Hi there,
First things first: I don't know how most of this works, I can google and that gives me a super basic understanding. So please Explain Like I'm 5 on these things.
Finally switched over from old OBS to Studio and was not anticipating my CPU usage would go from a mild 25% to capped out at 100% without even having a game running. My computer is about 7 years old, but since I had no issue streaming at all before with the old OBS (at 1080p 60fps while recording, too) I was shocked to see this difference and aIso wondering why there is this much of a difference? [Using AMD FX 8320 8-core, 3.5mhz and AMD Radeon R9 200 series] I did add some functionalities to my stream along with the switch, but nothing that should account for this much. I did also downscale my camera cus I read cameras in 1080p eat CPU when used on streams. This didn't significantly change CPU usage, though, merely a few % at best.
I read that AMD has AMF encoder so I decided to install that plugin, in the hopes that this would relieve some of the stress off my CPU. That seemed to do the trick. I was still using a lot more CPU than before, but it would never exceed 90%, so I was able to stream and play at all old, desired settings/resolution.
With one exception, though. Every 2 seconds there is either a stutter or a pixelation on the screen. It almost looks like a flash and is not extremely noticeable when there is a lot of stuff going on, but when I'm standing still it's very noticeable. I went into my logs:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4d6ecd94851449aac7e4484c5707d05b
And from what I gather this means my GPU does not support AMF? I'm not incredibly informed on all of this, so I wonder if this is not working, then why am I still able to stream and use less CPU than before I enabled it? A lot of the modules that seem to fail loading, I double checked in the folder and all those .DLL files are in the folder, so I'm not sure if that's anything I can do anything about or if that's just the effect of the H265/HEVC encoder process being stopped...
So an ELI5 on why Studio uses about 8x more CPU would be nice. Any ideas on how the stutter/pixelation could be removed without things like lowering quality (I'm not interested in lowering my quality while "upgrading" to a "better" program).
Thank you so much in advance and if I omitted anything please let me know so I can find the information ASAP.
First things first: I don't know how most of this works, I can google and that gives me a super basic understanding. So please Explain Like I'm 5 on these things.
Finally switched over from old OBS to Studio and was not anticipating my CPU usage would go from a mild 25% to capped out at 100% without even having a game running. My computer is about 7 years old, but since I had no issue streaming at all before with the old OBS (at 1080p 60fps while recording, too) I was shocked to see this difference and aIso wondering why there is this much of a difference? [Using AMD FX 8320 8-core, 3.5mhz and AMD Radeon R9 200 series] I did add some functionalities to my stream along with the switch, but nothing that should account for this much. I did also downscale my camera cus I read cameras in 1080p eat CPU when used on streams. This didn't significantly change CPU usage, though, merely a few % at best.
I read that AMD has AMF encoder so I decided to install that plugin, in the hopes that this would relieve some of the stress off my CPU. That seemed to do the trick. I was still using a lot more CPU than before, but it would never exceed 90%, so I was able to stream and play at all old, desired settings/resolution.
With one exception, though. Every 2 seconds there is either a stutter or a pixelation on the screen. It almost looks like a flash and is not extremely noticeable when there is a lot of stuff going on, but when I'm standing still it's very noticeable. I went into my logs:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/4d6ecd94851449aac7e4484c5707d05b
And from what I gather this means my GPU does not support AMF? I'm not incredibly informed on all of this, so I wonder if this is not working, then why am I still able to stream and use less CPU than before I enabled it? A lot of the modules that seem to fail loading, I double checked in the folder and all those .DLL files are in the folder, so I'm not sure if that's anything I can do anything about or if that's just the effect of the H265/HEVC encoder process being stopped...
So an ELI5 on why Studio uses about 8x more CPU would be nice. Any ideas on how the stutter/pixelation could be removed without things like lowering quality (I'm not interested in lowering my quality while "upgrading" to a "better" program).
Thank you so much in advance and if I omitted anything please let me know so I can find the information ASAP.
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