Recording software records black screen

RoboTechnal · February 17, 2017

I really want to find out how to record my full-screened game (CSGO). I have used OBS, and Fraps. On my laptop, using OBS worked perfectly fine. Now, whenever I record my game in full screen, and I stop the recording, it plays a black screen, but the game sound works. My monitors resolution is 16:9 1920x1080 and my in-game resolution is 4:3 1400x1050. I've tried doing game capture and monitor capture, in which neither of them worked. Is it because my resolution in-game is different? Or is it because of the settings on the recording software.

demonix00 · February 17, 2017

If you're using plain OBS and not OBS studio then it is possible to end up with just audio recorded and not the video, so I would suggest using OBS studio with its game capture option (just make sure that record any full screen application is checked in settings for the game capture option) as well as configuring start and stop recording hot keys so you can do everything from within the game (you can do that with standard OBS, but there's always the chance of ending up with an audio only recording since configurations have to be set when the game is running).

RoboTechnal · February 18, 2017

32 minutes ago, demonix00 said:

If you're using plain OBS and not OBS studio then it is possible to end up with just audio recorded and not the video, so I would suggest using OBS studio with its game capture option (just make sure that record any full screen application is checked in settings for the game capture option) as well as configuring start and stop recording hot keys so you can do everything from within the game (you can do that with standard OBS, but there's always the chance of ending up with an audio only recording since configurations have to be set when the game is running).

I'm using both of them. (Not at the same time) it hasn't fixed anything. OBS studio does the same thing, but neither of them seem to want to work when I'm in game and i press the hotkey. The only thing that seemed to work was fraps, and it worked when I shut my computer down and restarted it, and the video was working.