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Xaymar edited this page Aug 14, 2022 · 53 revisions

The System Requirements were moved to the individual releases. This page is a relic of the past now.

Minimum

Windows Linux MacOS
OS Windows 10 2004 Ubuntu 20.04
(or equivalent Distro)		 MacOS 10.15
CPUa AMD Excavator Series (or newer) Dual Core
Intel Haswell Series (or newer) Dual Core
RAM 8 GiB 6 GiB
GPU DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3
Shader Model 4
4 GiB VRAM 		OpenGL 3
Shader Model 4
3 GiB VRAM
Disk Space Around 50MB free.
OBS Studio 27.2.4
Other MSVC 2019 Redist Qt5 5.15 or newer
FFmpeg
OpenGL 4

Usable

Windows Linux MacOS
OS Windows 10 2004
Windows 11		 Ubuntu 20.04
(or equivalent Distro)		 MacOS 10.15
CPUa AMD Ryzen 1000 Series (or newer) Dual Core
Intel Skylake Series (or newer) Dual Core
RAM 8 GiB
GPU DirectX 11 / OpenGL 4
Shader Model 5
4 GiB VRAM
Disk Space Around 50MB free.
OBS Studio 27.2.4
Other MSVC 2019 Redist Qt5 5.15 or newer
FFmpeg
OpenGL 4

Recommended

Windows Linux MacOS
OS Windows 10 21H1 Ubuntu 22.04
(or equivalent Distro)		 MacOS 12
CPUa AMD Ryzen 3000 Series (or newer) Dual Core
Intel Coffee Lake Refresh Series (or newer) Dual Core
RAM 16 GiB
GPU DirectX 11 / OpenGL 4
Shader Model 5
8 GiB VRAM
Disk Space Around 50MB free.
OBS Studio Latest
Other MSVC 2019 Redist Qt5 5.15 or newer
FFmpeg
OpenGL 4

Template

Windows Linux MacOS
Minimum Recommended Minimum Recommended Minimum Recommended
OS Windows 10 2004+ Windows 10 21H1+
Windows 11 or newer		 Ubuntu 20.04+
(or equivalent Distro)		 Ubuntu 22.04+
(or equivalent Distro)		 MacOS 10.15+ MacOS 12+
CPUa AMD Excavator Series (or newer) Dual Core
Intel Haswell Series (or newer) Dual Core
 AMD Excavator Series (or newer) Dual Core
Intel Haswell Series (or newer) Dual Core
Apple M1 Series (or newer) Dual Core
RAM 4 GiB 8 GiB 4 GiB 6 GiB 4 GiB 6 GiB
GPU DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3, Shader Model 4, 4 GiB VRAM OpenGL 3, Shader Model 4, 3 GiB VRAM
Disk Space Around 50MB free.
OBS Studio 28.0
Other Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2017-2022 Qt 5 or 6
FFmpeg 4 or 5
OpenGL 3+

Notes

a. StreamFX requires the presence of the following architectures:

  • x86: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, BMI, BMI2, FMA, F16C, MOVBE, PCLMUL, POPCNT
  • ARM: HardFloat, Neon


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