

To record your desktop with OBS, select the "Display Capture" option from the list. To add a source, all you have to do is click on the plus (+) icon on the Sources window at the bottom of OBS. If you want to add more sources, like your webcam feed, then you can add more scenes too later on. The default scene takes up the entire screen, which means that if you choose to record your entire desktop, it will simply fill up the entire video. The only thing that OBS selects by default is the scene.

The display window will be entirely black as you will not have selected a source yet. After rejecting the offer for help, you will be greeted with the main OBS screen. Setting things up is not hard at all so I would suggest doing it manually instead. Essentially, this will allow you to quickly set up certain things but you will not have as much control over the setup as when doing things manually. When you first fire up OBS, you will be asked whether you wish to run the setup wizard or not.

OBS is open-source, free, and works across Windows 7, 8, and 10. The first step to recording your desktop with OBS is to download the software from the official page.
