Question / Help "High CPU usage" with every CPU scheme preset

[Elia1995]

Hello, yesterday I got a new graphics card, an nVidia ASUS ROG STRIX GTX 1060 6GB for my Twitch channel.
I tried to stream with the new version of Shadowplay "Share" but the stream automatically stops after a few seconds (YES, I set-up everything fine), so I decided to try with my good ol' OBS... started the live, went fullscreen on the game and started streaming it... "High CPU usage" red text flashes on bottom left of OBS, so I stopped, tried different CPU scheme presets and retried... it ALWAYS appeared and the FPS dropped a lot.

I can't figure out which settings I should use with this craptacular Intel i5-2320.
The games run fine and everything thanks to the new GPU, but OBS is dead, please help me because I think I must stick with this i5-2320 for a while until I can afford a new i7-4790k on which I'm very used to.

The issue DOESN'T happen when I record videos, only when I stream on either Twitch or YouTube, I even tried Facebook and Periscope and I yet get the same result...

 

[Fenrir]

You are using OBS Classic, this version has not been in development for some time. It is strongly recommended that you update to OBS Studio. Links to download can be found here: https://obsproject.com/download

Further information on why you should update (and how) can be found here: https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/how-to-easily-switch-to-obs-studio.55820/

 

[Elia1995]

It doesn't matter which software I use, I tried with OBS Studio and I still got high CPU usage, I tried both x264 and NVENC encoders, I tried any combination of settings possible but I can't find anything that makes this i5-2320 work fine... I can stream only DOS games, but what's the point in having a GTX 1060 6GB for DOS gaming ???

 

[Fenrir]

Grab a log from studio

https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/please-post-a-log-with-your-issue-heres-how.23074/

 

[DragonZeroLive]

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I am experiencing the exact same issue... came here looking for a solution. This has started seemingly overnight. I have been local recording for quite a while and all of a sudden I am forced to drop everything way way down when I have never needed to before. In an attempt to avoid the High CPU Encoding Warning

This happens when using both Classic and Studio. (I tend to use classic more because I am more familiar with it)

Here is the latest log from Classic: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/917841cfdc1c68bff8cb65b0a2ad08d3

Here is latest Studio Log getting same Issue: https://gist.github.com/ed7c2f0ca165a5b10c5ed718c53d0938

 

[Elia1995]

I have a SLIGHT better performance using NVENC instead of x264, but after 18 minutes of livestream, it dropped to 3 FPS and "High CPU usage".
I didn't stream with Studio yet.
Here's the log from OBS classic of this last stream which crashed at 18 minutes or so.

I can't "[.CODE] [/CODE]" it because I get an error of "No more than 150000 characters allowed", so I pastebinned it: https://pastebin.com/DRc9vfq9

I have no idea why it says 4 GB of RAM here "22:07:26: Physical Memory: 4095MB Total, 2702MB Free" but I guarantee that I have 8 GB of DDR3 RAM installed on this motherboard.
Proof:

 

[Fenrir]

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I am experiencing the exact same issue... came here looking for a solution. This has started seemingly overnight. I have been local recording for quite a while and all of a sudden I am forced to drop everything way way down when I have never needed to before. In an attempt to avoid the High CPU Encoding Warning

This happens when using both Classic and Studio. (I tend to use classic more because I am more familiar with it)

Here is the latest log from Classic: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/917841cfdc1c68bff8cb65b0a2ad08d3

Here is latest Studio Log getting same Issue: https://gist.github.com/ed7c2f0ca165a5b10c5ed718c53d0938

From your studio log, it looks like the GPU is maxed out. Are you capping FPS in your game? Games like ARK will just eat all available GPU to run at as high of a framerate as they can, which is a waste of system resources and means OBS won't work well since it needs GPU resources itself.

In the future, you're more than welcome to open your own thread. Two "Encoding overloaded!" issues are rarely the same, but similar enough that it gets confusing trying to troubleshoot two at the same time.

I have a SLIGHT better performance using NVENC instead of x264, but after 18 minutes of livestream, it dropped to 3 FPS and "High CPU usage".
I didn't stream with Studio yet.
Here's the log from OBS classic of this last stream which crashed at 18 minutes or so.

I can't "[.CODE] [/CODE]" it because I get an error of "No more than 150000 characters allowed", so I pastebinned it: https://pastebin.com/DRc9vfq9

I have no idea why it says 4 GB of RAM here "22:07:26: Physical Memory: 4095MB Total, 2702MB Free" but I guarantee that I have 8 GB of DDR3 RAM installed on this motherboard.
Proof:

This log is still from OBS Classic. We don't support classic anymore, grab one from Studio.

 

[Elia1995]

It seems that with Studio, the stream kinda manages to survive.
I'm still using 3100 bitrate with x264 encoder, veryfast preset, 720p at 30 fps with Bilinear downscale filter.
Yesterday I streamed for roughly 2 hours and it didn't crash and the ending video in the "past broadcasts" looks fine... a bit choppy sometimes but fine overall, it doesn't pixelate.