Question / Help Do I need an upgrade? (Fps drops and high cpu usage)

[Renco Svorcina]

Hello.

I've been streaming League of Legends and I notice that my CPU is suffering a lot. (Goes over 70% usage when checking device manager)
I went through the forum and saw some similar posts to this one and I tweaked my settings a bit.

I am using x264 with CBR on. Bitrate is 2000 and buffer size is 2000 aswell.

I downscaled my resolution from 1080p to 720p with bilinear (fastest) thing selected and 30 frames per second.

Preset is set to veryfast.

When I get into the game I get the really annoying fps drop and it is constant. It is always dropping at least 15-20 frames in game.

Also I have no "dropped frames" in my obs. Stream health is excellent according to the twitch.

But is my cpu too weak to handle the encoding and do I need an upgrade. I would like to find a way around it untill I will be able to afford for an upgrade.

My specs are:

Amd fx x6 6100 6 cores 3.30Ghz
Nvidia gtx 750 1gb gddr5
Hyperx fury 1866mhz 8gb


And can someone tell me how do I include logs?

Thanks

 

[Renco Svorcina]

Edit: I used to have my league of legends selected on window capture instead of game capture. This did improve my fps a bit but it's still dropping

 

[Deleted member 70571]

Sync or cap frame rate. Use a faster preset if needed.

 

[Renco Svorcina]

Vsync is on if that's what you are saying, my fps is capped to 60. I will try using faster preset