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Command Line Vulpine 18 Feb, 2019 @ 12:20am
Recording, Full Screen, and Graphics Issues
What I thought was one issue turned into many as I mess around to try to get it to work, so I'll go one by one here. Ran fine on native settings, so it's not a matter of my hardware having trouble.

1. I wanted to record the game with SLOBS for local recording. If the game is full screen it will either just stay black, or start capturing if I put it in windowed mode.

2. Full screen is tottally busted. It runs at 20fps, if I make it windowed with the same settings it runs at 144.

3. Putting it in Windowed mode makes Mars disappear on the menu screen, and if I run a scenario or something to see in game the graphics are ENTIRELY demolished. Weirdly, just changing it back to full screen in game completely corrects it like it was never an issue, and changing it back breaks it again.



I tried searching the issue, several people have had it but no one really made a direct answer, or suddenly it just started working for them. Any ideas?

Pertinent Info:
GTX 1070 Ti
Intel i7-3770K
16GB DDR3-1600
Cosair NX500 PCI-E SSD
2K 144HRTZ 1ms G-Sync Monitor
Windows 10 64-bit
Last edited by Command Line Vulpine; 18 Feb, 2019 @ 12:41am
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Mr. Monochrome [Hood Certified] 18 Feb, 2019 @ 1:28am 
Have you tried Step 2-4 from the troubleshooting guide:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/244030/discussions/0/154642901283546556/


Since you mention graphical issues and are running Windows 10. There have been countless issues with Windows 10 and this game. Most, if not all, have been solved using the steps mentioned above. But I can't guarantee it will fix your issue it's still worth a try and look.

If you could provide any screenshots or video it would help troubleshoot the issue further. Doesn't matter if the quality is bad it still helps me *see* the issue on my end. Then just upload to google drive, Dropbox or another online file sharing service.
Last edited by Mr. Monochrome [Hood Certified]; 18 Feb, 2019 @ 1:30am
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Command Line Vulpine 18 Feb, 2019 @ 1:50am 
Alright here's some screenshots and I'll explain what they're showing. i have 2 monitors, so the right half is the gaming monitor and the left half is what I have my recording software and computer specs running:

https://i.imgur.com/ISaexwP.jpg
This one is at 2K resolution full screen. The FPS isn't going over 22. And you can see that SLOBS doesn't match the right monitor, it got stuck immediately when I applied the change to go full screen.


https://i.imgur.com/RT9qJ6L.png
This one is 1080p full screen. FPS is 21, so this shows it's not a hardware limitation. SLOBS doesn't match because it froze going full screen again.


https://i.imgur.com/c2Mv8YZ.png
This one is 1080p windowed. As you can see FPS leaps up to 143. SLOBS shows the same screen so is recording fine.


https://i.imgur.com/2J2gOw9.jpg
This one is 2K windowed. Running at 143 FPS. SLOBS working fine also.


That third issue I was having seems to be gone now, that might have been due to following the troubleshooting steps. Now it's purely just I'm not able to record full screen and the performance hit on full screen is immense.
Last edited by Command Line Vulpine; 18 Feb, 2019 @ 1:51am
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Mr. Monochrome [Hood Certified] 18 Feb, 2019 @ 2:43am 
Is there any difference running everything on just one monitor or is it the same?

What about switching which monitor is primary or secondary? (Game on left, rec software on right monitor)

Try changing how the desktop is displayed... extending the desktop vs. displaying the same thing or different things

This might also help it explains using a program AutoHotKey and using the FullScreen script with modification to the script to set multi-monitor:

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Glossary:Borderless_fullscreen_windowed#AutoHotkey

The multi-monitor section comes before the Linux instructions.
Last edited by Mr. Monochrome [Hood Certified]; 18 Feb, 2019 @ 3:01am
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Command Line Vulpine 18 Feb, 2019 @ 10:21pm 
Okay using that software to make it a borderless window works.

This isn't @you. Just very disappointed I have to do this at all. I remember having problems with this in Early Access so the fact it still has issues is kinda sad. The fact it has problems with Windows 10 when I still have Windows 2000 games that work fine on Window 10 also pretty sad.
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Mr. Monochrome [Hood Certified] 18 Feb, 2019 @ 10:35pm 
Originally posted by Lanceo90:
Okay using that software to make it a borderless window works.

This isn't @you. Just very disappointed I have to do this at all. I remember having problems with this in Early Access so the fact it still has issues is kinda sad. The fact it has problems with Windows 10 when I still have Windows 2000 games that work fine on Window 10 also pretty sad.

No worries. In my opinion Windows 10 wasn't ready for release and it seems like Microsoft is in damage control for all the problems they keep having. There were a few lawsuits when 10 first came out cause they were forcing it onto peoples machines. Plus there's all the spying stuff built into Windows 10 that lets Microsoft collect user data which is pretty shiesty.

I think they should have just stuck with Windows 7 and kept improving it. Instead of launching a whole new OS.

I don't think this game ever had multi-monitor support to begin with considering there aren't many who play games with multi-monitor. Usually it's game studios, coders, or model makers and the like who do the dual monitor thing. Considering not everyone's hardware setup/PC rig is the same.

Anywho, glad I could be of help and get things working for ya.
Last edited by Mr. Monochrome [Hood Certified]; 18 Feb, 2019 @ 10:37pm
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Command Line Vulpine 20 Feb, 2019 @ 4:26pm 
I don't know, 10's getting on 4 years old right now. I was a little slow to pick it up and only had 1 major issue last year. And like I said I have older games than this that work fine so I kinda put this one on Bohemia, especially considering I had trouble back when I did have 7 too.

As for multi monitors that shouldn't be the issue. I don't have them set up to like, play a game stretched across both. Full screen apps will target just the primary one, the other screen I just have other windows pulled up. And like before, I have older games with smaller budgets that don't have a problem with it.

In any case, the work around works
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