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I have a 4790k and I need help with my settings. For some reasons I run into high cpu usage. What settings should I use for streaming and recording.

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What GPU do you have, are you using NVIDIA codec?

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1 minute ago, Luc401 said:

What GPU do you have, are you using NVIDIA codec?

 No, I have a 7870

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x264 codec is known to be using a lot of CPU. If you can, connect a 2nd display or use virtual display (I believe there are tutorials on the internet) to make use of Intel Quick Sync, this uses much less CPU with minimal quality loss.

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2 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

x264 codec is known to be using a lot of CPU. If you can, connect a 2nd display or use virtual display (I believe there are tutorials on the internet) to make use of Intel Quick Sync, this uses much less CPU with minimal quality loss.

I have a second display, It is not an option.

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10 minutes ago, CruxYo said:

I have a 4790k and I need help with my settings. For some reasons I run into high cpu usage. What settings should I use for streaming and recording.

Without hardware encoding, high CPU usage would be expected.

 

You should be able to stream at 720p 30 FPS, maybe even 60 FPS

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5 minutes ago, HPWebcamAble said:

Without hardware encoding, high CPU usage would be expected.

 

You should be able to stream at 720p 30 FPS, maybe even 60 FPS

so this is normal? So if I get a gtx 1080 it'll be better?

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4 minutes ago, CruxYo said:

so this is normal? So if I get a gtx 1080 it'll be better?

You can use the VCE branch of OBS to get hardware encoding with an AMD card.
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/obs-branch-with-amd-vce-support.13996/

Although it is not official, it is still known to perform fairly well, and allows for 1080p@30FPS or 720p@60FPS at the "Quality" preset on GCN 1.0 hardware like you have.

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22 minutes ago, Fire Yoshi said:

You can use the VCE branch of OBS to get hardware encoding with an AMD card.
https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/obs-branch-with-amd-vce-support.13996/

Although it is not official, it is still known to perform fairly well, and allows for 1080p@30FPS or 720p@60FPS at the "Quality" preset on GCN 1.0 hardware like you have.

Thanks, so far looks good.

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