Question / Help Failed to Initialize Video: Unspecified Error

btris

New Member
I hadn't updated OBS when this happened. Some of my overlays weren't working either. I had it opened today and was working on making overlays when I tried to change the resolution ratio (I think that's what it was? It was the one below the first resolution option.) and then I clicked studio mode (I don't remember if that's what it's called) and it wouldn't go back to the way it was so I closed it and next thing I know I get that error message whenever I try to open it.

I tried restarting my computer, uninstalling and reinstalling, troubleshooting (run as admin, change compatibility settings), and updating my GeForce Experience application and installing a new driver; nothing has worked. I'm not sure what I should do anymore.

I totally forgot to get the logs when I was uninstalling, but here is the one I have now.

18:05:49.142: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz
18:05:49.142: CPU Speed: 2712MHz
18:05:49.142: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 4
18:05:49.142: Physical Memory: 1023MB Total, 1023MB Free (NOTE: 2 or 4 gigs max is normal for 32bit programs)
18:05:49.142: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 14393 (revision: 447; 64-bit)
18:05:49.142: Running as administrator: false
18:05:49.142: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
18:05:49.143: Portable mode: false
18:05:49.155: OBS 0.16.5 (windows)
18:05:49.155: ---------------------------------
18:05:49.155: ---------------------------------
18:05:49.156: audio settings reset:
18:05:49.156: samples per sec: 44100
18:05:49.156: speakers: 2
18:05:49.156: ---------------------------------
18:05:49.156: Initializing D3D11..
18:05:49.156: Available Video Adapters:
18:05:49.158: Adapter 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
18:05:49.158: Dedicated VRAM: 2114650112
18:05:49.158: Shared VRAM: 2180251648
18:05:49.158: output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1600, 1200}, attached=true
18:05:49.158: output 2: pos={-1280, 0}, size={1280, 1024}, attached=true
18:05:49.160: Loading up D3D11 on adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 (0)
18:05:49.826: D3D11 loaded sucessfully, feature level used: 45056
18:05:50.464: ---------------------------------
18:05:50.464: video settings reset:
18:05:50.464: base resolution: 1600x1200
18:05:50.464: output resolution: 16600x1200
18:05:50.464: downscale filter: Bilinear
18:05:50.464: fps: 60/1
18:05:50.464: format: NV12
18:05:50.464: device_texture_create (D3D11): Failed to create 2D texture (80070057)
18:05:50.464: Failed to initialize obs video (-1) with graphics_module='libobs-d3d11.dll', retrying with graphics_module='libobs-opengl.dll'
18:05:50.465: ---------------------------------
18:05:50.465: video settings reset:
18:05:50.465: base resolution: 1600x1200
18:05:50.465: output resolution: 16600x1200
18:05:50.465: downscale filter: Bilinear
18:05:50.465: fps: 60/1
18:05:50.465: format: NV12
18:05:50.465: device_texture_create (D3D11): Failed to create 2D texture (80070057)
18:05:50.465: Failed to initialize video: Unspecified error
18:06:16.087: Freeing OBS context data
18:06:16.214: == Profiler Results =============================
18:06:16.214: run_program_init: 27107.8 ms
18:06:16.215: ┣OBSApp::AppInit: 1.882 ms
18:06:16.215: ┃ ┗OBSApp::InitLocale: 1.151 ms
18:06:16.215: ┗OBSApp::OBSInit: 1348.35 ms
18:06:16.215: ┣obs_startup: 1.787 ms
18:06:16.215: ┗OBSBasic::OBSInit: 1310.68 ms
18:06:16.215: ┣OBSBasic::InitBasicConfig: 0.417 ms
18:06:16.215: ┣OBSBasic::ResetAudio: 0.494 ms
18:06:16.215: ┗OBSBasic::ResetVideo: 1309.73 ms
18:06:16.215: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=0.002 ms, median=0.015 ms, max=0.795 ms, 99th percentile=0.159 ms, 100% below 25 ms
18:06:16.215: audio_thread(Audio): min=0 ms, median=0.025 ms, max=0.547 ms, 99th percentile=0.059 ms
18:06:16.215: =================================================
18:06:16.215: == Profiler Time Between Calls ==================
18:06:16.215: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=24.742 ms, median=25.421 ms, max=34.082 ms, 55.6818% within ±2% of 25 ms (0% lower, 44.3182% higher)
18:06:16.215: =================================================
18:06:16.223: Number of memory leaks: 172


Any advice on what I should do?
 
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EZDoesIt

New Member
I have exactly the same problem and have tried exactly what you have tried.

OBS is slowly becoming the worst recording software available -_-
 

btris

New Member
How do I do that? I can't even open OBS.
I knew it had to do with me changing the resolution... damn typos...

JK I fixed it. Went into basic configuration settings in the OBS file folders.

Thanks for noticing that! Life saver!!!
 
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