TabTip.exe picked up

[YelovSK]

I don't know if there's a nice solution, but I'll make an issue in case anyone gets the same behaviour. TabTip (virtual keyboard) is getting picked up instead of games. I have a bunch of TabTip executables, most of which are in the C:\Windows folder, but the process that's actually being run is in C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\ink\TabTip.exe. Maybe there's a way to detect windows like these, I'm not sure. From user's perspective the difference is that it's invisible, but I don't know if that can be easily checked, I'm not familiar with C and Windows libraries.

[redraskal]

i'll have to look into checking for invisibility. currently, i ignore xbox game bar because the process causes the same problem.

[redraskal]

hey @YelovSK, try this version of detect_game.dll and let me know if the problem is fixed!

detect_game_dll.zip

[redraskal]

replace the detect_game.dll file with the one in that zip file & restart OBS

[YelovSK]

hey @YelovSK, try this version of detect_game.dll and let me know if the problem is fixed!

detect_game_dll.zip

It's still picking up TabTip instead of games.

[redraskal]

what games are you testing? i cannot reproduce this on my end while using TabTip with the new dll

[redraskal]

also, is your game in full screen or in borderless windowed in full screen?

[YelovSK]

I tested The Finals and DotA 2, both in borderless and fullscreen. I manually opened TabTip beforehand because IIRC I somehow had it disabled.

[Greatscoot]

Hey, having the same issue too. Tested with Hollow Knight (Borderless fullscreen), and just on desktop. I have managed to disable Tabtip.exe (cause I don't need it) by renaming the file so it won't open automatically. I used this article as a guide https://www.howtogeek.com/259900/how-to-permanently-disable-the-touch-keyboard-in-windows-8-and-10/

Not ideal, but meh. Doesn't affect my tablet for Osu either with OpenTabletDriver, so whatever.

[Mylloon]

I have the same issue with Honkai Star Rail and VALORANT, even with the dll provided above

[Mylloon]

FYI excluding C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared works for me

static const char windowsapps[] = "C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\microsoft shared\\";

// ...in get_running_fullscreen_game_path
result = strncmp(charPath, windowsapps, 47);
if (result == 0) {
  continue;
}

Meanwhile, here is a working fork: https://github.com/Mylloon/obs-replay-folders/releases

[redraskal]

i'll update this

[YelovSK]

I have another window that's causing issues - MicrosoftStartFeedProvider. Checking IsWindowVisible solves the issue for me - diff.

[redraskal]

I have another window that's causing issues - MicrosoftStartFeedProvider. Checking IsWindowVisible solves the issue for me - diff.

Hey, thanks for the update and sorry for the slow turnaround! I like your replay-buffer-move-to-folder project and think that small program blocklist is the way to go at this point. I'm still looking around for more Windows APIs, but don't want to bloat the implementation too much just to get a full screen window lol

[YelovSK]

Hey, thanks for the update and sorry for the slow turnaround! I like your replay-buffer-move-to-folder project and think that small program blocklist is the way to go at this point. I'm still looking around for more Windows APIs, but don't want to bloat the implementation too much just to get a full screen window lol

Yea, I personally gave up on trying to fix it myself, right now I am using this script - smart_replays - it has Python as a dependency but for the most part it's working fine.

I think I've also seen some people get the name from OBS's API, I think from the game capture source or something, but that wasn't consistent for me as it didn't work for a lot of games.