Bug #1246

Recording Software Fails to Capture Gameplay After Some Matches

Status:	Open
Priority:	High
Added by:	CaffeinatedCucumber on February 22, '26
Assigned to:	Unassigned
Due date:
Reported for:	1.3 - Season 1.3

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open SGAR
2. Play one or two matches
3. Attempt to record or screenshot through any means other than Steam

Explanation

Midway through the first or second match after restarting the game, all recording software except for steam screenshots sees only a black screen.

Relevant info:

• This bug triggers after some time playing; when I first open the game I can capture fine, but midway through the first or second match it becomes black until I restart the game.
• Steam screenshots and only steam screenshots work. OBS, Discord, and Snip & Sketch all don't work—this goes for both display capture and window capture.
• This happens on both DX11 and DX12
• The following attempted fixes did not work:
  • Disabling MPO (which, weirdly enough, caused Discord to think SGAR was minimized instead of just streaming a black screen)
  • Disabling HAGS
  • Launching OBS with admin privileges
  • Disabling fullscreen optimizations for the PortalWars2Client-Win64- executable
  • Updating Windows and my graphics drivers (this has been happening to me since the original SG2 alpha and I've updated both several times since)
  • Using windowed mode
  • Playing no portals only (I tried this in case the portal rendering might have somehow been causing swapchain issues)
  • Driver-level and game-level VSync
  • Disabling sysmem fallback for the GPU

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