Windows 8.1 not OK?

[Joseph Zorzin]

Yes, I read the document that says OBS will require W10 release 1809. Just hoping maybe it might work on W8.1. So, just looking for a confirmation that it won't work with W8.1. I don't care to go through the trouble of trying to install it. Instead, I intend to get a new PC very soon- and a high end one for this sort of work.

 

[Joseph Zorzin]

OK, got a lot of views but no replies so I tried installing it and it won't install- said something was missing. I'll try again when I get a new high end Dell desktop with W11.

 

[Suslik V]

You always can scroll down the:

Releases · obsproject/obs-studio

OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording - obsproject/obs-studio

github.com

and back in time to find the version (under the "Assets" spoiler) that will work OK for your PC.

 

[Lawrence_SoCal]

One, due to lack of OS consumer support (ie security patches) from Micrososft, using Win7 or Win8.x for general consumer compute, including Internet, is strongly not advised (unless MS extended support contracts at very high prices and with very limited/select availability for certain enterprise or government clients)
That said, slightly older versions of OBS should work fine on Win7 as an OS
However, I have an ancient ARM based Win8.x system that was a free upgrade to Win10... and Win10 sooo much better than Win8.1 (once you get passed personal annoyance at some MS design decisions... and I get the irony as I'm avoiding Win11 for now in part due to stupid design decisions (start menu/taskbar) and not needing/benefitting from any new WIn11 features.. for now. anyway

Realize that real-time video encoding is computationally demanding. So a low-end system (regardless of OS) may struggle. Many (Most?) Win8 systems worked fine with Win10, so if PC powerful to use OBS to begin with, then I'd strongly consider looking into a free OS upgrade (presuming legit OS license), doing a full diskup backup before, just in case, of course..