Civ Introductions Missing When Streaming with OBS & Cursor Missing When Streaming With Nvidia

[(Rúna)]

I thought I'd ask here as it is a specific problem I'm encountering with Civilization and there is a chance some of you know the cause.

When streaming (or recording) with OBS to Youtube, there are frequently missing the moments when you meet a foreign civ, and also when entering a the deal screen. I have no idea what is causing this, and googling yields lots of irrelevant results. IS it something in my settings i have no configured properly? I have never seen this with regular streamers like Potato McWhiskey or AlphaOmega, etc

Here is an example from a stream I did yesterday. Its a long one, but you can see near the beginning around the 5 minutes mark, when I meet Nubia and China, there is no intro video showing, but the voice over plays still. In the actual game, i see it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVeZHc55--M

And when I try with nVidia's Shield, I find the game stream has no mouse cursor visible! The only thing i could find in google about this was a suggestion to enable desktop recording in the privacy settings of Geforce Experience. It didn't work! All other results where years-old requests to hide the cursor.. the opposite of my problem!

Any suggestions to resolve either of these issues would be greatly appreciated!

I don't think it is a bandwidth problem, as I have a good connection and am able to stream at 1080p 60fps

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Are you playing in full screen or windowed mode? Whichever it is, perhaps try the other. My guess is windowed mode would work more reliably.

[(Rúna)]

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

Are you playing in full screen or windowed mode? Whichever it is, perhaps try the other. My guess is windowed mode would work more reliably.

Unfortunately, this did not resolve the problem in either OBS or the nVidia shield. I was running Borderless window though, for the record.

However, when making test recordings in Windowed, Bordered Window, and Fullscreen modes, it occurred to me that maybe the version of DX I was using could be a cause. I was using DirectX 12, so changed in it in the launcher to DirectX 11, and low and behold it fixed the issue in OBS!

Civ Meeting introduction Videos now show up in the recordings as they are in the game. So that's great.

Though that didn't the issue with nVidia Shield not showing the cursor, which I would probably prefer to use if It worked properly!

Thank's for your help anyway,, you may have not given the precise answer, but it did set me on a path to finding a fix. :)

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Glad you got it sorted!