(BAT File) OBS Failed to find locale/en-us.ini (My Solution) (2025)

I'm new to OBS. Basically, I had this same problem, but I managed to solve it, myself. Now, I really don't quite understand the logic of why this works, but I wanted to put this out there since others seem to have the same problem.

As I mentioned, I'm new to OBS. Eventually, the point I want to get to is to open up my Capture device to full screen. I'm not there yet (it starts but not in full screen preview) and if I can't figure it out, I'll create another topic.

My first batch file attempt is as follows, and the error I was getting was Failed to find locale/en-us.in. Come to find out, this only occurs if I had not set the directory in any previous lines of code.

start "FURUI" "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\64bit\obs64.exe"

The method that I found works for me, is to set the directory first, THEN call OBS to open up.

cd "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\64bit\start FURUI "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\64bit\obs64.exe"

The second line can be shortened to:

start "FURUI" obs64.exe

Keep in mind which directory your particular OBS installation is installed to. Mie is in

, some others have it in

.

I hope this helps someone. I imagine for MAC users (which I'm not), the error message might also be fixed with this solution, as well.

I tried the above and it didn't work for me "maybe because I was using a different directory?"

But anyway I did find a working alternative solution for me since i installed OBS in a different directory.

cd /d "H:\username\OBS\obs-studio\bin\64bit\"
start "OBS" "H:\username\OBS\obs-studio\bin\64bit\obs64.exe"

This is my path and username, but to find the right path for you, rightclicking the properties of the OBS studio (shortcut) will show the target location.

Maybe it will help someone else too.

Albert Einstin said:

C:\Program Files\OBS Studio\bin\64bit> ./obs64 --profile C:\Users\agole\dev\Obs\OBS-ingest_2k_60fps_h264 --startstreaming
launches obs in streaming mode, fine. However, it doesn't load the profile correctly. To test it, I modified service.json, part of profile, to a bogous url, however launching reverts to profile I set through ui.
BTW, what batch utility are u using to specify the above launch? quote
start /d "C:\Program Files\obs-studio\bin\64bit" "" obs64.exe

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Have you tried using a profile launch parameter? --profile "name"