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Hardware Encoder for Recording

DarienCS
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I have two graphics cards in my system, the more powerful one I use to run the games, however I occasionally want to record as well. Is it possible I can use the second graphics card to do the encoding for recording?

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3 minutes ago, DarienCS said:

I have two graphics cards in my system, the more powerful one I use to run the games, however I occasionally want to record as well. Is it possible I can use the second graphics card to do the encoding for recording?

No. Don't do that. 

 

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What software are you using?

The whole point of Nvidia's encoder is that it runs on the same card/GPU from teh same memory, so no need to transfer stuff between hardware units. Also the encoder is a dedicated block that wouldn't be used while gaming anyway, meaning you don't lose anything by recording. You're not stressing the same hardware more, you're just using an extra bit of circuitry that's there precisely for the purpose.

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4 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

What software are you using?

The whole point of Nvidia's encoder is that it runs on the same card/GPU from teh same memory, so no need to transfer stuff between hardware units. Also the encoder is a dedicated block that wouldn't be used while gaming anyway, meaning you don't lose anything by recording. You're not stressing the same hardware more, you're just using an extra bit of circuitry that's there precisely for the purpose.

OBS. And my GPU is at 100% usage while playing and when I hit record then OBS says the encoder is being overloaded and I drop about 20 FPS in game as well. 

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Tried ShadowPlay yet?

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Could try the cpu if you are just recording. Depends on how cpu bound the games are. 

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11 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Tried ShadowPlay yet?

I will try that out

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