I'm going to be quick and get to the point. I downloaded After effects yesterday and since then Obs has high gpu utilization even when I'm not recording anything.
I've reinstalled Obs, uninstalled after effects and still when I'm recording obs uses 70% of my gpu while my game is using about 40%.
Here's the log files
09:46:57.676: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz
09:46:57.677: CPU Speed: 3100MHz
09:46:57.677: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 4
09:46:57.677: Physical Memory: 8130MB Total, 2997MB Free
09:46:57.677: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 19043 (release: 2009; revision: 1202; 64-bit)
09:46:57.677: Running as administrator: true
09:46:57.677: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
09:46:57.677: Windows 10 Gaming Features:
09:46:57.677: Game Bar: Off
09:46:57.677: Game DVR: Off
09:46:57.677: Game DVR Background Recording: Off
09:46:57.677: Game Mode: On
09:46:57.681: Sec. Software Status:
09:46:57.683: Microsoft Defender Antivirus: enabled (AV)
09:46:57.683: Windows Firewall: enabled (FW)
09:46:57.684: Current Date/Time: 2021-10-02, 09:46:57
09:46:57.684: Browser Hardware Acceleration: true
09:46:57.684: Portable mode: false
09:47:02.594: OBS 27.1.1 (64-bit, windows)
09:47:02.594: ---------------------------------
09:47:02.600: ---------------------------------
09:47:02.600: audio settings reset:
09:47:02.600: samples per sec: 48000
09:47:02.600: speakers: 2
09:47:02.613: ---------------------------------
09:47:02.613: Initializing D3D11...
09:47:02.613: Available Video Adapters:
09:47:02.623: Adapter 0: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
09:47:02.623: Dedicated VRAM: 4213178368
09:47:02.623: Shared VRAM: 4262815744
09:47:02.623: PCI ID: 10de:1c82
09:47:02.624: Driver Version: 30.0.14.7212
09:47:02.624: output 0: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true, refresh=60, name=DELL P2419H
09:47:02.629: Loading up D3D11 on adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (0)
09:47:02.835: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: b000
09:47:02.835: DXGI increase maximum frame latency success
09:47:02.835: D3D11 GPU priority setup success
09:47:04.013: ---------------------------------
09:47:04.013: video settings reset:
09:47:04.013: base resolution: 1920x1080
09:47:04.013: output resolution: 1920x1080
09:47:04.013: downscale filter: Bicubic
09:47:04.013: fps: 60/1
09:47:04.013: format: NV12
09:47:04.013: YUV mode: 709/Partial
09:47:04.014: NV12 texture support enabled
09:47:04.017: Audio monitoring device:
09:47:04.017: name: Default
09:47:04.017: id: default
09:47:04.017: ---------------------------------
09:47:04.018: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/chrome_elf.dll', not an OBS plugin
09:47:04.075: [CoreAudio encoder]: Adding CoreAudio AAC encoder
09:47:04.088: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-captions.dll'
09:47:04.114: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-ouput-ui.dll'
09:47:04.783: [AMF] Unable to load 'amfrt64.dll', error code 126.
09:47:04.787: [AMF] AMF Test failed due to one or more errors.
09:47:04.788: Failed to initialize module 'enc-amf.dll'
09:47:04.879: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libcef.dll', not an OBS plugin
09:47:04.895: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libEGL.dll', not an OBS plugin
09:47:04.897: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libGLESv2.dll', not an OBS plugin
09:47:04.935: [obs-browser]: Version 2.16.2
09:47:04.935: [obs-browser]: CEF Version 75.1.16+g16a67c4+chromium-75.0.3770.100
09:47:04.981: NVENC supported
09:47:05.011: [noise suppress]: NVIDIA RTX denoiser disabled, redistributable not found
09:47:05.367: VLC found, VLC video source enabled
09:47:05.412: A DeckLink iterator could not be created. The DeckLink drivers may not be installed
09:47:05.414: No blackmagic support
09:47:05.475: ---------------------------------
09:47:05.475: Loaded Modules:
09:47:05.475: win-wasapi.dll
09:47:05.475: win-mf.dll
09:47:05.475: win-dshow.dll
09:47:05.475: win-decklink.dll
09:47:05.475: win-capture.dll
09:47:05.475: vlc-video.dll
09:47:05.475: text-freetype2.dll
09:47:05.475: rtmp-services.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-x264.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-vst.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-transitions.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-text.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-qsv11.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-outputs.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-filters.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-ffmpeg.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-browser.dll
