OBS/Twitch streaming ideal CPU usage %

[Picky]

What would be your max limit to have your processor running at while gaming/streaming with a single pc? I've had mine jump to 85% but didn't notice any slow down. Is there an ideal number to not go over?

[Swndlr]

Would help to know what CPU you have......................

[Gnun1x]

And follow your own topic, youll get notifications when someone like me and Swndlr react.

[noisebomb44]

It depends on what game you are playing, if you are playing universe sandbox compared to tetris, since if you only have x ammount of CPU power left over, then you might not be able to run your game at 60 FPS

also, if you reach 100% the CPU will turboclock, which will bring the % down for a while.

[Picky]

6700k

 

Arma 3

DayZ

BF4

[FunkyFeatures]

Occasionally reach 100% with a 4.6 ghz 4790k, but without dropping frames or losing framerate ingame

[LogicalDrm]

100% would be best. But I've got 4770K to 60% while streaming. Note, CPUs performance won't change much when it hits 100%. You can notice it maxing out when game slows or you drop frames. Then it time to lower streaming settings.

[peabody505]

Shouldn't be too bad, for streaming though, more cores = better quality. I had to get a 10 core Xeon just to stream Minecraft at anything higher than potato quality.

[Fluffinator]

Shouldn't be too bad, for streaming though, more cores = better quality. I had to get a 10 core Xeon just to stream Minecraft at anything higher than potato quality.

Something must of been wrong then, literally almodt anything can stream minecraft..

[peabody505]

Nope. Pristine custom build without any bloatware or viruses. I had all my drivers, and there were no incompatibilities. What most people don't think about is that although Minecraft is a relatively simple game, it's render engine is so poorly optimized it's hard to get 60FPS on a GTX 760.