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Polysorbate 25 Jun @ 1:24pm
Selectable GPU for encoding
Lots of people have more than one GPU in their system, such as an iGPU plus a discrete card. It would be really cool if there was a way to divert recording duties to the iGPU.

In my case I actually have two discrete GPUs but one is just three transistors in a trenchcoat called Intel Arc A310. It's basically only good for video encoding, but it's really good at that one thing. It'll dual-stream 200 FPS 1080p HEVC with quality superior to x265's "fast" preset and it does it using only ~30 watts. And if you don't mind losing some compression efficiency it'll go way faster than that.

Anyway, it'd be super nice if I could record with my Intel """""GPU""""" while gaming on my Nvidia GPU.
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xXx_AW_P_Asian_xXx 31 Aug @ 12:47am 
You can try forcing Steam or whatever recording program you decide to use to only use the GPU intended for encoding, by going to Windows Settings -> System -> Display -> Graphics, and then search for or add the recording app, and under GPU preference choose your encoding GPU.

It still may not work 100% of the times, for example I use 5090+3080Ti, however Steam's recording currently cannot use the 50 series encoder for some reason, so despite that I force the Steam app to use the 5090, it would still default to 3080Ti, and if I disable 3080Ti completely, or remove Steam's access through Nvidia Control Panel, then Steam just errors out.
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