Failed to initialize video.

[Target222]

If anyone can explain how or why this is happening, or how to fix this, I'd love to know!

I was operating fine until this morning. Had a crash when trying to get some text to scroll and it shut down. Cannot load the application now with this error:

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

2019 MacBook Pro 16"
2.3GHz Core i9
AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 4GB
16GB DDR4 RAM
Sonoma 14.3.1

 

[g22k]

Yeah, I have the same symptoms. I have M2. I need a solution..

 

[AlphaSpirit]

I've got the same, and nobody has a clue what the hell is going on.... I CAN"T FIX IT....

 

[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.