The Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling ("HAGS") feature added with Windows 10 is currently known to cause performance and capture issues with OBS, games and overlay tools. It's an experimental feature and we recommend disabling it via
this screen or
these instructions.
You are running an old version of OBS Studio (30.1.2). Please update to version 30.2.3 by going to Help -> Check for updates in OBS or by downloading the latest installer from the
downloads page and running it.
You are running Windows 11 23H2, which will be supported by Microsoft until November 2025.
You are running OBS in Portable Mode. This means that OBS will store its settings with the executable. This is useful if you want to run OBS from a flash drive or other removable media.