High CPU Usage

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berkayco

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Hello. My computer has been having a high cpu usage problem for the last 2-3 days. My CPU usage, which normally hovers around 15-20, has been going up to 60% recently. I didn't make any different settings, I'm actually well-versed in OBS. I couldn't find the reason, I want to ask your opinion. Sometimes the broadcast opens normally, sometimes there is a problem. I am using x264 encoder.
I see it under "Frames missed with rendering delay" under the statistics window, because I'm already aware of the problem with the processor.

Specs:
Intel 10400F
GTX1050 Ti
16 GB RAM
Windows 11

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Why would i do this? My processor is more powerful than GPU, and while GPU usage is 100%, my CPU usage is at 20%. When I observed today, I saw that the CPU temperature was 85 degrees during the broadcast. I think this situation is not normal, what do you think?
 
You complained about too high CPU usage, so I recommended nvenc, because nvenc removes all load from the CPU and doesn't add load on the GPU, because it is a dedicated circuit on the GPU. Nvenc will even lessen the pci-express buss load, because not the raw image data is transferred from the GPU, but the encoded data (which is 1-10% the size of the raw data).

If your CPU load or temperature is normal or not I cannot say. It depends on what other software you're running. Since encoding with the CPU is extremely resource intensive, I would say your load is normal. If you had much less load in the past, it's possible you used some hardware encoder and changed this to x264 just recently without realizing the impact. Or you used a smaller canvas and/or output resolution, and/or lower fps, so there was much less data to encode. But I will not guess. You report a too high CPU usage, and I gave a recommendation to lower CPU usage.
 
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