09:47:05.475: image-source.dll
09:47:05.475: frontend-tools.dll
09:47:05.475: enc-amf.dll
09:47:05.475: decklink-ouput-ui.dll
09:47:05.475: decklink-captions.dll
09:47:05.475: coreaudio-encoder.dll
09:47:05.475: ---------------------------------
09:47:05.475: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
09:47:05.476: obs-data.c: [obs_data_create_from_json] Failed reading json string (-1): wrong arguments
09:47:05.502: All scene data cleared
09:47:05.502: ------------------------------------------------
09:47:05.632: WASAPI: Device 'VoiceMeeter Output (VB-Audio VoiceMeeter VAIO)' [44100 Hz] initialized
09:47:05.632: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux'
09:47:05.682: WASAPI: Device 'VoiceMeeter Aux Output (VB-Audio VoiceMeeter AUX VAIO)' [44100 Hz] initialized
09:47:05.682: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux 2'
09:47:05.698: WASAPI: Device 'CABLE Output (VB-Audio Virtual Cable)' [44100 Hz] initialized
09:47:05.698: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux 3'
09:47:05.723: adding 21 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 21 milliseconds (source: Mic/Aux 2)
09:47:05.723:
09:47:05.751: WASAPI: Device 'Microphone (EZ Mic Virtual microphone)' [44100 Hz] initialized
09:47:05.751: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux 4'
09:47:05.766: adding 21 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 42 milliseconds (source: Mic/Aux 4)
09:47:05.766:
09:47:13.994: Switched to scene 'Scene'
09:47:13.995: ------------------------------------------------
09:47:13.995: Loaded scenes:
09:47:13.995: - scene 'Scene':
09:47:13.995: - source: 'Game Capture' (game_capture)
09:47:13.995: ------------------------------------------------
09:47:57.691: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] Activate hotkey pressed
09:47:57.710: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] attempting to hook process: GenshinImpact.exe
09:47:57.740: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] d3d11 shared texture capture successful
09:47:57.758: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] shared texture capture successful
09:47:57.846: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] Activate hotkey pressed
09:47:57.849: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] capture stopped
09:47:57.851: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] attempting to hook process: GenshinImpact.exe
09:47:57.862: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] d3d11 shared texture capture successful
09:47:57.868: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] shared texture capture successful
09:48:05.906: [jim-nvenc: 'recording_h264'] settings:
09:48:05.906: rate_control: CBR
09:48:05.906: bitrate: 6000
09:48:05.906: cqp: 20
09:48:05.906: keyint: 120
09:48:05.906: preset: hq
09:48:05.906: profile: high
09:48:05.906: width: 1920
09:48:05.906: height: 1080
09:48:05.906: 2-pass: false
09:48:05.906: b-frames: 2
09:48:05.906: lookahead: false
09:48:05.906: psycho_aq: true
09:48:05.906:
09:48:05.965: [CoreAudio AAC: 'Track3']: settings:
09:48:05.965: mode: AAC
09:48:05.965: bitrate: 160
09:48:05.965: sample rate: 48000
09:48:05.965: cbr: on
09:48:05.965: output buffer: 1536
09:48:05.968: [CoreAudio AAC: 'Track4']: settings:
09:48:05.968: mode: AAC
09:48:05.968: bitrate: 160
09:48:05.968: sample rate: 48000
09:48:05.968: cbr: on
09:48:05.968: output buffer: 1536
09:48:05.971: [CoreAudio AAC: 'Track5']: settings:
09:48:05.971: mode: AAC
09:48:05.971: bitrate: 160
09:48:05.971: sample rate: 48000
09:48:05.971: cbr: on
09:48:05.971: output buffer: 1536
09:48:05.974: [CoreAudio AAC: 'Track6']: settings:
09:48:05.974: mode: AAC
09:48:05.974: bitrate: 160
09:48:05.974: sample rate: 48000
09:48:05.974: cbr: on
09:48:05.974: output buffer: 1536
09:48:05.988: ==== Replay Buffer Start ===========================================
09:48:33.751: Output 'Replay Buffer': stopping
09:48:33.751: Output 'Replay Buffer': Total frames output: 1644
09:48:33.751: Output 'Replay Buffer': Total drawn frames: 1332 (1666 attempted)
09:48:33.751: Output 'Replay Buffer': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 334 (20.0%)
09:48:33.758: ==== Replay Buffer Stop ============================================
09:48:33.758: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 424/1666 (25.5%)
I've reinstalled Obs, uninstalled after effects and still when I'm recording obs uses 70% of my gpu while my game is using about 40%.
