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Program to capture part of game screen, enlarge it and display on 2nd screen

Started by July 26, 2024 12:32 AM
2 comments, last by glynd02 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Hi there, just wondering if anybody knows of a small program that will allow me to set a region of screen to be captured and displayed on another monitor?

My problem is I love playing Independence War 2 on a big 1920 x 1080 screen. And as you can see from the attached screen-shot, the important parts of the screen in the top left (navigation lock & weapon), top right (contacts & shield status) and bottom right (contact list) are pretty small! My eyesight isn't what it used to be 🙂

IW2 ship cockpit

So my ideal solution is to have a little screen capture program (running times 3, if needed) that captures these areas and displays an enlarged version on a second monitor, something like a MFD on a modern fighter jet or helicopter. Ideally you should be able to set the regions up and save them to save messing about every time you want to load the game. I did find a mini-map zoomer for World of Tanks (cMap Duplicator.exe) ages ago, however I have lost the program. Also that software did not remember the size and position settings, which is a bit of a pain.

Did see some info about OBS, however not sure if you can run 3 instances at the same time, or what the processing hit would be…

Many thanks in advance.
Cheers Glyn

If you dont find anything, I would 1) Reach out to the developers if still around. No reason they dont have the ability to make the UI bigger. 2) You can try but I doubt will work, use the windows display resolution settings. Depends if their app respects it or not. 3) You can scale up a part of the screen using OBS, worth a try. Likely need 3 instances but surprised they dont have a way to do what you are asking.

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Thanks for the reply dpadam.

Devs are no longer around so that is not an option unfortunately.

Tried Dxtory, Debut Video Capture and Xbox Game Bar. Dxtory keeps crashing when it starts up (Win 11) and looks like it hasn't been updated in a while. Debut VC works however the interface is quite cluttered and can't be trimmed down. Xbox Game Bar only works on full screen as far as I can make out…

OBS is last on my list to try out, as it is quite a large install.

Cheers
Glyn

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