Question / Help Best OBS settings for my setup?

[gledamtiusisu]

Hello guys, I've been streaming with my settings for quite some time and it's okay but I feel like I can utilize more of my GPU and less my CPU and I just don't know how. I'm mostly streaming fortnite and I know its CPU intensive and I'm gonna post my PC setup and OBS settings and everything and would like to know if there's any chance to reduce CPU usage, because when I am not streaming my game runs fine no lag no nothing, and when I stream and there's heavy stuff happening I feel like my game is running slower and I don't know why is it because of CPU or what, not that much of an FPS loss but like there's less reaction. My fortnite settings are EVERYTHING LOW and my NVIDIA settings for Fortnite are set to max performance, my windows is set to ultra performance as well, my PC is clean I dont have any background applications and such you'll see in the logs as well.
My pc config is GTX 1060 6gb ddr 5, 8gb of ram dunno which one, i5 7500 kaby lake, ssd 240gb and hdd 1 tera, both fortnite and obs runs on ssd and windows as well. Forgot to add up that I have 50download speed and 10mb of upload. Thanks in advance

 

[Narcogen]

Would need a log with a complete output session (started, issue observed, stopped) to see performance data.

 

[gledamtiusisu]

Would need a log with a complete output session (started, issue observed, stopped) to see performance data.

lemme start a test stream and ill upload that log

 

[gledamtiusisu]

https://obsproject.com/logs/122op_XAjW73Osf_
this should be the log when I did a test stream

 

[Narcogen]

Would need a log with a complete output session (started, issue observed, stopped) to see performance data.

This log does not include a complete output session; streaming was started, but not stopped, so there is no performance data to look at.

 

[gledamtiusisu]

This log does not include a complete output session; streaming was started, but not stopped, so there is no performance data to look at.

Is this the right one? : / I don't even know which is the correct one I'm bad at this sorry

 

[Narcogen]

Yes, there's an output session here:

01:17:18.892: Output 'adv_file_output': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 14 (0.1%)
01:17:18.892: ==== Recording Stop ================================================
01:17:18.892: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 14/9981 (0.1%)

No particularly significant performance issues there.

You're already using your GPU for encoding, so OBS is not using your CPU for that job.

If you're reduced Fortnite graphical settings to minimum that will reduce load on your GPU, but it won't do anything for CPU load.

If you're recording, rather than streaming, you should not be using CBR rate control, though:

01:14:32.317: [jim-nvenc: 'recording_h264'] settings:
01:14:32.317: rate_control: CBR
01:14:32.317: bitrate: 6000
01:14:32.317: cqp: 20
01:14:32.317: keyint: 250
01:14:32.317: preset: mq
01:14:32.317: profile: high
01:14:32.317: width: 1280
01:14:32.317: height: 720
01:14:32.317: 2-pass: true
01:14:32.317: b-frames: 2
01:14:32.317: lookahead: false
01:14:32.317: psycho_aq: true

If you're recording, try the simple output mode and the setting for indistinguishable quality and large file size. If that performs well, use it, if not, you can turn down the quality, but using CBR at this low bitrate is going to generate files that don't look that good. 6000 is an OK bitrate for streaming. For recording and editing later, it is really, really low.

I don't think you can do much to reduce your CPU load. You're going to have some limitations using an i5 in a single PC setup.