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This group of triggers is based on image capture and analysis. The window selection and capture settings are shared, while the analysis settings depend on the specific trigger type.

Settings

• Target FPS — sets how often EyeAuras should capture and process the image. In most cases, the actual FPS will be lower, because analysis tasks such as text recognition or image search take a noticeable amount of time and resources.
• Mouse Cursor — some capture methods support enabling or disabling cursor capture. This setting controls that behavior.
• Settings => Max Capture FPS — this setting limits FPS for all triggers globally.

Capture Methods

• Windows Graphics — based on the official Windows capture API. One downside is that on versions older than 10.0.19041.0, the captured window gets a yellow border. On newer Windows versions, that border is no longer shown.
• Shared Surface — based on copying the GPU memory region where the window image is stored. In general, it is very similar to Windows Graphics, but works at a lower level and is therefore less reliable.
• Desktop Duplication — based on copying the GPU memory region that contains the full desktop image. The image is then cropped to the required region.
• Print Window — uses an older API. Overall, it is a fairly universal and performant capture method, but it cannot capture some types of windows, such as browsers.
• Copy Device Context — one of the legacy capture methods, kept mostly for academic purposes. It is not needed in most situations.
• Copy From Screen — the slowest and least efficient capture method. In practice, it takes a screenshot of the screen and then works with that image.

The main recommended capture method is Windows Graphics. It offers the best CPU/RAM balance, but in some cases games may block it. If that happens, use the list below to choose an alternative.

Sorted by performance

Windows Graphics > Shared Surface > Desktop Duplication > Print Window > Copy Device Context

Sorted by memory usage (higher in the list = lower usage)

Print Window > Windows Graphics > Shared Surface > Copy Device Context > Desktop Duplication > Copy From Screen