Procaster takes up like 50-70% of my CPU wtf?

[Prixm89]

Yeah, Procaster takes way to much CPU. My computer is really good, Starcraft 2 or other games takes up like what.. 10% of my CPU.. 15% at most. When I use Procaster + Starcraft 2 the CPU usage goes up to 50%.. In game it can go as high as 80%..

Isnt there something that should be done with Procaster to make it less CPU-draining? There must be something. Cause my computer is highend and still I can lag from time to time.. My fps drops by a mile with Procaster on.. Its kinda annoying.

[coryfrans]

Originally Posted by Prixm89

Yeah, Procaster takes way to much CPU. My computer is really good, Starcraft 2 or other games takes up like what.. 10% of my CPU.. 15% at most. When I use Procaster + Starcraft 2 the CPU usage goes up to 50%.. In game it can go as high as 80%..

Isnt there something that should be done with Procaster to make it less CPU-draining? There must be something. Cause my computer is highend and still I can lag from time to time.. My fps drops by a mile with Procaster on.. Its kinda annoying.

Hello,

If you can, please let me knoe the specs of your computer.

[Prixm89]

XFX Radeon HD 5830 1GB GDDR5

AMD Athlon II X4 635, Quad Core, 2.9Ghz, AM3, 2MB, 95W, Boxed.

Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H, Socket-AM3

Cooler Master GX 750W PSU

Kingston ValueR. DDR3 1333MHz 4GB, CL9

[coryfrans]

Originally Posted by Prixm89

XFX Radeon HD 5830 1GB GDDR5

AMD Athlon II X4 635, Quad Core, 2.9Ghz, AM3, 2MB, 95W, Boxed.

Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H, Socket-AM3

Cooler Master GX 750W PSU

Kingston ValueR. DDR3 1333MHz 4GB, CL9

Procaster is a video encoder. Encoding usually is a CPU intensive process, so this is why you are seeing these spikes in your cpu usage. Usually I suggest to lower your game gfx settings and to set your procaster broadcast settings to either normal or low.

[EugeeTV]

Actually, I have been experiencing problems with Procaster lately just like this. I've streamed WoW Cataclysm on Ultra settings for 5 hours straight without any issues, but now I can't stream for more than 10-15 minutes before my CPU spikes through the roof and my framerate crashes. If I turn off and close Procaster, all is right with the world again.

I'm going to roll back my Procaster to 1.0 and see if the problem goes away, and then if it does I'll keep upping the version till it starts doing it. More to come later...

[EugeeTV]

Rolling back to 10.x didn't change anything, I'm still seeing huge CPU spikes every 10-15 minutes that pass after awhile. I ran some diagnostics and my CPU is not actually benchmarking where it should. I'm using a Athlon 64x2 6000+ right now (dual core 3.2 GHz) so I'm going to upgrade to a Phenom IIx4 550 (quad 3.2 GHz) w/ L3 cache and see if that fixes it.