Question / Help Is there a version of OBS that would work with Windows 7?

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Nukhet

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If yes, where can I find it and download? The computer I need to capture screen videos cannot be upgraded and has be running Windows 7. I need to capture screen while it is running a particular program. Any advice will be appreciated.

Thank you
Nukhet
 
The current OBS version 24.0.3 should work with Windows 7. It worked when it was released in October 2019, so there is no reason to assume it will not work any more today. If it doesn't work, it is probably due to some broken thing with your Windows 7 setup, not with OBS, which is where you are on your own now due to Windows 7 being out of support.
 
Thank you for your reply, the computer is hooked up to an equipment in a core facility , so unfortunately we really do not have any saying on its software capabilities.
 
Nukhet said:
If yes, where can I find it and download? The computer I need to capture screen videos cannot be upgraded and has be running Windows 7. I need to capture screen while it is running a particular program. Any advice will be appreciated.

Thank you
Nukhet
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Certainly. I only use Windows 7, because it's lighter than windows 10, and I have everything set up, don't want to change.
 
Windows 7 isn't lighter. Actually, Windows 10 has better performance than Windows 7, especially with OBS, because Microsoft optimized some stuff. Windows 10 also needs less disk space for itself - as far as I remember it was about 10 GB less.
 
koala said:
Windows 7 isn't lighter. Actually, Windows 10 has better performance than Windows 7, especially with OBS, because Microsoft optimized some stuff. Windows 10 also needs less disk space for itself - as far as I remember it was about 10 GB less.
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Hello, Koala, I'm not referring specially for OBS, but I use my computers for many professional applications, and for them, windows 7 is a bit lighter.
 
Trying to install on WIN 7, because Win 10 updates wipe out all my settings and loses track of hardware. I get an error of not having the correct DirectX components installed, but dxdiag says I have DirectX11, which is the last available for Win 7. dxwebsetup throws an error and the log says I already have a newer version. Any special tricks to get OBS onto Win 7?
 
The only thing I encountered that's not stable across major Windows 10 updates is the vb-audio virtual audio devices. These get mixed up, unfortunately. Solution is to remove them before a major Windows update (these updates every half a year that increases the version number 1809->1903->1909->20xx) and reinstall them afterwards. Every real hardware is kept 1:1 for me. If it isn't for you, you have either a botched system or ancient drivers. Even the vb-audio drivers kept the same for the last Windows 10 update from 1903 to 1909, because Microsoft decided to not re-install the whole operating system for 1909 like before.

Spend your energy with making things work under Windows 10, don't spend your energy with trying to make things work under Windows 7. Issues you encounter under Windows 7 are your own, because support ended and nobody will fix Windows 7-related issues any more. Issues under Windows 10 are likely to be solved, because support is active.
 
Thanks, Koala. I may yet end up going back to Win10, we'll see. I did get through the DirectX thing by running the hundred or so updates to get my fresh disk install of 7 up to date. I haven't had a Win update really trash a computer since Win98, just seems like MS is going backwards. I'll need to learn to hold off updates until I have time to clean up after them. Since this is a single purpose machine, I really don't mind freezing it once it's working.
 
Windows 7 is no longer receiving security updates. It should be phased out of ALL online activities now.
Freezing a system once it's working is also a bad idea, especially if it's going to be online.
 
Harold said:
Windows 7 is no longer receiving security updates. It should be phased out of ALL online activities now.
Freezing a system once it's working is also a bad idea, especially if it's going to be online.
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It looks like we are forced to upgrade to the hands of windows 10 collecting every data we do on a computer... goodbye privacy. Goodbye everything.
 
Dear all,

Thank you so much for all of your suggestions / comments. My student was able to run the OBC on the computer that has Windows 7 (although i think they needed to go online to grab a file for Windows 7 for OBS to properly function). But at the end it worked :)
 
shinde Achut Ramrao said:
obs is not supporting windows 7
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OBS does run on Windows 7, even on 25.0.4 (the current release).
However, Win7 is an end-of-life product, and Jim has mentioned that OBS will be dropping support for it at some future point. But that point has not yet come, and OBS Studio still runs fine on Win7 for the moment.
 
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