Question / Help i cant find the h.264 encoder[GPU]

[Zxphr]

i only have x264 available but i dont have the gpu one..can someone help me? i try to stream but the cpu usage was too high i knew that i needed to change my encoder...
my specs:i3-4440, gtx 550 ti :D

 

[Narcogen]

The GTX 550Ti does not have a GPU encoder.

https://help.elgato.com/customer/po...ia-graphic-cards-do-support-nvenc-technology-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_500_series

 

[Agamemnus]

Your CPU does have QuickSync. It is terrible though, but you can give it a shot. You might have to enable on-board graphics in your BIOS, but depending on how your computer splits your video cards, you might just be in for a world of hurt. That's a low-power consumption computer, it might have some things disabled.

 

[koala]

QuickSync. It is terrible though, but

Please don't badmouth hardware encoders this way. No hardware encoder is "terrible". Mention them as valid alternative. It took two years to get the OBS community not badmouth hardware encoders any more but accept them as perfectly valid encoder anyone should consider to use.

It's always better to use any hardware encoder instead of x264, even the worst one, if the machine isn't able to sustain the high cpu usage x264 puts upon it. Due to previous badmouthing people outright refused to use hardware encoders. Instead, they used superfast or even ultrafast presets of x264, which will mostly result in worse quality than even the worst hardware encoder, because it combines high cpu usage (thus resulting in lags) with lower video quality than a hardware encoder.