The difference is that game capture will always capture the game specified regardless of whether it is active on the monitor, whereas window capture will capture the region of the monitor on which the game is played, regardless of whether or not the game is actually being displayed on the monitor at the time. For capturing a game, game capture should be used, but if the application to be captured is not compatible with game capture, use window capture. Next, sources must be added to that scene.

This is done by right clicking on the box labelled 'Scene' in the bottom left, and clicking 'Add' to add a new scene. Sources can include a game, a region on the screen, a webcam, and a variety of other things.įirst, a scene needs to be created. Within the scene, various sources can be added, which is what will be recorded when that scene is added. The way OBS works is that one can set up many different scenes and switch between them, recording what is currently set in that scene. The first step is to make sure that the screen is displayed properly, because there is no point in fine tuning settings if the screen is not being displayed properly.

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