Question / Help Possibility of running games on dedicated GPU and OBS on iGPU?

[MCBYT]

Is there any way I could potentially run OBS on my integrated Intel HD 4600 GPU and my games (Minecraft, Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition, Mirrors Edge: Catalyst, Portal, Portal 2, A Story About My Uncle, etc.) on a dedicated graphics card (that will most likely be a GTX 1030 low-profile, almost definitely this model) to reduce the load on my GPU? NVENC has not helped to reduce the load on my GPU, just playing games has my GPU at 65% and once I start recording it goes up by 25-40%.

 

[Elixerin]

yes, at the bottom of the NVENC settings you will see a setting that says GPU right above b-frames, change this value to '1' (the gpu that's not dedicated which is at '0'), if you have already tried this and its still laggy do the vice versa 1 to 0, however i wouldn't have high hopes for an integrated GPU to fully encode/decode 'games' without hiccups and would still recommend using your main GPU to encode. GPU usage being maxed out is common in games that are gpu-intensive, so if you see your gpu being used up 'usually' is a good sign(with a good cooler of course lol), in that the game is well optimized and is pushing out the most frames.The GPU usage doesn't increase at great values(usually not at all) on NVENC because it uses a different part of the GPU to encode, completely separate from 3D rendering(games). This can be shown in the task manager on windows 10

 

[n3v3rm1nd]

What no, this settings is only for multiple nvidia gpus. Just use QuickSync, that runs off the internal gpu and will take the load of your nvidia gpu.

 

[Elixerin]

What no, this settings is only for multiple nvidia gpus. Just use QuickSync, that runs off the internal gpu and will take the load of your nvidia gpu.

yes, he is right. my apologies, Quicksync which is the NVENC alternative and using this will only use your integrated GPU, bingo.