Livesplit freezes with obs
3 years ago
United States
Alicetwopointoh
She/Her, They/Them
3 years ago

I get everything to show up perfectly, but livesplit freezes and I can't even restart the program, I dont have a second monitor so I keep having to stop recordings to check and I just keep wasting my time, how do I fix? If I just don't use OBS fullscreen but edit to not show my desktop can I just do that? Throw on a black Ms paint background or something? Live doesn't even start in fullscreen,

Edit: so the tutorial given said to keep global hotkeys off, but turning it back on lets me use it fullscreen now, but sometimes timer doesn't start while game is in fullscreen, I try wsplit and it works but doesn't show the numbers moving until I exit full screen

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Israel

What do you mean by "livesplit freezes"? Does the program stop responding, or it is working fine but freezes in the OBS recording?

If it's the latter, this probably happen because you minimise the livesplit window, sometimes OBS can't record minimised windows properly.

Also, what tutorial do you use? I recommend always keeping global hotkeys on, you don't want to click away from your game to the livesplit window everytime just to make a split.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
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United States
Alicetwopointoh
She/Her, They/Them
3 years ago

It freezes in OBS recording, I didn't minimize the app but I just move the timer in OBS to the right. I'll find the link, I tried wsplit just now and it works way better but the numbers don't show their going in the recording until I'm out of fullscreen, also I don't need splits, I'm running California Games, it's a 2 min run.

Edited by the author 3 years ago
United States

You might want to fiddle with the placement of LiveSplit on your screens. I have a similar issue sometimes; the timer runs but OBS isn't capturing LiveSplit live until it's on the main window (though it can be behind other applications). If you've moved it off of your screen, that might be causing that.

United States
Alicetwopointoh
She/Her, They/Them
3 years ago

On the OBS screen it is on the top right corner, I normal screen usually just have the timer open wherever, but it's not minimized. Maybe have it open over OBS and the emulator over it as well? I do minimize OBS and maybe that can be a problem? I found another emulator that I can manually stretch and if I can't get the solution working would I be allowed to just stretch it windowed over most the screen?

Edited by the author 3 years ago