Here's the log files
09:46:57.676: CPU Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz
09:46:57.677: CPU Speed: 3100MHz
09:46:57.677: Physical Cores: 4, Logical Cores: 4
09:46:57.677: Physical Memory: 8130MB Total, 2997MB Free
09:46:57.677: Windows Version: 10.0 Build 19043 (release: 2009; revision: 1202; 64-bit)
09:46:57.677: Running as administrator: true
09:46:57.677: Aero is Enabled (Aero is always on for windows 8 and above)
09:46:57.677: Windows 10 Gaming Features:
09:46:57.677: Game Bar: Off
09:46:57.677: Game DVR: Off
09:46:57.677: Game DVR Background Recording: Off
09:46:57.677: Game Mode: On
09:46:57.681: Sec. Software Status:
09:46:57.683: Microsoft Defender Antivirus: enabled (AV)
09:46:57.683: Windows Firewall: enabled (FW)
09:46:57.684: Current Date/Time: 2021-10-02, 09:46:57
09:46:57.684: Browser Hardware Acceleration: true
09:46:57.684: Portable mode: false
09:47:02.594: OBS 27.1.1 (64-bit, windows)
09:47:02.594: ---------------------------------
09:47:02.600: ---------------------------------
09:47:02.600: audio settings reset:
09:47:02.600: samples per sec: 48000
09:47:02.600: speakers: 2
09:47:02.613: ---------------------------------
09:47:02.613: Initializing D3D11...
09:47:02.613: Available Video Adapters:
09:47:02.623: Adapter 0: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
09:47:02.623: Dedicated VRAM: 4213178368
09:47:02.623: Shared VRAM: 4262815744
09:47:02.623: PCI ID: 10de:1c82
09:47:02.624: Driver Version: 30.0.14.7212
09:47:02.624: output 0: pos={0, 0}, size={1920, 1080}, attached=true, refresh=60, name=DELL P2419H
09:47:02.629: Loading up D3D11 on adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (0)
09:47:02.835: D3D11 loaded successfully, feature level used: b000
09:47:02.835: DXGI increase maximum frame latency success
09:47:02.835: D3D11 GPU priority setup success
09:47:04.013: ---------------------------------
09:47:04.013: video settings reset:
09:47:04.013: base resolution: 1920x1080
09:47:04.013: output resolution: 1920x1080
09:47:04.013: downscale filter: Bicubic
09:47:04.013: fps: 60/1
09:47:04.013: format: NV12
09:47:04.013: YUV mode: 709/Partial
09:47:04.014: NV12 texture support enabled
09:47:04.017: Audio monitoring device:
09:47:04.017: name: Default
09:47:04.017: id: default
09:47:04.017: ---------------------------------
09:47:04.018: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/chrome_elf.dll', not an OBS plugin
09:47:04.075: [CoreAudio encoder]: Adding CoreAudio AAC encoder
09:47:04.088: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-captions.dll'
09:47:04.114: Failed to load 'en-US' text for module: 'decklink-ouput-ui.dll'
09:47:04.783: [AMF] Unable to load 'amfrt64.dll', error code 126.
09:47:04.787: [AMF] AMF Test failed due to one or more errors.
09:47:04.788: Failed to initialize module 'enc-amf.dll'
09:47:04.879: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libcef.dll', not an OBS plugin
09:47:04.895: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libEGL.dll', not an OBS plugin
09:47:04.897: Skipping module '../../obs-plugins/64bit/libGLESv2.dll', not an OBS plugin
09:47:04.935: [obs-browser]: Version 2.16.2
09:47:04.935: [obs-browser]: CEF Version 75.1.16+g16a67c4+chromium-75.0.3770.100
09:47:04.981: NVENC supported
09:47:05.011: [noise suppress]: NVIDIA RTX denoiser disabled, redistributable not found
09:47:05.367: VLC found, VLC video source enabled
09:47:05.412: A DeckLink iterator could not be created. The DeckLink drivers may not be installed
09:47:05.414: No blackmagic support
09:47:05.475: ---------------------------------
09:47:05.475: Loaded Modules:
09:47:05.475: win-wasapi.dll
09:47:05.475: win-mf.dll
09:47:05.475: win-dshow.dll
09:47:05.475: win-decklink.dll
09:47:05.475: win-capture.dll
09:47:05.475: vlc-video.dll
09:47:05.475: text-freetype2.dll
09:47:05.475: rtmp-services.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-x264.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-vst.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-transitions.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-text.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-qsv11.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-outputs.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-filters.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-ffmpeg.dll
