Question / Help Terrible OBS performance 86%-90% CPU usage when streaming on second PC using Elgato HD60

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Enc0re

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Las week I streamed from my second PC as always and my CPU usage stayed around 76% now I have a lot of screen tearing, pixelated image and some artifacts on my obs elgato screen.

My gaming PC has:
8gb ram
core i7 4710hq
GTX 1080TI 11gb

Streaming PC:
8gb ram ddr4
Pentium G4400

Using elgato HD60 to stream
 

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Harold said:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i7-4710HQ-vs-Intel-Pentium-G4400/2243vs2634
It's not surprising that your pentium based system isn't performing well. It's got less than half the processing capability of your gaming pc.
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Yeah i know that, but last week I had no issue streaming like that. I have that PC for streaming only so that's the CPU that reddit pcmasterrace recommend me for streaming only so I was wondering if I changed a setting by accident or idk. Becausr I would hate to have to change the CPU it's almost new
 
So? Any solution to the problem? As I said last week I had like 75% CPU usage and stable 60fps on my stream. (I stream at 1280x720 60fps)
 
Hm the logs both look pretty good... I see you are using an Elgato Capture Card. Have you made a Software Update recently? Maybe you changed some settings in the Elgato Software? Please check the Elgato Encoder / Decoder and double check you have selected your GPU.
 
Even when it worked well in the past, it didn't work very well. You were using the Quicksync encoder, which was a smart move for that CPU, but you still had 1.3% lagged frames. Even so, you were running at 720p when it "worked", and when it didn't work, you were either using software encoding or Quicksync encoding at 1080p. Try sticking to Quicksync at 720p, not 1080p, that's what the logs show your computer works best.

You'd probably be better off just encoding on your Gaming PC and not using that Streaming PC at all.
 
Boildown said:
Even when it worked well in the past, it didn't work very well. You were using the Quicksync encoder, which was a smart move for that CPU, but you still had 1.3% lagged frames. Even so, you were running at 720p when it "worked", and when it didn't work, you were either using software encoding or Quicksync encoding at 1080p. Try sticking to Quicksync at 720p, not 1080p, that's what the logs show your computer works best.

You'd probably be better off just encoding on your Gaming PC and not using that Streaming PC at all.
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Thanks I'm gonna try that. Yeah i would stream on my gaming pc but the thing is that in CPU intensive games like CS:GO instead of having 200+fps it goes down to 40fps I haven't tried with the 1080ti how it works out so i'll try that
 
___Maggi___ said:
Hm the logs both look pretty good... I see you are using an Elgato Capture Card. Have you made a Software Update recently? Maybe you changed some settings in the Elgato Software? Please check the Elgato Encoder / Decoder and double check you have selected your GPU.
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Yeah maybe I accidentally moved a setting I'll check, thank you.
 
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