OBS / DayZ

[Apache]

Hi, the past couple weeks I've been trying to get OBS set up so I can record in-game. I followed some tutorials on how to set it up to record, and got it working... kindof. I tested it out on War Thunder and it works great, records just fine. But as soon as I try to record DayZ all I get is a black screen and the in-game sounds. How do I fix this to where it'll actually record the game? Thanks in advance

[Guest]

Try ticking the box that says anti-cheat something something? That's usually the fix for it most of the time. If it's not that, i'm not sure.

[DerrickStorm]

Lack of Anti-cheat compability usually makes the screen goes black. Do you have it checked?

Post 1, "Step 2 pic 3" in this thread http://www.dayzrp.com/t-How-to-record-with-OBS-You-re-a-bandit-A-victim-Have-a-video-for-a-report

[Emerald Knight]

The problem is the anti-cheat like Natuk said. Once you've clicked that on you shouldn't have any problems

[Chilli Musk]

http://www.dayzrp.com/t-streams-are-broken-at-the-moment

[Manic]

If it's not the anti-cheat it may be if the game is in full screen. For some reason with my OBS I have to play DayZ in window mode in order for it to pick up the game. Otherwise it is just a black screen.

[Pussy]

Also! Make sure you switch the games in the game capture properties. If it is still trying to pick up War Thunder it won't work when you're trying to capture DayZ. Other than that make sure the anti-cheat is on.

Any of the suggestions on this thread help you out? Or are we all wrong?  

[Dustin]

Apache, if you want I can walk you threw it on TS?

[Mathematics]

Quick-tip from my phone: Set up multiple Game Captures in OBS. For DayZ, enable anti-cheat hooking. Basically, what's been said.

[Yoshi]

You should have the game running in windowed mode for best results. Note that there is no 'maximize' function on the windowed version of DayZ, and you will have to manually click and drag the corners to fit your entire screen or area you desire. Once you ensure the game is running in the title screen, minimize and switch to OBS, where you can right click on the 'source' area of the OBS program and select to Add->Window Capture. Enter a name for it, such as 'DayZRP', and click 'OK'.

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Now, you can choose to select which window you would like to capture from. Select the one that shows DayZ "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DayZ\DayZ.exe" or something similar, depending on which version of windows you are running and what your installation location is.

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Tick the bubble just below that drop bow which says 'Inner Window". Doing this will allow you to edit the area inside the window which you would like to capture, which can be done by ticking the 'Sub Region' box, and clicking 'Select Region', in case you want to block out your hot bar (which isn't so much of a problem since you can always use the '~/`' key in game to manually remove your hot bar from the screen. It will, however, typically pop back up on it's own every time you hit tab, with the current (unsure about the new one) UI.

(Don't pay specific attention to my resolution under Sub Region, as your screen resolution may be different)

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Then, skip everything and go to the bottom left corner of this window and click on 'Set Base Resolution'. From there, I recommend selecting the resolution of your window (which would be the resolution of your screen, if your enlarge the window to the max area available), to ensure that the edited inner window area is fully captured, which would otherwise result in the program trimming your recording area to a smaller, or larger resolution, depending on the offset.

Once you are done, click 'OK', and ensure that the only source ticked is the one you've just created.

If you would like further assistance setting up OBS, please feel free to PM me, find me in TS (As DustinRay has offered), or ask about it here. This should work for you, as I experienced the same issue when I setup my OBS program to record DayZ the first time I tried using it.

[Saradomin]

1. Make sure OBS is run as admin. (and steam + dayz too just for the secureties)

2. Make sure, as stated above, that the anti-cheat thing is on.

3. Try running DayZ in windowed mode, a quick google search will help you with windowed-fullscreenborderless

[Apache]

I followed what ya'll told me and got it to work! Thanks everyone who helped

this can be /solved

[dom]

Glad your issue is fixed Apache.

/Solved