There is also some mention of potential drawbacks of each, such as compatibility with Punkbuster.įinally, as this PC Gamer article points out, be sure that your source content is not minimized when you experience 'black screen'. If you follow that link there are a number of applications listed, including Shift which was mentioned in comments. This would accomplish many of the goals you are shooting for, and would get around the OBS limitation. Others in the thread suggest borderless fullscreen windowed mode as a workaround.
Per Jim (listed as a Dev) on the Sourceforge Open Broadcaster Software Forum, OBS does not support fullscreen mode, but it is a planned future improvement.Ĭurrently, fullscreen games can't be captured via software means without using DXTory or something.įortunately, I do have plans in the future to add fullscreen game capture, but because it's a rather difficult problem to tackle and will require a lot of time and focus, it's a bit lower on the priority list and won't be in for quite some time.ĭXtory looks to be a non-free screen scraping application, and I'll go out on a limb and assume that's not what your looking for, as it would be a pretty advanced technical solution.
