OBS Studio Your GPU may not be supported error comes up every time. I have a Windows 2008 R2 Server. See log reports below.
~~Log file~~
12:45:53.712: CPU Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz
12:45:53.712: CPU Speed: 3092MHz
12:45:53.712: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 4
12:45:53.712: Physical Memory: 2047MB Total, 338MB Free
12:45:53.712: Windows Version: 6.1 Build 7601 (revision: 19110; 64-bit)
12:45:53.712: Running as administrator: true
12:45:53.712: Aero is Disabled
12:45:53.712: Portable mode: false
12:45:53.721: OBS 18.0.1 (64bit, windows)
12:45:53.721: ---------------------------------
12:45:53.722: ---------------------------------
12:45:53.722: audio settings reset:
12:45:53.722: samples per sec: 44100
12:45:53.722: speakers: 2
12:45:53.723: ---------------------------------
12:45:53.723: Initializing D3D11..
12:45:53.723: Available Video Adapters:
12:45:53.726: Adapter 1: Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM)
12:45:53.726: Dedicated VRAM: 33554432
12:45:53.726: Shared VRAM: 33554432
12:45:53.726: output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1364, 768}, attached=true
12:45:53.730: Loading up D3D11 on adapter Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM) (0)
12:45:53.732: device_create (D3D11): Failed to create device (887A0004)
12:45:53.732: Failed to initialize obs video (-2) with graphics_module='libobs-d3d11.dll', retrying with graphics_module='libobs-opengl.dll'
12:45:53.734: OpenGL extension ARB_pixel_format is required
12:45:53.734: gl_platform_create failed
12:45:53.734: device_create (GL) failed
12:45:53.784: Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drivers may need to be updated.
12:45:59.293: Freeing OBS context data
12:45:59.294: == Profiler Results =============================
12:45:59.294: run_program_init: 7078 ms
12:45:59.294: ┣OBSApp::AppInit: 2.4 ms
12:45:59.294: ┃ ┗OBSApp::InitLocale: 0.836 ms
12:45:59.294: ┗OBSApp::OBSInit: 1561.59 ms
12:45:59.294: ┣obs_startup: 0.831 ms
12:45:59.294: ┗OBSBasic::OBSInit: 62.453 ms
12:45:59.294: ┣OBSBasic::InitBasicConfig: 0.601 ms
12:45:59.294: ┣OBSBasic::ResetAudio: 0.182 ms
12:45:59.294: ┗OBSBasic::ResetVideo: 61.617 ms
12:45:59.294: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=0.001 ms, median=0.002 ms, max=0.072 ms, 99th percentile=0.034 ms, 100% below 25 ms
12:45:59.294: audio_thread(Audio): min=0.001 ms, median=0.006 ms, max=9.599 ms, 99th percentile=0.024 ms
12:45:59.294: =================================================
12:45:59.294: == Profiler Time Between Calls ==================
12:45:59.294: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=24.081 ms, median=25 ms, max=50.071 ms, 94.0367% within ±2% of 25 ms (1.37615% lower, 4.58716% higher)
12:45:59.294: =================================================
12:45:59.296: Number of memory leaks: 154
~~Log file~~
12:45:53.712: CPU Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.10GHz
12:45:53.712: CPU Speed: 3092MHz
12:45:53.712: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 4
12:45:53.712: Physical Memory: 2047MB Total, 338MB Free
12:45:53.712: Windows Version: 6.1 Build 7601 (revision: 19110; 64-bit)
12:45:53.712: Running as administrator: true
12:45:53.712: Aero is Disabled
12:45:53.712: Portable mode: false
12:45:53.721: OBS 18.0.1 (64bit, windows)
12:45:53.721: ---------------------------------
12:45:53.722: ---------------------------------
12:45:53.722: audio settings reset:
12:45:53.722: samples per sec: 44100
12:45:53.722: speakers: 2
12:45:53.723: ---------------------------------
12:45:53.723: Initializing D3D11..
12:45:53.723: Available Video Adapters:
12:45:53.726: Adapter 1: Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM)
12:45:53.726: Dedicated VRAM: 33554432
12:45:53.726: Shared VRAM: 33554432
12:45:53.726: output 1: pos={0, 0}, size={1364, 768}, attached=true
12:45:53.730: Loading up D3D11 on adapter Parallels Display Adapter (WDDM) (0)
12:45:53.732: device_create (D3D11): Failed to create device (887A0004)
12:45:53.732: Failed to initialize obs video (-2) with graphics_module='libobs-d3d11.dll', retrying with graphics_module='libobs-opengl.dll'
12:45:53.734: OpenGL extension ARB_pixel_format is required
12:45:53.734: gl_platform_create failed
12:45:53.734: device_create (GL) failed
12:45:53.784: Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drivers may need to be updated.
12:45:59.293: Freeing OBS context data
12:45:59.294: == Profiler Results =============================
12:45:59.294: run_program_init: 7078 ms
12:45:59.294: ┣OBSApp::AppInit: 2.4 ms
12:45:59.294: ┃ ┗OBSApp::InitLocale: 0.836 ms
12:45:59.294: ┗OBSApp::OBSInit: 1561.59 ms
12:45:59.294: ┣obs_startup: 0.831 ms
12:45:59.294: ┗OBSBasic::OBSInit: 62.453 ms
12:45:59.294: ┣OBSBasic::InitBasicConfig: 0.601 ms
12:45:59.294: ┣OBSBasic::ResetAudio: 0.182 ms
12:45:59.294: ┗OBSBasic::ResetVideo: 61.617 ms
12:45:59.294: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=0.001 ms, median=0.002 ms, max=0.072 ms, 99th percentile=0.034 ms, 100% below 25 ms
12:45:59.294: audio_thread(Audio): min=0.001 ms, median=0.006 ms, max=9.599 ms, 99th percentile=0.024 ms
12:45:59.294: =================================================
12:45:59.294: == Profiler Time Between Calls ==================
12:45:59.294: obs_hotkey_thread(25 ms): min=24.081 ms, median=25 ms, max=50.071 ms, 94.0367% within ±2% of 25 ms (1.37615% lower, 4.58716% higher)
12:45:59.294: =================================================
12:45:59.296: Number of memory leaks: 154