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    Question / Help Can't use NVENC encoder. Starting the output failed.

    I've used OBS Studio many many many times. But suddenly, when I am trying to record I get the notification with the famous "Starting the output failed. Please check the log for details. Note: If you are using the NVENC or AMD encoders, make sure your video drivers are up to date." message...
  2. N

    Question / Help OBS Drops Frames on NVENC Encoder, Shadowplay Does Not

    Hi! I know there's been questions about this before but I can't for the life of me find a fix. NVIDIA Shadowplay is great, and records my games (Star Wars Battlefront 2015 is being used as a baseline for these tests) at 1080p around 60FPS. Of course, the supported games list isn't too long and...
  3. Carto

    Bitrates and You...Turing NVENC vs X264 Medium. 4500/6000/8000 Bitrates Tested @ 1080P60

    Hey peeps, Been at it again and wanted to share another video I posted a bit ago. I wanted to figure out, depending on the bitrate you're able to use, which encoder deals better and offers the better quality. I put the new NVENC encoder up against X264 Medium and set all settings to maximum...
  4. N

    Question / Help NVENC encoder: 'streaming_h264'.

    Please help, everything worked. When broadcasting multiple channels, an error occurs. Two threads are OK, the third thread throws an error. User is now running a secondary instance of OBS! CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3330 CPU @ 3.00GHz CPU Speed: 2993MHz Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 4...
  5. N

    Question / Help Good settings?

    Hello, I try to stream on twitch using OBS (1080p 60fps or 1080p 30fps). But somehow it drops many frames (about 10-20%) and the stream looks extremely laggy. My setup: GTX 1060 OC 6GB i7 4770 16GB DDR3-RAM 12,0 mbps upload speed Can you recommend me some good settings for NVENC? Thank you...
  6. S

    Question / Help Nvenc encoder

    Right now my cpu usage goes to 50% or more and drops frames when on 60fps would using the NVENC encoder help use less cpu and make it so I can record at 60 FPS using the nvidia gt 710?
  7. surodas

    Question / Help Insane file sizes using NVENC - Windows 10

    I've been doing some testing with different settings of NVENC recently and noticed how insane my file sizes are. A friend and I both recorded ~20s of footage on the main menu of the same game using the "High Quality, Medium File Size" simple mode preset. Both at 1080p, here are our results: ME -...
  8. Carto

    OBS NVENC (Turing) vs X264 Medium Side by Side Comparison Using the FF XIV Benchmark

    I know there are quite a few of these out there, but the more info the merrier. I'll be doing more with additional benchmarks as well as various bitrates spanning from 3500 to 8000 for reference. Let me know if there's anything you guys would like to see, I've got the hardware and I'm always...
  9. Farmagud

    Question / Help Nvidia GTX 1650 NVENC Quality Question

    So I'm on the market for a new GPU to put in an OEM Dell PC, meaning I'm limited to cards under 75 watts. The 1650 just released, and I was wondering if that card would see the same quality enhancements that the other Turing GPUs received from the new NVENC APIs and the OBS 23.0 update...
  10. FearDEZ

    Question / Help x264 for some reason is worse than New Nvenc for me

    for some reason my x264 at 720p, 6000 bit-rate, fast, 60fps (ryzen 5 2nd gen) looks worse than my NEW NVENC at 720p, 6000 bit-rate, max quality 60fps (gt 730) like isn't that supposed to be the other way around, pls help. I've tried everything including (flashing the bios, driver updates...
  11. patomack

    Question / Help OBS NVENC Issues

    Hello all, I have been through quite a few threads on this issue and decided to reach out for some help. Problem: When trying to use nvenc in obs to record local video, I get the following error: Starting the output failed. Please check the log for details. Note: If you are using the NVENC...
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    Bug Report Failed to open NVENC codec: Generic error in an external library

    During a gaming session, I can record correctly my first video, and then it won't record correctly again until I reboot the game (Quake Champions). The logs show the next error: https://pastebin.com/raw/0uN6csCQ Any idea about what can be causing this issue? Thank you. EDIT: Some times I can...
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    Question / Help No GPU utilization when using nvenc. High cpu usage

    I (successfully) installed NvEnc and ffmpeg from source using this guide: https://askubuntu.com/questions/778100/how-to-install-compile-nvenc-in-ubuntu However I am unable to use ffmpeg vaapi with NvEnc enabled and can only use the default NvEnc setting of obs. Cpu utilization is 165% (400% =...
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    Question / Help GTX 1660 ti vs RTX 2060 NVENC

    The specs on the 1660 ti says that it's running the same Touring architecture as the RTX cards for it's NVENC encoder. Does that translate into it's performance/quality output as well. The RTX cards are claiming it rivals x264 medium with it's new architecture, but since the GTX 1660ti is...
  15. Gianluca Leal

    Question / Help Intermittent OBS Stuttering and lag with OBS v23 (NVNEC SDK, and NVNEC FFMPEG)

    TL;DR Since upgrading to OBS v23, I've started to encounter variably lengthed stutters and have not been able to find a solution. These issues are visible in both the new AND old implementation of NVENC. These issues were NOT present in OBS v22's NVNEC. (Skip to "the problem" for more details)...
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    Bug Report [23.0.1 nvEnc] High CPU usage by Windows User Mode Driver Framework when OBS is open

    I recently upgraded to a 2070 from a 1070 to take advantage of the new nvEnc. Prior to upgrading to the 2070 I was seeing much better CPU utilization with nvEnc and OBS.. Usually a total usage of Windows User Mode Driver Framework & OBS together using of around 6-11% CPU utilization Once I...
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    Question / Help glGetIntegerv(GL_MAX_TEXTURE_ANISOTROPY_MAX) failed (high cpu load)

    I'm having issues with OBS using a lot of cpu even when using NVENC encoding. The cpu usage seems to be 100% on 2 of my 4 cores regardless of the encoding settings for a 1366x768 stream on a Intel Xeon E3-1220v5 with a GeForce GT710 1Go GPU. I am using a Ubuntu 18.04 server with TurboVNC running...
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    Question / Help NVENC bitrate spikes - comparison to x264

    Hello there! I'm currently trying to stabilize my stream bitrate. My goal is to keep it pretty consistent and close to the input bitrate. When using x264 this works great, NVENC tends to spike a lot though. I have tried several options (low latency presets, simple mode with advanced encoder...
  19. sneaky4oe

    Question / Help remove it

    I believe I made a mistake with comparison. I will update thread once again later
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    Question / Help Using NVENC in simple mode, getting overload at idle

    I'm running update 23.0.1 (64 bit obv) with an R7 1700 + RTX 2080 (32gb RAM) and I'm sitting at streaming at 1080p60 and STILL getting encoding overloaded. https://obsproject.com/logs/DXF5f5-lPmZORRrU here is my current log Does anyone have any idea as to what might be causing the...
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