I just tried to record a run of Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time, which plays in full screen only so I cannot see the Livesplit timer when playing. However, it recorded it all wrong. It captured only the game audio and the Livesplit timer (which I've placed in the top-right corner) didn't budge at all until I closed the game, though it was definitely still running in the background. Hope all that made sense.

What can I do to fix this?

No I don't, just OBS

@paratrooper44 livesplit should have an option to force on top, by using that you'd be able to see it while in fullscreen, as for why it wouldn't record, have you tried using screen/game capture instead of possibly window capture?

@Sizzyl I have "always on top" checked in the layout settings for Livesplit but I still can't view it while playing the game due to not being able to play in windowed mode. I have livesplit on Window Capture and the game on Game Capture.

Try Window capture instead of game capture for the game. I think I only tried game capture once or twice and it didn't work properly, window capture is way more reliable.

@Laxxus Tried to get Window Capture to detect the game while it's open but it won't. Only way it seems to detect the game is through Game Capture.

Here's what I want the recording to look like, more or less:

And here's what I got instead:

you could try display capture. it might be a bit harder for your computer though

@SioN That works better, but the game appears small in the upper left-hand corner. I want it to fill up the screen all the way to where the timer is.

you can hold ALT and grab the points of the display capture to crop it to the game. then just make it bigger

@paratrooper44 That video is private.

@Pear That's weird, I thought I set it to unlisted. I think I've fixed it now.

I'll relink the video I tried to link earlier which was accidentally set to private.

Alright, after much trial and error, the game now appears as it should. However, the Livesplit timer remains static until the game crashes (which can happen so nothing unusual). Here's what it looks like:

@paratrooper44

If you're saying it's small, right click it in the thing in the 'sources' tab, hit 'transform', then 'stretch to screen'. Also for your game recording, check that you have it set to visible, you want the open eye, not the closed one.

sizzyl please dont tell people to stretch video :D stretching 4:3 to 16:9 looks absolutely disgusting

Fit to screen is better

I've figured out what the problem was. It turns out that the livesplit timer has to be entirely within the display area being captured by OBS to show any movement, even if it is in the background. Here's what it looks like now:

Problem solved I think.

@SioN that's a matter of opinion. I think it looks funny. I also am not a fan of random black space.

personally seeing stretched games on peoples streams makes me want to rip my asshole out trough my mouth whatever that might mean. i also have no problem with black space and you can always fill it with something. but anyway this converstion is not what this thread was for