OBS Studio: Questions About CPU Usage and Nvidia Frame Buffer Capture (NVFBC)

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@Fabby

Please, don’t post screenshots of text!
1.1. Definitely don’t post screenshots of text!

Sorry about that, I didn’t know how to copy and paste the results from htop, so taking a screenshot was the only thing I could think of.

@Fabby

• Also please read this:
  How to provide good information
  and post some more information so we can see what’s really going on. Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin lies…
• An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information for us to be able to help you. (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)
  Also, please copy-paste that output in-between 3 backticks ``` at the beginning and end of the code/text.

I added the output of the inxi to the end of the opening post.

@Fabby

As you have an Intel Core i7 8th Gen that has 4 cores with 8 threads, 20% / 8 = 2.5% so are you sure that htop is showing the entire CPU or that OBS is showing just one core/thread?

If I’m to believe my specs, I have a 6-core CPU, an Intel Core i7-8750H, with apparently 12 threads. Looking at the screenshot, it does appear as though htop displays all 12 threads. It’s possible that OBS Studio only shows one, but I wouldn’t know. Using the System Activity Monitor (Ctrl + Esc on KDE) also shows OBS with just 1 % CPU usage, which just further confuses me.