Cant record (capture) Game

[Wygos]

Cant record with any software
W10 xbox bar
Nvidia capture
OBS
When recording i just get black screen WTF?

[13ushwacker]

Did you try the OBS forums? May have to try an option other than game capture w/in in OBS. I had one game in the past with this problem and I had to go in and use the selection window (red lines to select the screen area.) I just used that to select the entire screen and it started working. Don't know if it will work for ME tho. Most likely something to do with their game engine.

[Wygos]

Originally posted by 13ushwacker:

Did you try the OBS forums? May have to try an option other than game capture w/in in OBS. I had one game in the past with this problem and I had to go in and use the selection window (red lines to select the screen area.) I just used that to select the entire screen and it started working. Don't know if it will work for ME tho. Most likely something to do with their game engine.

Yeah i tried everything in OBS

[Wygos]

Even steam overlay doesnt work in this game. Steam FPS counter shows 1 FPS
Same for Nvidia overlay.

(every other steam game has no such problems)

[cuss]

BandiCam works but i 'think' the free version has a watermark, not sure. i have the steam overlay enabled and working and got rid of GForceExp (if applicable) long ago, if that helps.

[MAGs☢uilleᵗʷᶦᵗᶜʰ]

I make lives on the game, so currently it works.
Just try to capture the image in "window capture" and it will work.

If nothing changes, go to your backup folder
C: \ Users \ your speudo \ Saved Games \ metro exodus \ your folder with numbers

and in the text folder "User" , look for "r_fullscreen" and set it to "OFF", not to on.

It worked for me, besides removing the mouse accelerators "mouse_curve_coef 0" "mouse_curve_num 0" (it's horrible, on the game)

You can change the FOV to 50 to gain some fps and also remove shadows from textures (r_foliage_shadows 0).

It helped me a lot because some passages are not optimized at all. The v synch too BUT if necessary because artyom is too heavy at 60 FPS (v synch with a 144hz monitor or more on this game).

[13ushwacker]

I had forgot that trick, 'Mag', of changing the game's window settings, good point. I have had games, Far Cry I think, where the fullscreen took over the hardware so deeply the capture would not work. Games often run the video card at a machine level to get better performance. Sometimes that interferes with capture. So running in windowed, or borderless window - if the game supports it - will allow capture. Sometimes 'Game Cptr' will not work and one has to use window capture, full screen capture or select a portion of the screen to capture. In the latter case, as I said before, you just set the portion to the whole screen. You could also go to the developer's site and ask there if there is a forum. I am sure they want all the free advertising on YouTube they can get.

[cuss]

Originally posted by 13ushwacker:

I ".. where the fullscreen took over the hardware so deeply the capture would not work. Games often run the video card at a machine level to get better performance. Sometimes that interferes with capture..."

well said!
'.. whereas windowed for example returns machine control to the os and desktop allowing things like program capture to work'. it's easy to forget that the pc isn't a mystery, it's just a machine running on yes / no's with an os priority system. old builders know this and new ones should learn it: to separate, and see the distinction between machine, os & program / app.

[MAGs☢uilleᵗʷᶦᵗᶜʰ]

- r_fullscreen OFF (windowed) in "USER.TXT" and i use borderless gaming to arrive with a bordeless windows on all games to record + Window capture on obs

- V synch, if it's necessary (3/4 games) because, on Metro, 60 fps, it's too horrible for me. But, if you have a 144hz monitor like me, it's perfect with the vsynch because I exceed the 60 fps enough for the character to be fluid + manual modification to optimise the game.

Metro has always been too limited in terms of graphics options so you won't find a way to play in windowed or borderless without going through the game file and it's the same to optimize a maximum the game, it's annoying (fov, shadow etc)

[Wygos]

Originally posted by MagSouille:

I make lives on the game, so currently it works.
Just try to capture the image in "window capture" and it will work.

Its not.
like i said i never had any problem with any capture software on any steam game. And i still dont have with any steam game except this one. Its weird. Steam itself even dont show games FPS it shows 1 fps all the time.

[Wygos]

Originally posted by cuss:

it's easy to forget that the pc isn't a mystery, it's just a machine running on yes / no's

Seems like you not very familiar with pcs.
There are countless confirmed cases of PCs doing irational things. Not even talking about AI.
PCs are pretty sensitive and big systems and collect alot of interference from everything starting with manufacturers with both left hands and waste code copy pasting soft dev and going through dust power fluctuations and EM waves and ending at user itself that lead to some crazy ♥♥♥♥.

i myself had 1 pc returned to me 8 times by the client because it was loosing power. Every time he returned it to me it was working flawlessly in my hands for weeks on max loads. Every time i send it to him it would stop working within 1-3 days. I changed power supply motherboard, Made him buy UPS, eventually he moved to difrent country still same problem was happening. Last time i had his PC for 3 months and was using it as my game pc and not a single power loss. I made him come to my place and show me what he does. He run a video game it lost power withing like 3 min. I left that PC to myself and returned money. Never had shudown since been using for years.
I bought the guy brand laptop. Predator. guess what ? It started freezing up...he change that laptop 3 times now under warranty.... (Not repaired but changed) ... all 3 are freezing same way :)
Hes became my friend during this all nonsense. Now hes asking for me ti build another gaming pc :D I'm not gonna do it :D
p.s.
the guy said he had problems with smart electronic all his life. Tvs, phones and computers allways act out when hess close.