So, I've always streamed with the CPU-hog x264 settings for months, but lately I've been doing some tests with QuickSync and VCE (VCE is just terrible btw).
So I wanted to do a test on Tomb Raider. Set up everything all nicely. Boot game up, see FPS counter not at usual level. Looks like it's only using 1 GPU. Exit back out, see GPU 2 going at 100% on MSI Afterburner.
Stop streaming/preview and the GPU usage drops back down. Previously I only streamed PoE and D3 so I never noticed this, but I've disabled the iGPU, switched back to x264, set OBS on preview and my GPU 2 goes nuts as well.
This basically means CrossFireX has never worked for me with OBS since forever. GPU 2 seems to be dedicated to just rendering the OBS screen for some reason.
Is there a way around this? I thought I finally had an acceptable way to stream demanding games without being CPU-bottlenecked from streaming x264, but if GPU 2 isn't working on the game, it's kinda pointless.
So I wanted to do a test on Tomb Raider. Set up everything all nicely. Boot game up, see FPS counter not at usual level. Looks like it's only using 1 GPU. Exit back out, see GPU 2 going at 100% on MSI Afterburner.
Stop streaming/preview and the GPU usage drops back down. Previously I only streamed PoE and D3 so I never noticed this, but I've disabled the iGPU, switched back to x264, set OBS on preview and my GPU 2 goes nuts as well.
This basically means CrossFireX has never worked for me with OBS since forever. GPU 2 seems to be dedicated to just rendering the OBS screen for some reason.
Is there a way around this? I thought I finally had an acceptable way to stream demanding games without being CPU-bottlenecked from streaming x264, but if GPU 2 isn't working on the game, it's kinda pointless.