Question / Help Encoding overloaded.

[CarRoy]

Hey, I have been streaming for a few weeks now and I've been recording for about 3 months. Always used the same settings when both recording and streaming (Stream: 720p60, Recording: 1080p60) and this has always worked perfectly fine for me, but yesterday (and today) my encoding overloads all the time, which has never happened before. Now I can't even stream at 720p30 with "superfast" encoding, while a few days ago, I streamed at "faster" without any problems. For recording, I can't record at 1080p60 anymore, and the encoding stops overloading at 720p30. I have no idea whats happened and would love to get answers, thanks.

CPU: Ryzen 5 1600
GPU: GTX 1070

Log file: https://obsproject.com/logs/9w2q2oe7Ld60cOIe

 

[Narcogen]

Don't use CBR for encoding, it's generally for streaming. Use CRF or CQP rate control and a quality setting between 15 (high) and 25 (low).

You have a GPU that supports NVENC. You should use it, at least for recording. Trying to simultaneously record and stream two different quality levels on your CPU will definitely overload it.

NVENC does better with high bitrates so you can use that for recording and x264 for streaming. If your card supports 2 NVENC sessions I think you could use it for both and you should not get any overload messages.