Question / Help OBS Studio maxing out my GPU

[supermagikman]

I have recently built a dedicated streaming PC from spare parts using an i5 processor and a Radeon HD4350 graphics card. My problem is that when I open my main scene the GPU goes to 99% utilization and stays there (using CPUID HWMonitor). The main scene has the Elgato HD external and webcam as well as some text/website elements. As soon as I switch off the main scene, which only has a single image, the GPU goes straight to 0. I am using the latest Radeon drivers. I've googled trying to find an answer to no avail.

Thanks.

 

[supermagikman]

NM, I fixed the problem. The scene canvas was set to 1920x1080 but my native resolution was much lower than that. As soon as I changed my scene canvas to be a little lower than my native resolution the GPU went down to 75%ish.

 

[supermagikman]

Problem is not fixed, as soon as I opened OBS today GPU spiked to 99% with the resolution set to what it was yesterday when I thought the problem was fixed.

 

[Videophile]

OBS Studio uses your graphics card to composite all your sources together as well as downscale and such.

These things do require a more modern GPU. Some integrated GPU's in intel CPU's cant even keep up.

Your GPU is simply too old/weak. It came out in June 16, 2008 and only supports DirectX 10.1.

I myself run a dedicated streaming PC with a cheap 750ti in it which gets the job done perfectly.

 

[supermagikman]

OBS Studio uses your graphics card to composite all your sources together as well as downscale and such.

These things do require a more modern GPU. Some integrated GPU's in intel CPU's cant even keep up.

Your GPU is simply too old/weak. It came out in June 16, 2008 and only supports DirectX 10.1.

I myself run a dedicated streaming PC with a cheap 750ti in it which gets the job done perfectly.

I understand, and yet when I switched resolutions yesterday GPU went down to 75% and stayed there for hours until I logged off.