System Requirements

System Requirements are now present on each new release, instead of being tied to this page. This page is a relic of the past now and only used as a template for Releases.

		Windows	Ubuntu, Debian, ...	MacOS
OS	Minimum	Windows 10 21H2 (or newer)	Ubuntu 20.04 (or newer), (or equivalent Distro)	MacOS 10.15 (or newer)
	Recommended	Windows 10 21H2 (or newer), Windows 11 (or newer)	Ubuntu 22.04 (or newer), or equivalent Distro	MacOS 12 (or newer)
CPU	Minimum	Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Excavator Series, Intel Haswell Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE
				Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series
	Recommended	Any x86-64-v3 compatible: AMD Zen 2 Series, Intel Comet Lake Series Required Instruction Sets: x86-64-v2, AVX, BMI1, BMI2, F16C, FMA, MOVBE
				Any ARM64-v8.5-A compatible: Apple M1 Series
Memory (RAM)	Minimum	4 GiB (free)
	Recommended	8 GiB (free)	6 GiB (free)
Video (GPU)	Minimum	DirectX 11 / OpenGL 3 capable, Shader Model 4, 4 GiB VRAM (total)
	Recommended	DirectX 12 / OpenGL 4 capable, Shader Model 5, 6 GiB VRAM (total)
Disk Space	Minimum	~50 MiB (free)
	Recommended	~50 MiB (free)
OBS Version	Minimum	28.0.0-rc1
	Recommended	28.0.0-rc1 or Latest
Other		Microsoft Visual C/C++ Redistributable 2017-2022	Qt for obs-studio FFmpeg for obs-studio