Question / Help Failed to initialize video: Invalid parameters

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chucknorrissann

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OBS was running just fine untill I hooked my second screen up on my laptop and all the sudden I get that error as soon as I open OBS.

Can anyone help me out? Can't find my logs on my computer just got this beauty and it's win10 so it's all new
 
00:17:17.966: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz
00:17:17.966: CPU Speed: 2195MHz
00:17:17.966: Physical Cores: 2, Logical Cores: 4
00:17:17.966: Physical Memory: 2047MB Total, 2047MB Free (NOTE: 4 gigs max is normal for 32bit programs)
00:17:17.966: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 10240 (revision: 16384)
00:17:17.966: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
00:17:17.978: OBS 0.11.4 (windows)
00:17:17.978: ---------------------------------
00:17:17.979: ---------------------------------
00:17:17.979: audio settings reset:
00:17:17.979: samples per sec: 48000
00:17:17.979: speakers: 2
00:17:17.979: buffering (ms): 1000
00:17:17.980: Failed to initialize obs video (-3) with graphics_module='libobs-d3d11.dll', retrying with graphics_module='libobs-opengl.dll'
00:17:17.980: Failed to initialize video: Invalid parameters
00:17:18.924: Freeing OBS context data
00:17:18.934: == Profiler Results =============================
00:17:18.934: run_program_init: 1007.77 ms
00:17:18.934: ┣OBSApp::AppInit: 5.608 ms
00:17:18.934: ┃ ┗OBSApp::InitLocale: 3.123 ms
00:17:18.934: ┗OBSApp::OBSInit: 26.715 ms
00:17:18.934: ┣obs_startup: 1.534 ms
00:17:18.934: ┗OBSBasic::OBSInit: 1.597 ms
00:17:18.934: ┣OBSBasic::InitBasicConfig: 1.006 ms
00:17:18.934: ┣OBSBasic::ResetAudio: 0.397 ms
00:17:18.934: ┗OBSBasic::ResetVideo: 0.108 ms
00:17:18.935: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=0.005 ms, median=0.008 ms, max=0.07 ms, 99th percentile=0.07 ms, 100% below 25 ms
00:17:18.935: audio_thread(Audio): min=0.007 ms, median=0.01 ms, max=0.025 ms, 99th percentile=0.025 ms
00:17:18.935: =================================================
00:17:18.935: == Profiler Time Between Calls ==================
00:17:18.935: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=24.845 ms, median=25.019 ms, max=25.499 ms, 100% within ±2% of 25 ms (0% lower, 0% higher)
00:17:18.935: =================================================
00:17:18.943: Number of memory leaks: 170
 
This is just a hunch and as I can't recreate your error I can't test it but could you go to the following directory: %appdata%\obs-studio (go to File Explorer and type this in the address bar). You should see a file called global.ini, right click choose rename and call it globalold.ini. Then try to restart OBS MP. Let me know what happens.
 
Adrian Schofield said:
This is just a hunch and as I can't recreate your error I can't test it but could you go to the following directory: %appdata%\obs-studio (go to File Explorer and type this in the address bar). You should see a file called global.ini, right click choose rename and call it globalold.ini. Then try to restart OBS MP. Let me know what happens.
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Thanks for the try but all it did after I changed the name was ask me to accept the licence and it gave the same error again
 
OK that's weird I remember there was a problem with earlier versions of OBS when you added a second monitor or did something with your existing monitor setup that broke the position of the main OBS window. What happens if you disconnect your external monitor does OBS start then?
 
Adrian Schofield said:
OK that's weird I remember there was a problem with earlier versions of OBS when you added a second monitor or did something with your existing monitor setup that broke the position of the main OBS window. What happens if you disconnect your external monitor does OBS start then?
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I did play around with the monitor settings beceause it wasnt working the way I wanted it to be. Even after I disconnect the second monitor from my laptop it still gives the same error. I removed OBS and redownloaded it again aswell without the second monitor and still no results. :S
 
One last thing we could try is to give OBS a completely blank configuration. Go to %appdata% and rename the obs-studio directory to obs-studio-old. Try OBS again and see if that works.
 
Adrian Schofield said:
One last thing we could try is to give OBS a completely blank configuration. Go to %appdata% and rename the obs-studio directory to obs-studio-old. Try OBS again and see if that works.
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You sir are a god! It actually worked it opens just fine. Ill keep you updated when I connect my second screen again.
 
OK the problem with that is if you had any settings/scenes configured they will all be gone. Let us know if it works with the second monitor, if it fails when the second monitor is installed just trying renaming the same folder again to give OBS a clear config with both screens plugged in.
 
GOD BLESS YOU, I was having the same problem and you fixed it for me.

Sorry if "god bless" you is offending, I say it when I'm happy
 
I was streaming fine yesterday and when I tried to open it up now an error appeared and it said "Failed to initialize video: Invalid parameters". Can anyone help me with this? I tried the step that worked for DannyHLMO and it didn't work for me.
 
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