I can't play while rendering

[Versti]

Hello,
So I edit and render around 2 videos a day, and i would like to game when im rendering since i dont need my hands for rendering (duh), the game i play is Overwatch, but whenever im playing it and rendering a video it lags and becomes unplayable because of the FPS drops, now.. i KNOW that it's a cpu problem (usually) but my cpu is pretty capable of such tasks, its a Ryzen 7 1700 8 Cores 16 Threads Overclocked to 3.5GHz, so its pretty capable, and my gpu is a GTX 1060 6GB (if it matters), so i need to know what's causing this problem and how can i fix it?

[joshuawi99]

You can force your rendering software to use certain cores. Just disable the first 4 and enable them for overwatch

[Versti]

4 minutes ago, joshuawi99 said:

You can force your rendering software to use certain cores. Just disable the first 4 and enable them for overwatch

Thank you for the advice, ill do that 

[joshuawi99]

1 minute ago, Versti said:

Thank you for the advice, ill do that 

Well use cores 0 2 4 6 for your games. These are physical cores and no threads

[Daniel Z.]

Enable CUDA if you can. Not many PCs can render and game simultaneously.

[iNSUFFZ]

Highly tempted to say of course you can't..go for a smoke or something..let it do its thing before you go for another gaming session

[KarathKasun]

Pinning threads with task manager will mostly fix this issue.

 

Task manager -> Details -> right click the process for your video renderer -> set affinity

[Majestic]

It doesn't matter how many cores it has, it will just use those for rendering as well. This is not a matter of how capable the CPU is, but how the priorities are set.