Question / Help High end CPU maxing out during recording

[Tawm]

I have an i7-5820K clocked at 3.3 GHz. I also have a Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2TB 7200RPM which I am recording to.
I am trying to record 1440p with CRF 20 at the Superfast preset.

The game I am running (Overwatch) is on an SSD which also runs my OS.

I feel that my CPU is powerful enough and has enough threads that I should be able to record at a slower preset or at a higher quality CRF without hitting the 100% usage cap.

What am I misunderstanding about OBS recording or the power of my machine?

EDIT: The CPU monitor at the bottom right of OBS displays around 17% during gameplay

LOG: https://gist.github.com/d96666f6fbd693fc14020a4ec0dcd4c9

 

[wessla]

Post a log.

 

[Tawm]

I'm gonna bump this

 

[wessla]

What is your total useage of GPU and CPU? Do Overwatch use all the rest?

 

[Tawm]

What is your total useage of GPU and CPU? Do Overwatch use all the rest?

Hey wessla, sorry this is kinda necroing a thread, I must have found a makeshift solution a while ago and forgot to post to this thread.

I'm once again looking to achieve 1440p60 recording (I've started another thread or two). Upon further reading, I've found that Overwatch is an incredibly well optimized game and will eat up just about all the resources (CPU and GPU) your computer can afford to give it. So I suppose I could lower some settings in game, but I feel that the graphics would MOSTLY be dependent on my GPU while encoding would be entirely CPU based.
I'll do some usage monitoring, but I figured I'd post that info in the case that you could do anything with it.

 

[wessla]

Im not sure whats going on, but first of all you have severe memory leaking and error messages.

"gs_duplicator_update_frame: Failed to update frame (887A0001)" This message is on repeat for like forever..


However i can only imagine how demanding it is to software render overwatch with your settings. I have and older computer a i5 4670k and a gefore 1060.. i can barely software render with 720p and descent settings.

Try using Main instead of High on your encoder...