Question / Help Slightly increased CPU usage with certain sources

[Predyz]

Hi all

I've been streaming with NVENC in 1080p60fps (downscaled to 720p of course) since a month right now with OBS studio (Always latest version) without any particular issues on a i5 6600k, 16GB RAM and Asus GTX 1070.

I used to create my own local overlays and since i am streaming videogames i was getting help from streamalerts for the alertboxes.

Recently, with my viewers increasing i switched to streamelements wich provides a large amount of "super themes" wich integrates with one single browser source all the alerts i need for my show.

I'm actually still streaming without any issue, but i noticed, in a moment my PC was really stressed by a large amount of background softwares (Discord, Chrome, Steam, Battlenet plus OBS and the game on air) that my CPU was a bit stressed.
After a fast check i noticed this browsersource seems to keep OBS busy very much, basically:
- If i use my old homemade overlays, OBS stays at 6%-8% in idle or even in streaming;
- If i use those animated overlays, OBS stays at 20% in idle and increase at 30% during the stream;

So i was wondering if this is an issue about OBS not liking the external sources, or just because animated overlays must be managed by an hyperthreading I7, beside of a "simple" I5.

Actually i'm at work and i cannot provide any logs, but i will do as soon as someone needs them.

 

[dodgepong]

Animation-heavy pages can indeed be very CPU-intensive, as you nave noticed -- not due to a "problem" in OBS, but just because that's how browser-based animation can be sometimes. This sounds pretty normal to me, and is probably something for you to keep in mind as you decide how best to manage your overlays.

 

[Predyz]

Seems normal to me too.

So, as we assured that's not an OBS issue my question is: should i upgrade to an I7 to have less CPU stress, or this will be the same even with an hyper threading processor?

I really don't like to turn back again to a "normal" overlay cause my viewers are liking very much the animated one.

Edit: i forgot to tell that i tried an animated overlay from the same source, removing all the animation. OBS keeps going at 20% CPU. So i don't really understand what is causing it to increase if that's not an animation issue...