The OBS Studio black screen issue on Ubuntu Linux occurs primarily when running on Wayland display servers without PipeWire screen capture sources enabled.

Resolving OBS Black Screen Steps

1. In OBS Studio under Sources, click + and select Screen Capture (PipeWire) instead of XSHM. 2. For dual-GPU laptops, launch OBS using discrete NVIDIA graphics: __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia obs