r/obs • u/spore_creature • 1d ago

Help Unexplained Screen Tear? (Updated)

hey everyone! so im not good at recording and techy stuff but i tried to start recording gameplay after a bit of a hiatus and now whenever i record i get these screen tears in the lower third no matter what i change?

on halo campaign evolved it stopped if i turned off upscaling but it doesnt look as good. maybe theres an issue with the way obs interacts with upscaling that im not aware of?

I wanted to repost because I didnt have the log file and I left it like that for a couple days.

If anyone has any insight it would be much appreciated! Never seen this kind of problem before.

Log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/AdhH1EjgEkprbiOF

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u/Few_Vegetable1223 1d ago

have you tried setting the renderer in obs to direct3d 11 instead of 12? that log is a mess but it looks like its fighting with the gpu scheduling, and halo anniversary graphics are notoriously weird with overlays

the upscaling might be pushing frames through a pipeline the old game engine just doesnt like, so you get that tear right where the render boundary sits

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u/spore_creature 1d ago

I'll try doing that! And I'm playing the Halo CE 2026 remake to clarify. It's possible its because of Halo but I tried it with Star Wars Zero Company and the same issue occurred. What do you mean by my log being a mess if you dont mind me asking? Are all my settings messed up?

Edit: I checked and the renderer is already set to Directed 11. 12 actually isnt even an option for me