GamePatchNote Digest
OBS Studio Patch Notes — September 24, 2025
Aggregated from Steam, cross-tracked with Battle.net coverage on GamePatchNote.
New Features
- Added a basic plugin manager
- Added opt-in automatic crash log upload for Windows and macOS
- Added Voice Activity Detection (VAD) to NVIDIA RTX Audio Effects,which improves noise suppression for speech, as well as severaloptimizations to NVIDIA Effects
- Added chair removal option for NVIDIA RTX Background Removal,allowing removal of chairs
- Added experimental Metal renderer for Apple Silicon Macs
- Added Hybrid MOV support
- Brings ProRes support on macOS and a more widely supportedHEVC/H.264 + PCM audio option to all platforms
Changes
- OBS Studio will no longer load plugins built for a newer release ofOBS to prevent future compatibility issues
- Added custom OBS widgets in preparation for larger UI updates
- Added preparations for Metal renderer (stay tuned!)
- Changed default bitrate from 2500 to 6000 Kbps
- Changed Hybrid MP4/MOV to be the default containers
- Changed the crash sentinel file location to its own subdirectory
- Improved audio deduplication logic to cover more cases of nestedscenes, groups, and multiple canvases
- Prevent audio duplication when sources are set to "Monitor andOutput" while the monitoring device is also being captured
- Updated the default settings for AMD encoders
- Improved accuracy of chapter markers in Hybrid MP4/MOV
- Re-hid the cursor in edit fields on macOS
- Improved format selection for PipeWire video capture
- Removed workarounds to prevent loading Qt 5 based plugins
- Removed the --disable-shutdown-check launch flag
- Hybrid MP4/MOV is now out of beta and has been made the defaultoutput format for new profiles
Bug Fixes
- Potentially fixed a rare crash on macOS when moving or resizing theOBS window
- Fixed a crash with SRT when using an invalid URL
- Fixed a crash when setting non-default pkt_size with SRT
- Fixed a crash in Media Source when playback starts with certainvideo files
- Fixed a UI deadlock when opening source properties from the Sourceslist when the Windows setting 'Snap mouse to default button in dialogboxes' was enabled by adding a 200ms delay before creating theproperties window
- Fixed a memory leak when trying to output Hybrid MP4 to anon-writeable location
- Fixed rare occurrence of multiview becoming blank
- Fixed SRT reconnection failures
- Fixed overflow texture rendering sRGB-awareness
- Fixed incorrect color range property setting for AMD AV1 encoder
- Fixed Hybrid MP4 file splitting not working correctly in some cases
- Fixed not being able to capture higher than 60fps with macOS ScreenCapture
- Fixed focus not displaying properly in hotkey settings on macOS
- Fixed the scrollbar appearing invisible in Light and Rachni themes
- Fixed HEVC frame priority not being set correctly in some cases,potentially causing playback errors when dropping frames
- Fixed an issue that could result in increases to output latencyafter temporary encoder stalls
- Fixed an issue where Multitrack Video could still be enabled afterswitching from a service that supports it to one that does not
- Fixed an issue where GetGroupList with obs-websocket would returnnothing
- Removed a workaround for older Qt versions that prevented docks fromloading correctly while OBS is maximized