Question / Help Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drivers may need to be updated.

[sevs]

I'm unable to open OBS. Not sure if I'll get any helpful support on this forum, but I'll try anyway. Log is posted below.
It has worked before.

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16:54:41.407: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz
16:54:41.408: CPU Speed: 3400MHz
16:54:41.408: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 8
16:54:41.408: Physical Memory: 23775MB Total, 17683MB Free
16:54:41.408: Windows Version: 6.1 Build 7601 (revision: 24545; 64-bit)
16:54:41.408: Running as administrator: true
16:54:41.408: Aero is Enabled
16:54:41.408: Portable mode: false
16:54:41.418: OBS 20.0.1 (64bit, windows)
16:54:41.418: ---------------------------------
16:54:41.418: ---------------------------------
16:54:41.419: audio settings reset:
16:54:41.419: samples per sec: 44100
16:54:41.419: speakers: 2
16:54:41.422: ---------------------------------
16:54:41.422: Initializing D3D11...
16:54:41.423: Available Video Adapters:
16:54:41.424: Adapter 1: AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
16:54:41.424: Dedicated VRAM: 2098397184
16:54:41.424: Shared VRAM: 4026531840
16:54:41.424: output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1440}, attached=true
16:54:41.427: Loading up D3D11 on adapter AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (0)
16:54:41.444: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: 45056
16:54:41.472: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.475: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.482: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.484: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.486: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.488: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.489: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.491: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.494: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.497: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.499: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.502: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.504: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.507: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.510: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.513: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.515: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.518: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.520: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.522: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.524: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.526: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.529: device_vertexshader_create (D3D11): Unknown Semantic Name
16:54:41.614: Failed to initialize obs video (-1) with graphics_module='libobs-d3d11.dll', retrying with graphics_module='libobs-opengl.dll'
16:54:41.617: ---------------------------------
16:54:41.617: Initializing OpenGL...
16:54:41.862: OpenGL version: 4.6.13587 Compatibility Profile Context 20.2.2 26.20.15019.19000
16:54:41.862: Warning: The OpenGL renderer is currently in use. On windows, the OpenGL renderer can decrease capture performance due to the lack of specific features used to maximize capture performance. The Direct3D 11 renderer is recommended instead.
16:54:41.865: device_vertexshader_create (GL) failed
16:54:41.866: device_vertexshader_create (GL) failed
16:54:41.866: device_vertexshader_create (GL) failed
16:54:41.866: device_vertexshader_create (GL) failed
16:54:41.866: device_vertexshader_create (GL) failed
16:54:41.867: device_vertexshader_create (GL) failed
16:54:41.867: device_vertexshader_create (GL) failed
16:54:41.867: device_vertexshader_create (GL) failed
16:54:41.867: device_vertexshader_create (GL) failed
16:54:41.867: device_vertexshader_create (GL) failed
16:54:41.868: device_vertexshader_create (GL) failed
16:54:41.875: Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drivers may need to be updated.
16:54:44.303: Freeing OBS context data
16:54:44.304: == Profiler Results =============================
16:54:44.304: run_program_init: 5220.22 ms
16:54:44.304: ┣OBSApp::AppInit: 25.07 ms
16:54:44.304: ┃ ┗OBSApp::InitLocale: 0.86 ms
16:54:44.304: ┗OBSApp::OBSInit: 2758.52 ms
16:54:44.304: ┣obs_startup: 1.337 ms
16:54:44.304: ┗OBSBasic::OBSInit: 456.894 ms
16:54:44.304: ┣OBSBasic::InitBasicConfig: 0.461 ms
16:54:44.304: ┣OBSBasic::ResetAudio: 0.56 ms
16:54:44.304: ┗OBSBasic::ResetVideo: 455.831 ms
16:54:44.304: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=0.001 ms, median=0.002 ms, max=0.064 ms, 99th percentile=0.059 ms, 100% below 25 ms
16:54:44.304: audio_thread(Audio): min=0 ms, median=0.013 ms, max=0.05 ms, 99th percentile=0.024 ms
16:54:44.304: =================================================
16:54:44.304: == Profiler Time Between Calls ==================
16:54:44.304: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=24.871 ms, median=25.004 ms, max=25.151 ms, 100% within ±2% of 25 ms (0% lower, 0% higher)
16:54:44.304: =================================================
16:54:44.306: Number of memory leaks: 216

List of things I've tried:
-renaming global.ini
-updating graphics drivers
-reinstalling graphics drivers

 

[R1CH]

Update OBS, v20 is very old.

 

[Narcogen]

Also update to Windows 10.

 

[sevs]

Update OBS, v20 is very old.

thanks, i though obs had auto updated but alas not

Also update to Windows 10.

irrelevant and unhelpful

 

[sevs]

I have no idea why I can't edit the OP, but the problem is fixed

 

[R1CH]

You really should consider updating to Windows 10 though, Windows 7 is EOL and future compatibility with OBS is not guaranteed.