Question / Help Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported...

[shoutmilo]

Whenever I try to open OBS I get this message:
"Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drivers may need to be updated."
I've seen people solve this problem on Windows but I don't know how to fix on Mac.

Heres my specs:
macOS Sierra v. 10.12.6
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB

I opened /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/Resources/bin/obs in Finder and opened it in the terminal which got me this:

Failed to find locale/en-US.ini
Failed to load locale

milos-MBP:~ Milo$ /Applications/OBS.app/Contents/Resources/bin/obs ; exit;
Core Image is now using the software OpenGL renderer. This will be slow.
error: Failed to load locale
info: == Profiler Results =============================
info: run_program_init: 8820.6 ms
info: ┗OBSApp::AppInit: 4797.65 ms
info: ┗OBSApp::InitLocale: 4773.56 ms

...Then it crashed!
I definitely think its an OpenGL related issue but I don't know how to fix it.
OBS was working smoothly a week ago. Please help!

 

[Narcogen]

Delete ~/Application Support/obs-studio and restart.

Warning: This will delete profiles and scenes so you may want to export them first.

 

[wstomv]

I have the same issue, running Ventura 13.6, OBS 29.1.3 (Apple Silicon). OBS worked fine a few weeks ago, and now I get this message. I did probably update Ventura with security patches in the meantime, but otherwise my system didn't change.

You meant: remove ~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio. It might be better to rename it and later copy back in the profile and scenes (from folder basic). I tried that without restarting, and that didn't help. Same error again. Will try restarting later and report back.

 

[wstomv]

I have the same issue, running Ventura 13.6, OBS 29.1.3 (Apple Silicon). OBS worked fine a few weeks ago, and now I get this message. I did probably update Ventura with security patches in the meantime, but otherwise my system didn't change.

You meant: remove ~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio. It might be better to rename it and later copy back in the profile and scenes (from folder basic). I tried that without restarting, and that didn't help. Same error again. Will try restarting later and report back.

My problem is probably related an issue that I often have with Teams where my built-in camera starts to misbehave and no longer works (even though the camera light is on). Restarting my MacBook solved the problem, even my old OBS settings.

 

[AlphaSpirit]

Can't get it to work ....

I am getting crazy ....
My machine (Apple M2 Pro / macOS Sonoma). All of a sudden after a crash, it won't load again. I get a screen error that says:
I uninstalled OBS using appCleaner and reinstalled it (version 30.1.2 ) with no avail.
I reinstalled Sonoma (macOS Recovery), nothing changed.
Thank you

 

[AlphaSpirit]

SOLUTION.

Something set your canvas size to be too large for OBS, like in excess of 10,000 pixels wide or tall. to fix it, you'll need to edit one of your initialization files to fix the resolution

in Finder, press Shift-Command-G, paste in the following and hit enter:

~/Library/Application Support/obs-studio/basic/profiles

open your profile folder, then open the file "basic.ini" in a text editor such as TextEdit.

scroll down to the area labeled [Video], then change the top four values as following:

[Video]
BaseCX=1920
BaseCY=1080
OutputCX=1920
OutputCY=1080

leave the rest of the file as is
OBS should now start up just fine

If above does not work, just delete the obs-studio folder completely.