Question / Help OBS studio Not launching in win7 32bits

[Carlos Hernandez]

Hello everyone,

I am from Central America and just downloaded the OBS STUDIO and when I click on the icon shows me a message that says: failed to initialize video "Qt platwork plugin" Windows error. It recommends to uninstall it and reinstalling it, did it , but it wont work.

What can I do? What do you recommend?

 

[onison13]

try making a bat file to launch it. Find where OBS is insalled and change the script below to make it work.

C:
cd C:\obs-studio\bin\64bit
start obs64

save this to your desktop and try to launch it that way. Let me know!

 

[Sapiens]

@onison13 He can't launch 64-bit OBS on a 32-bit system.

@Carlos Hernandez Could you please provide the full and exact error message that appears when you try to launch OBS?

 

[Carlos Hernandez]

Yes sir,

After I installed it I clicked on the icon on my desktop and it says: failed to initialize video: unspecified error.
Then appears an option from Windows to solve incompatibility problems. Then it says: this application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "windows".

And yes my computer runs win 7 32 bits.

Ps. Making a bat file didn't work.

 

[Sapiens]

What specific model of graphics card are you trying to use with OBS?

 

[Carlos Hernandez]

 

[Sapiens]

Unfortunately you don't meet the minimum requirements to run OBS.

 

[Carlos Hernandez]

Would you please let me know what are the minimum requirements that a pc should have to run the OBS?

 

[Sapiens]

At the very least you need a DirectX 10-capable GPU. For decent results you probably also want a decent quad core to handle x264 encoding (or support for a hardware encoder like Quick Sync, NVENC or VCE).