The stream quality depends greatly on the picked video resolution. If the process is fast, the CPU is used less, so I would recommend picking “ Very fast” – the video quality will be the same, and the CPU will continue working properly.

This will determine the speed of the encoding process. When it comes to Streamlabs OBS output mode settings, I have to mention the preset as well. If you have an NVidia graphics card, always go for hardware encoding. This means that the entire stream will run smoothly, which is the most important.Ī thing that you should keep in mind is that the quality might be a bit lower, but you can fix it by adjusting the bitrate. Well, firstly, there won’t be any lags, because CPU usage won’t be as high. If you choose NVENC, SLOBS will use hardware encoding and GPU instead of CPU.

If the CPU is overloaded, many problems can occur during the live streams, so that is why you should switch to GPU if you can.

As said this encoder uses software, thus CPU usage is slightly higher, which doesn’t make it one of the best Streamlabs OBS encoder settings.

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