook.dll was already in use, either because you were running OBS, or the hook got "stuck" hooking a program, or your antivirus program started messing with it, etc. A simple reboot will usually fix it, if not disable your antivirus software and try again.

 

[Stavica]

I actually did attempt a reboot once the first error showed up, as a precaution.

I... I then tried to disable my antivirus software, and got the same result. This time I will do both-- disable antivirus, and then restart with it still disabled and try the install.

 

[Stavica]

Alrighty, it seems fixed now.

I deleted the one folder (with the graphicswhatever.dll in it) basically asap once the desktop showed up, reinstalled OBS with no hitches. Monitors were still funky, I had to end up tinkering around with it until it worked, and unfortunately I have no idea why it worked now compared to before tinkering with it because I didn't actually end up changing anything.

Game works, window as well, although every now and then I have to cancel preview and start it up again with any of these because it'd be this black screen that's kind of hard to find the reason for.