OBS Studio NVENC Errors

Complete Guide to Fix OBS Studio NVENC Errors

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Before learning how to fix OBS NVENC error. First we need to know about OBS,  NVENC  and NVENC Codec? 

OBS simply stands for Open Broadcaster Software. It’s a free and open source software which allows you to live – streaming and video recording.

People stream their video on a site like YouTube, Facebook live , Twitch , to share with locals or friends . You can even customise your live streaming and recorded video by using different audio , image , text , browser window and more. 

NVENC is widely known as the short for the Nvidia Enchor . It’s one of the features of the Nvidia Graphics card . The basic nature of NVENC is highly competent, power-sufficient , Good quality, enhanced performance and significantly increases the speed of video recording.

NVENC Codec is the tool for the hardware encoding which is available on the Windows and Mac  version of OBS. But for the better results coding recommended use only computers with Windows versions.

In this article we learn how to fix NVENC errors in OBS you will encounter while using obs studio.

How to Enable NVENC Encoding in OBS? 

For enabling this feature you need to follow this process

  1. Start OBS 
  2. Click the file and select settings option
  3. Then open the output tab ( located on the side menu ).
  4. New window appears to check the enabled advanced enchor (NVENC H.264) if it is unchecked.

After enabling and using the NVENC encoding in OBS, sometimes users start getting some issues. So to solve this problem you need to follow up this process.

How to Fix OBS NVENC Errors ? 

How To Fix the OBS Studio NVENC error unsupported device

The following steps show how to fix NVENC error OBS

  1. Open the OBS software problem
  2. Click on the file and go to the settings option 
  3. Click the output tab
  4. Then , find the streaming box
  5. Click on the encoder and then change into Quicksync or ×264 instead of NVENC. 
  6. Finally, click the OK tab.

The older version of GPU ( a specific part of CPU) can handle only two concurrent encoding sessions, but the newer version has the capacity to handle three concurrent encoding sessions 

How to Fix OBS NVENC encoding overload?

  1. Open the settings and then click the video.
  2. Select the common FPS value ( choose 30  or less)
  3. Click the OK tab .

How To Fix the failed to Open NVENC encoding on OBS

After making changes you still face the same problem while using the NVENC encoding OBS. It happens Because Function not implemented error acts as the disruptive force within OBS . Which results in poor video quality , frame drop and potential crashing OBS itself.

  1. Open the OBS program
  2. Locate the file menu and click the settings tab .
  3. Select the output option ( locate the streaming preference).
  4. Then modify the encoder settings according to your preference .
  5. Finally , OK 

Conclusion

NVENC is the free software tool which is used for live streaming and video recording. The usage is better video quality and improves productivity of the user.