Question / Help Multiple Profiles Issue

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runzu

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When I setup a stream, I like to have four separate pictures for each game that I play. (Opener, Closer, Brb, and Technical Difficulties) I thought having multiple profiles would be just the thing to do this. However, even though I followed the directions from the Help Contents, when I change one profile, it changes all of them.

I had 4 different profiles, so you can imagine my horror when I went through all of them to find they only retained what I changed last.

I have even tested this out. Creating one and putting all the scenes together. I save it. Then I went into Gen settings, changed the name, clicked the Add button, and then Ok to exit out of the settings menu. I changed one thing and saved it. When I went back to the other profile, I saw no difference between them. >_<;

Am I doing something wrong? I wish there was a way to make overwriting profiles foolproof.

Thanks for your time.
 
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secretply

Member
Profiles do not save scenes separately, only settings set in OBS. All profiles will share the same scene and sources. You can create 4 scenes with one source each then switch to that scene when you need to, or put all 4 sources in that one scene and have only one checked.
 
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runzu

New Member
Thanks. I thought the different profiles were for scenes and such. Thanks for clearing this up! Now I can plan accordingly. :)
 
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WayZHC

Member
secretply said:
Profiles do not save scenes separately, only settings set in OBS. All profiles will share the same scene and sources. You can create 4 scenes with one source each then switch to that scene when you need to, or put all 4 sources in that one scene and have only one checked.
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Don't do this (underlined) since even when they are unchecked, they are still active but not visible and will slow down the performance. Unchecking source is meant for only disabling sources temporarily like webcam while moving things around and don't want others to see it etc. It's still active but just not visible
 
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secretply

Member
Newest version destroys the source when it is unchecked and creates the source again when it's checked. If you're using an older version of OBS, then yes, don't do all 4 sources in 1 scene.
 
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