Question / Help Graphics Card Vs Processor - which affects what settings?

[Spirit]

Hello everyone,

I would like to ask your help in determining the best quality stream I can hope to broadcast.

I will mainly be streaming Warcraft 3, so the game itself will not require too much resources at all.

My specs:
HP Pavilion dv6-6b55eg laptop
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
- 8 GB RAM
- Intel HD 3000 (integrated... it is switchable with Radeon HD 6770M but OBS doesn't seem to support switchables for now)
- 1366 x 768 resolution

So the weakest link here is the integrated graphics card.

I mainly just want to know what settings in OBS are more affected by the graphics card, and what are more affected by the processor?
So what settings should I decrease for the sake of the graphics card, and what other settings can I increase for a better quality stream?

Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

 

[Lain]

OBS supports switchable laptops, just not AMD switchable laptops. AMD lacks proper drivers to handle it, where as nvidias work fine.

You system should be okay for streaming warcraft other than that though.