Failed to Initialize Service

[jennyfurhh]

Hello, I was working on installing closed captions (the one from ratwithacompiler) and I have used this before for a while and it worked really well. I had to reinstall because I had to wipe my pc. When I was dragging the folder, I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing and I believe I dragged it into my obs-plugins folder by accident rather than the obs-studio folder because I'm just not seeing it in the obs-studio folder (I don't know what's supposed to/normally is in there). So I tried deleting the file with today's date on it... Then I tried to launch OBS and that's when I got the "Failed to Initialize Service" error. I googled and the *only* result I'm seeing is to uninstall and reinstall. Is that my only option? I haven't backed up my scenes recently... so I'm going to lose that, right? Any thoughts or suggestions would help, thank you!

 

[koala]

The OBS config is stored independently from the app executables, so you can always uninstall and reinstall OBS without losing your config.

 

[bigbodyoperations]

hi bros wanted to chime in as i had this issue with my obs and found this forum as a result

i was able to boot obs without reinstalling by navigating to my obs config; Win + R, type %appdata%, pres Enter, then open the obs-studio folder

within that folder i clicked the folder titled 'updates', then double clicked 'updater' - this updated my obs to the current version and i was then able to launch obs without issue

: D

 

[auntietan]

hi bros wanted to chime in as i had this issue with my obs and found this forum as a result

i was able to boot obs without reinstalling by navigating to my obs config; Win + R, type %appdata%, pres Enter, then open the obs-studio folder

within that folder i clicked the folder titled 'updates', then double clicked 'updater' - this updated my obs to the current version and i was then able to launch obs without issue

: D

This fixed my issue!! Thank you so much for posting!!