toona:
I found my answer need to upgrade my system to do this. :(
My laptop is low end and can't initialize as commonly needed, but I did find out that I could use XSplit Broadcaster (again, broadcaster) to capture (then crop) the game window without using the more common game capture feature.
https://www.xsplit.com/products/broadcaster?lang=en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSplit_Broadcaster