Question / Help Should I use x264 or NVENC?

[Mr.Seal]

I'm really just wondering which is better to use with my hardware.
My specs:
i5-3570
GTX1060 3GB
8GB RAM
Games are on a 7200rpm hard drive.

I'm looking to stream games with as minimal performance impact as possible with the gameplay still looking good. I'm going to stream Overwatch and a Resident Evil 7 gameplay. While playing RE7 my gpu is ALWAYS at 99% usage and my cpu is around 50% without streaming.

 

[koala]

nvenc on your gpu is about the same quality as x264 with the "veryfast" preset. Your CPU is probably not fast powerful to support a better x264 preset ("faster"), so you might use nvenc as well to get the same quality while relieving the CPU even more and give the game even more CPU power.

 

[Mr.Seal]

nvenc on your gpu is about the same quality as x264 with the "veryfast" preset. Your CPU is probably not fast powerful to support a better x264 preset ("faster"), so you might use nvenc as well to get the same quality while relieving the CPU even more and give the game even more CPU power.

Alright, thanks! But I have another problem. RE7 is not showing up in OBS. I can select the game for obs to capture it but its just a black screen.