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How to Add Alerts to OBS Studio with Stream Overlay
First, you need to choose an alert provider
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Published onJuly 25, 2024
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Adding alerts to your OBS Studio setup can significantly enhance your streaming experience by making it more interactive and engaging for your audience. Whether you’re celebrating new followers or thanking donors, these alerts provide real-time feedback that keeps your viewers hooked.
How do I add alerts in OBS Studio?
1. Choose and configure an alert provider
With this setup, you can have customized alerts like new followers or subscribers displayed on your stream. This makes it engaging and interactive for your audience.
2. Add the Alert Overlay to OBS Studio
This will integrate your customized alerts directly into your OBS scene, ensuring your viewers see them in real-time.
3. Test and adjust alerts
Testing ensures that your alerts are correctly set up and will appear during your live stream, giving you the confidence that everything is working as intended.
4. Troubleshoot visual issues
Disabling hardware acceleration and adjusting the source can fix issues where the alerts are not visually appearing, ensuring they show up properly during your stream.
5. Resolve audio but no visual issues for OBS alerts
Testing the URL in a browser and adjusting dimensions ensure that the alerts are correctly sized and positioned, solving issues where only audio plays without visuals.
By following these step-by-step solutions, you can effectively add and troubleshoot alerts in OBS Studio, making your streams more interactive and engaging for your audience.
For optimum streaming quality, check our guide onhow to use the OBS Studio Multipass Mode. If you want toset up a timer in OBS, the highlighted guide will provide all the information you need.
Did you that you canmake OBS only record game audio? That’s right, and it’s simpler than you think.
Should you require any additional information, check the comments section below.
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Claudiu Andone
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His abrupt interest in computers started when he saw the first Home Computer as a kid. However, his passion for Windows and everything related became obvious when he became a sys admin in a computer science high school.
With 14 years of experience in writing about everything there is to know about science and technology, Claudiu also likes rock music, chilling in the garden, and Star Wars. May the force be with you, always!
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Claudiu Andone
Windows Toubleshooting Expert
Oldtimer in the tech and science press, with 14 years of experience in writing on everything there is to know about science, technology, and Microsoft
