Question / Help Trouble with High CPU usage and High encoding

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IITHEDOCTORII

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I am having a heck of a time trying to determine the best encoding settings to use for streaming and local recording. Here is my pc info:
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I also have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 GPU. If someone could help me with my settings that would be awesome. I am trying to get the best quality for 1280p X 720p.
 
There isn't much to configure for NVENC regarding local recording and it's best avoided for streaming due to its relatively poor compression. Throw bitrate at it until the recording looks okay.
 
ok my bad i had the wrong profile for that log. I got the stream settings good now. For the local recordings i don't know what to do. Do you suggest to use x264 or Nvenc. My current CPU runs very warm so i was trying to minimize the impact on it.
 
x264 offers better compression than NVENC at the expense of making your CPU do the work. If your system can't manage the added load of video compression on top of whatever else you're doing, then by all means use a hardware encoder like NVENC. It's not ideal but it's a decent fallback when x264 isn't a viable option.
 
Are your Nvidia drivers updated to the latest? NVEnc should not perform so poorly on a GTX750.

Try getting rid of CLRHost and your webcam (as a test). Since you're on Windows 10, also try Windows and Monitor capture, sometimes they work better. Make sure your game and OBS are both using the GTX750, as opposed to the AMD APU graphics. Don't use any downscale, you shouldn't need it. Since this isn't for streaming, just saving to disk, set your Profile to High and your keyframe interval to 5 seconds.
 
Drivers are updated to the latest, game and obs use the gtx750. I still receive high cpu usage cound the integrated gpu in the APU be the issue? Or, could it because im running windows 10?
 
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