obs-vkcapture for Origin games

[jarrard]

Seems there could be a problem running obs-vkcapture with origin games as they run behind a Origin launcher which does not at all like obs-vkcapture run before it.

It be nice if there was a env variable that could be used like OBSCAPTURE = "Game.exe" ? something like that would be useful.

EDIT: It might just be a issue with the quicklaunch method. Running obs-vkcapture on origin.exe appears to work, maybe.

EDIT2: Nope, seems it will ignore anything launched with origin. Except launchers itself... Using Mass Effect LEG as a test case, it can't see the game exe in the game capture source.

[nowrep]

You're only supposed to run the games with obs-vkcapture, not launchers (same with Steam).

But please post logs and describe the issue better. It just doesn't show in OBS in game list, it crashes the game, etc?

[jarrard]

Some games are forced to run through launcher. No method around it unfortunately. MEL123 for example has a launcher you must go through afaik. But its not a big issue at end of day, just a limitation of this tool I guess.

[nowrep]

I would still like to see the logs from the game where it doesn't work. Also logs with VK_LOADER_DEBUG=all env variable set.

[jarrard]

Well it does work but it ONLY detects the Origin.exe and MELauncher.exe files. Selecting the pick any window option doesn't solve the issue.

So basically its run like obs-vkcapture Origin.exe since that is what you need to do. Now maybe other games work that don't have launchers but afaik games that have a forced launcher like Mass Effect are causing a issue for game detection.

I'll work on getting those logs for you non the less.

[nowrep]

As long as it doesn't crash the game/launcher it doesn't really matter if the obs-vkcapture gets loaded into launcher process too. It should show the launcher AND the game in the "select window" option in OBS. But yes, please try to get the logs.

[jarrard]

Here is a log capture. Bit messy but you can see vkcapture is logging correctly there.

Basically it sees Origin.exe and MassEffectLauncher but not the game behind those.

obscapturevkloader-logs.log

[jarrard]

Out of curriosity I disabled gamemoderun, vkbasalt, and mangohud (using environmental flags and options in lutris). Now when I go to the game main menu and minimize back to OBS, it appears! I've used those things before without issue. Odd. Maybe this isn't a problem after-all?

obscapturevkloader-logs-2.log

Interesting enough OBS game capture shows the game to be a BLANK space. No name.

[nowrep]

Can you build obs-vkcapture in debug and get the logs again? Also without the VK_LOADER_DEBUG (the layer gets loaded correctly in both cases).

[jarrard]

Sorry I've changed my setup and it will be a while before I test any origin stuff again. (data lost) Did a complete whip and now trying to move to flatpak steam...

[nowrep]

Please reopen if you still have this issue.