Question / Help NVENC won't start.

[Sphaxtoast]

Hey i don't know why, but everytime i want to stream some dishonored with NVENC (because i can't with x264, my cpu blablabla, i know) it won't start and an error box pop saying that i should update my pilots (what i did with nvidia geforce experience). If anyone has an idea i would be very grateful. Thanks in advance!

Here is a log of obs : https://gist.github.com/4ecb19bf9342940d733dc0812e31b2a1

And as you can see i don't know why but this game in particular "Golf With Your Friends" won't start too but that's not my priorities...

 

[Harold]

The 950m doesn't actually support nvenc

 

[Sphaxtoast]

Oh, well that explain something. Thanks a lot!
Do you know a way i can stream Dishonored without having drop frames issues on my stream ? (twitch)

(Edit) I just check it on internet and apparently... Yes my GTX950M does supoort NVENC : "If the codename of your graphic card begins with GK (Kepler microarchitecture), GM (Maxwell microarchitecture) or GP (Pascal microarchitecture) then your graphic card does support NVENC" >>>> "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_900M_.289xxM.29_series"
Maybe i'm wrong but as far as i know, this website tell me that GTX950M support NVENC

 

[Suslik V]

The presence of the HW encoder depends on manufacturer. The additional transistors cause additional power consumption (and heat), so each manufacturer can make additional block of GPU disabled if it doesn't fit device specification due to power (or has defects). Just keep video drivers up to date, and check if the NVIDIA's shadow play can use NVENC on your PC.