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FlyingKnuckle

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Hello, I've recently been playing Archeage and I noticed that my cpu uses almost 80% of its max allowance. Any way to reduce this or maybe a suggestion as to what i can upgrade to reduce the usage and begin to stream this game?

I5-3570k
GTX 550TI
16gb Ram
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD
Hyper Evo 212 Cooler
 
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The Original Ralph

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not sure what your concern is - are you planning on or hoping to render video files while gaming?

It's all a factor of the game's software - i render a lot of video files, one program i use, Handbrake, on a computer with an i7-4790 cpu (4 cores, boosted to 4.0) runs at 98-100% usage or load. On another computer with an i7-5960X cpu (eight cores, also clocked to 4.0), Handbrake runs that cpu at 92-97% load.

Another program i use for rendering, runs either cpu at 32-38% load, whether the 4 core or 8 core cpu
 
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My issue is when I actually start streaming (using OBS) my cpu usage hits max 100% and I begin to notice dramatic fps loss in more intensive areas of the game and also stuttering. I play the game on High settings DX9 and stream at 30fps at my native resolution.
 
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I5s don't have the horsepower to puch thru gaming and streaming simultaneously. You'll have to cut corners by using your GPU's hardware acceleration to do the streaming part instead.
 
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The only thing that can reduce CPU usage when streaming is to rely on the GPU for rendering the video if that doesn't work then you will need to get a cpu that has more cores to handle the rendering of the streaming video such as AMD's 8 core Ryzen 7 chips.
 
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Can I ask what the best way to go about allocating the streaming resources needed to the gpu?

 
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You using OBS or Xplit?

If OBS, go to your output settings then swap the encoder from x264 to NVEC (if using a Nvidia card).
 
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Under advanced encoder options the only option is x264. However there is a line x264 options that allows you too type commands in. Is this what you are referring too?

 
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