obs vkcapture

obs-vkcapture

(Project Page: obs-vkcapture)

obs-vkcapture is a tool that captures a game window and plugs it into OBS Studio as a source with minimal overhead and no need to manually choose the game window source every time you switch games or any other workarounds. It is optimized to consume very little system resources.

For info on how to install obs-vkcapture check out the link above. For incredible performance on modern AMD GPUs check out the encoding tools gstreamer-vaapi and obs-gstreamer. Check out the links for those as well. gstreamer-vaapi is commonly in your distribution’s repos, though it may go by a different package name (e.g. on OpenSUSE it’s named gstreamer-plugins-vaapi).

Enabling obs-vkcapture

(in Game Menu and Game Config, under Tool Options)

You can enable obs-vkcapture with USEOBSVKC, called ‘Enable obs-gamecapture’ in the menu. This is the equivalent of running obs-gamecapture ‘game-that-is-being-launched’.

Usage

After enabling obs-vkcapture, start OBS. If you’re on X11 you need to start OBS with OBS_USE_EGL=1 obs. If you’re on Wayland, just start OBS normally. To add the obs-vkcapture source, choose “Game Capture” in the sources list. For help setting up other aspects of OBS, check out the OBS README.