How to use laptop dedicated GPU for encoding?

[Flipzo]

I usually stream mobile games using an Android app with no problems, I wan't to try out using OBS with my laptop instead so I can edit the overlays. I have an old K52JC (Intel i5-430M, Geforce 310m, 8GB Ram). It has an onboard graphics and dedicated Nvidia 310m gpu. When I run OBS, it looks like it's using the CPU instead of the dedicated graphics. How do I force the encoding to be done by the GPU?

When I play games, there's an Nvidia 3D settings window wherein I can choose which apps to run with the dedicated GPU, I added the main OBS executable file there and still the same thing. Is there a different OBS .exe file that does the encoding?

Thanks in advance!

 

[koala]

None of your GPUs have hardware encoder support, so you cannot "force the encoding to be done by the GPU". So CPU encoding with x264 is the only available encodder.

 

[Flipzo]

None of your GPUs have hardware encoder support, so you cannot "force the encoding to be done by the GPU". So CPU encoding with x264 is the only available encodder.

Now I get it, thanks for clarifying :)