New to Livestreaming

TheToxicgamer97 · March 22, 2014

Hello, I hope to begin livestreaming sometime in the next week or so. I have two monitors, and I want to be able to monitor the stream on one screen, while actually playing on another. The problem is, with Civilzation V among many other games, the second monitor is rendered as black when in fullscreen mode. If anyone knows ways to get around this please help. Thanks!

xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt · March 22, 2014

Play in windowed mode

dragosudeki · March 22, 2014

You can do windowed borderless mode

Elven · March 22, 2014

@TheToxicgamer97

The best way to do it. Is to play in windowed mode, and screen capture the game window. That way you got the game on one screen and the chat on another.

LogicalDrm · March 23, 2014

The screen being black is actually dx problem in game. But yeah, windowed mode fixes that.

Blecter · March 23, 2014

Hello, I hope to begin livestreaming sometime in the next week or so. I have two monitors, and I want to be able to monitor the stream on one screen, while actually playing on another. The problem is, with Civilzation V among many other games, the second monitor is rendered as black when in fullscreen mode. If anyone knows ways to get around this please help. Thanks!

What Windows are you running? If it's Windows 7 then change your desktop theme to Windows 7 Basic before playing. It's a Win/DX problem as mentioned. I had the same issue with my secondary screen occasionally blacking out (I use it to monitor GPU usage/temps/etc) when running an Aero theme. Change it to basic and the issue goes away all together.