Recording MonoGame applications with OBS

Windows
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I am trying to record a MonoGame application on Windows using OBS. If I use Game Capture as source it does not work for some reason. Window Capture does work but I assume using Game Capture would have some advantages maybe? Also does anybody use OBS and can say if Game Capture does work for you?

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Are you still using Windows 7?

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Oh, or are you trying to do a live broadcast?

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Windows 11 only just recording

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I realised you might be trying to do a live broadcast… not just a capture?

Which is it?

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WINKEY + G

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Oh cool, what is this haha

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Built-in capture, go to settings to set 60FPS and other settings for audio capture etc…

Like so:

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image792Ă—692 29.1 KB

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image785Ă—291 30.7 KB

I tend to use 192kbps

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I did a quick test and did set recording quality to high as suggested. But it seems that the quality is not optimal, maybe my machine is not good enough. With OBS I get recordings of size 10x or something but visual quality is pretty good. I am uploading the OBS recording at the moment to YouTube now.

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Trying hard to not laugh, what are your system specs?

CPU
GPU
MOBO
RAM
HDD/SSD
PSU
GPU

What resolution did you try capturing in?

Also, is it a DX or OGL game?

I capture pretty decently in UWPDX…

That was the 50,000 paper planes test I think

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Though if there is a lot going on, such as in my earlier videos, yeah it does suck…

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Side note on your showcase post, YouTube compression is a real pain… you got to work around it… a good solution is uploading in 4K…

Also, sweet video!

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Sorry I have to come back later and check for everything have to go AFK for now

It is particles…

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Cool, try 30fps btw as it states it could help with clarity…

Also just replying so you can post a reply…

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I noticed Game bar recording worked on windows 10.only.if you wrap and exe as a wap or a.make a .UWP, so it’s a windows app. But on win 11 i can record a windows console exe with it. But must set the font scale to 100. (on 4k we usually scale is up) or it’s records the wrong size. Also after u upload to YouTube it looks terrible at first…then check back later it might have been compressed and available in higher res.

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Here are some screenshots where the same application is captured only when using Ă’BS window capture not when using game capture.

Window Capture

Window-Capture
Window-Capture1920Ă—1033 68.9 KB

Game Capture (not working)

Game-Capture
Game-Capture1920Ă—1033 60.1 KB

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I tested out OBS Studio using a Game Capture source and was able to record a MonoGame application without any issues. Have you tried, when editing the Game Capture source, using “Capture specific window” mode and then selecting your application from the list?

Edit: Ah, I see that your screenshot shows you have. Never mind. I believe the project I tried was a DirectX project, I’ll give a DesktopGL project a try and see if it still works.

Edit again: I tried a project that I knew for sure was a DesktopGL project, and it worked fine with Game Capture as well.

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Thanks for testing that. I will check on a different machine when I have time for that. Not that important since “Window Capture” and “Fullscreen Capture” are working but maybe using “Game Capture” has some other advantage like better performance?

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I’m not really sure. If there’s an OBS forum somewhere, someone’s probably asked about it. If I had to guess, I would assume there’s little or no performance difference, just differences in options. For instance, in Game Capture mode there’s a checkbox for using SLI/Crossfire that isn’t there in Window Capture.