09:47:05.475: obs-browser.dll
09:47:05.475: image-source.dll
09:47:05.475: frontend-tools.dll
09:47:05.475: enc-amf.dll
09:47:05.475: decklink-ouput-ui.dll
09:47:05.475: decklink-captions.dll
09:47:05.475: coreaudio-encoder.dll
09:47:05.475: ---------------------------------
09:47:05.475: ==== Startup complete ===============================================
09:47:05.476: obs-data.c: [obs_data_create_from_json] Failed reading json string (-1): wrong arguments
09:47:05.502: All scene data cleared
09:47:05.502: ------------------------------------------------
09:47:05.632: WASAPI: Device 'VoiceMeeter Output (VB-Audio VoiceMeeter VAIO)' [44100 Hz] initialized
09:47:05.632: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux'
09:47:05.682: WASAPI: Device 'VoiceMeeter Aux Output (VB-Audio VoiceMeeter AUX VAIO)' [44100 Hz] initialized
09:47:05.682: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux 2'
09:47:05.698: WASAPI: Device 'CABLE Output (VB-Audio Virtual Cable)' [44100 Hz] initialized
09:47:05.698: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux 3'
09:47:05.723: adding 21 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 21 milliseconds (source: Mic/Aux 2)
09:47:05.723:
09:47:05.751: WASAPI: Device 'Microphone (EZ Mic Virtual microphone)' [44100 Hz] initialized
09:47:05.751: [Loaded global audio device]: 'Mic/Aux 4'
09:47:05.766: adding 21 milliseconds of audio buffering, total audio buffering is now 42 milliseconds (source: Mic/Aux 4)
09:47:05.766:
09:47:13.994: Switched to scene 'Scene'
09:47:13.995: ------------------------------------------------
09:47:13.995: Loaded scenes:
09:47:13.995: - scene 'Scene':
09:47:13.995: - source: 'Game Capture' (game_capture)
09:47:13.995: ------------------------------------------------
09:47:57.691: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] Activate hotkey pressed
09:47:57.710: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] attempting to hook process: GenshinImpact.exe
09:47:57.740: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] d3d11 shared texture capture successful
09:47:57.758: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] shared texture capture successful
09:47:57.846: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] Activate hotkey pressed
09:47:57.849: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] capture stopped
09:47:57.851: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] attempting to hook process: GenshinImpact.exe
09:47:57.862: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] d3d11 shared texture capture successful
09:47:57.868: [game-capture: 'Game Capture'] shared texture capture successful
09:48:05.906: [jim-nvenc: 'recording_h264'] settings:
09:48:05.906: rate_control: CBR
09:48:05.906: bitrate: 6000
09:48:05.906: cqp: 20
09:48:05.906: keyint: 120
09:48:05.906: preset: hq
09:48:05.906: profile: high
09:48:05.906: width: 1920
09:48:05.906: height: 1080
09:48:05.906: 2-pass: false
09:48:05.906: b-frames: 2
09:48:05.906: lookahead: false
09:48:05.906: psycho_aq: true
09:48:05.906:
09:48:05.965: [CoreAudio AAC: 'Track3']: settings:
09:48:05.965: mode: AAC
09:48:05.965: bitrate: 160
09:48:05.965: sample rate: 48000
09:48:05.965: cbr: on
09:48:05.965: output buffer: 1536
09:48:05.968: [CoreAudio AAC: 'Track4']: settings:
09:48:05.968: mode: AAC
09:48:05.968: bitrate: 160
09:48:05.968: sample rate: 48000
09:48:05.968: cbr: on
09:48:05.968: output buffer: 1536
09:48:05.971: [CoreAudio AAC: 'Track5']: settings:
09:48:05.971: mode: AAC
09:48:05.971: bitrate: 160
09:48:05.971: sample rate: 48000
09:48:05.971: cbr: on
09:48:05.971: output buffer: 1536
09:48:05.974: [CoreAudio AAC: 'Track6']: settings:
09:48:05.974: mode: AAC
09:48:05.974: bitrate: 160
09:48:05.974: sample rate: 48000
09:48:05.974: cbr: on
09:48:05.974: output buffer: 1536
09:48:05.988: ==== Replay Buffer Start ===========================================
09:48:33.751: Output 'Replay Buffer': stopping
09:48:33.751: Output 'Replay Buffer': Total frames output: 1644
09:48:33.751: Output 'Replay Buffer': Total drawn frames: 1332 (1666 attempted)
09:48:33.751: Output 'Replay Buffer': Number of lagged frames due to rendering lag/stalls: 334 (20.0%)
09:48:33.758: ==== Replay Buffer Stop ============================================
09:48:33.758: Video stopped, number of skipped frames due to encoding lag: 424/1666 (25.5%)