Question / Help Your GPU may not be supported

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tehmina

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I want to go live on facebook with pre recorded video. someone told me and even I also searched for and concluded OBS the best tool to fullfil my objective. I downloaded it and install "vc2017redist_x64" and "vcredist_x86" before intalling "OBS-Studio-23.1-Full-Installer-x64". I am using 64-bit windows 7. When I run it after installation it produced an error stating..."Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drivers may need to be updated." Here are two screenshots which may help to understand my issue.
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please someone help me here as I have spent a lot of time to run OBS on my desktop pc. Thanks in advance.
 
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scwfan06

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Always funny to see how many people think that they can just start streaming no matter how old their hardware is.
BTW. That's not even a graphics card. It's an integrated GPU about 15 years old.
 
Narcogen

Narcogen

Active Member
I doubt it. The very earliest releases of OBS cross-platform came out in 2014 when your 6150 was already ten years old. It's a non-discrete graphics coprocessor put on motherboards back in 2004. It doesn't support anything higher than DirectX 10, Shader model 3, and offers no hardware video decoding or encoding features.

It was too old and wasn't strong enough to do this work when OBS was first released, and requirements for streaming and recording haven't gotten any lighter.

You might try the (now unsupported) OBS Classic, as it goes back to 2013 and might once have worked on that hardware, but I wouldn't bet on it, and you'd not be able to get help with any problems you encounter trying to make it work.

https://github.com/jp9000/obs/releases?after=v0.584b
 
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junsaturay

New Member
I have been using OBS Studio for a sometime now. I just reinstalled Ubuntu Studio 20.04 and now I get the error message "

Failed to initialize video. Your GPU may not be supported, or your graphics drivers may need to be updated." I purged the preinstalled OBS-Studion and reinstalled as suggested via command line...
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:obsproject/obs-studio
sudo apt install obs-studio

I still get the error message
 
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R1CH

Forum Admin
Developer
This is the Windows support forum. You might want to post in the Linux forum.
 
mnapuran

mnapuran

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I get this message also... OBS 32-bit works perfectly fine, but OBS 64-bit comes up with this error.

And for some reason OBS-32 26.0.2, even though it has "virtual camera" built on. When I enable, none of the other windows app see it as an option. That's why I thought I needed to possibly use OBS 64-bit
 
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