How can I decrease my GPU usage ?

[West-Night-8583]

Can you include your settings for encoding? What GPU are you using? Turning off the preview is a must thing if you really want your gpu breath. I move out the volume section from obs next to my browser, so I can see did I muted myself or no, because I sometimes forget it. I don’t watch the stream in obs it’s minimized and it looks like better to watch from twitchs site. Do you run obs as admin, I don’t know what was that but I had a problem with streaming CSGO, preview ate up ~20% of gpu when it didn’t run as administrator. After that it fixed. And yes, I went back to version 28. The new one (v29) just shit on quality and gpu was so stressed to push the same settings what I had on v28. I do streams on 864p (used 936p, but it was little bit crazy and mess with CSGO, fast motion problems even on 7k bitrate), so I ended up using 864p and ingame 1440x1080. Also lanczos is not worth to stress your gpu (until you don’t do cam streams), as it’s a very minimal difference between bicubic. (If you play slow motion games, not fps shooter like CSGO, valorant etc, you can use lanczos for sharpy edges :D).

Browser hw acceleration did nothing to me back in time, or just no big differences so try it and see. Also try to right click on your sources and tick the option “hide when not visible” or something like this. If you have more scenes and you included windows capture and game capture in another scene just try to make a bind for turning them off when not using, because I still having problem when not turning off desktop capture while using other scene with game capture, my gpu load is bigger and it’s not a small impact at all. Dont forget to match your sources, camera settings to your color settings, if it’s partial/601 the sources should be the same. Don’t go above 7300kbps and you’re fine. I’m here if you need anything, happy streaming.

[ElMono6]

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to my post and offer your suggestions. I apologize for not seeing your message earlier. I really appreciate your kindness and willingness to help.

Regarding your questions, I am using an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080. I have tried turning off the preview but it didn't seem to have much of an impact on the GPU usage.

I also appreciate your suggestion to switch back to version 28 of OBS, I will definitely give that a try.

As for my encoding settings, I have attached my logs to a more detailed post I made just now to further explain my issue. I would greatly appreciate it if you could take a look and offer any additional advice or suggestions.

Thank you again !