GuiDaFunkyMan
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Hi, I also have that issue and it's very annoying because it also prevents me from using my game capture properly. Indeed, as soon as I plug in the USB cable, OBS crashes. I can't do anything. :/
High CPU usage in windows 11 24h2
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GuiDaFunkyMan
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I searched for info and It seems there are conflicts between the 24h2 update and Nvidia graphic cards, especially if you have an old gen one like me. The best thing to do is to go back to the previous build and wait for improvements.
seansheehanba
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May have found a fix.
So I went to Settings - Output - Recording and changed my video encoder from x264 to NVIDIA NVENC H.264. It seems to have solved the issue. Now at 2% CPU rather than 12% CPU (even when I had the same bitrate on both)
Could this cause any problems I've not thought of?
So I went to Settings - Output - Recording and changed my video encoder from x264 to NVIDIA NVENC H.264. It seems to have solved the issue. Now at 2% CPU rather than 12% CPU (even when I had the same bitrate on both)
Could this cause any problems I've not thought of?
da_bu11et_007
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Since Win 11 24h2 I have been experiencing high CPU usage. I multistream using the combination of multistream (not the aitum one) and Tiktok live studio and my CPU usage use to be in the 0.4% range streaming to 5 channels. Since the update I now experience OBS usage in excess of 25%. I also experience issues where certain instances of scenes will freeze games, which has not happened before. These errors have been specific to after the win 11 24h2 update. Will I be able to find old logs showing before and after.
mici1708
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Beacouse x264 use CPU for encoding, NVIDIA NVENC H.264 use GPU for encoding.
TheStonedSpider
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Could it be that maybe OBS is now actually showing the correct CPU usage when before it was so obv it didn't esp when it showed 0.0% usage for me when theres no way in ..... that with all the crap i got going on, on my stream that OBS is only using 0.0%. I think OBS is now showing the actual correct CPU usage. Barring those that are spiking to over 25% on modern CPUS with higher clock speeds. That's a little high.
Mine is hovering around 15-20% which I feel is around the correct range with the crap I've got going on my stream. Oh and BTW OBS is now showing the incorrect GPU usage lol. the cpu usage and the gpu usage have just been reversed. gpu used to be correct, now cpu. this is funny.
Mine is hovering around 15-20% which I feel is around the correct range with the crap I've got going on my stream. Oh and BTW OBS is now showing the incorrect GPU usage lol. the cpu usage and the gpu usage have just been reversed. gpu used to be correct, now cpu. this is funny.
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prgmitchell
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A change in how this information is reported by Windows (which is where the number in OBS comes from) is what makes the most sense.
koala
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This is what I see as well. I run monitoring software on my system with a long history, and it shows since 24h2 the general cpu usage is displayed much higher. Since I didn't change my usage profile at the same time, the real cpu usage is the same. It's just displayed now with higher numbers. It's purely a display thing.
24H2 was installed on October, since then CPU usage is reported 10 times higher. No actual and no perceived performance difference, of course. Just a matter of display. And it's definitely not an OBS issue, since I run OBS just sporadically for a short amount of time (1-2 hours), not daily, while my computer is switched on almost every day except for the night.