If you've ever watched your FPS drop while streaming Minecraft or a battle royale on a mid-range GPU, you know the frustration of dropped frames and choppy audio. But the landscape has shifted in 2026 ...

There are various NVENC errors in OBS Studio, and some of them can have the same solution; however, one needs to understand the reason before applying any solution ...

Repurposing old GPUs: NVIDIA GPUs from past generations can still manage multiple hardware transcoding streams, freeing CPU resources and enabling smooth high-resolution streaming. Optimizing NVENC ...

The optimal hardware for H.264 encoding is pretty close to a superscaler, OOOE processor with a wide integer vector unit. Unsurprisingly, newer SSE variants are quite fast and enable things that ...

NVENC is just a hardware encoder block that has been on NV chips for a while, with incremental performance and codec support improvements on each new hardware platform. NVENC is very fast but the ...

OBS Project has released the first beta version of OBS Studio 31, and the release notes contain bad news for customers with older Nvidia graphics cards. OBS Studio 31.0 Beta 1 is now available for ...

If you've ever done any livestreaming on the internet, then you already know that one of the most important technical aspects of doing so is properly configuring your stream settings. Your selection ...

Video encoding company Beamr is launching an integrated solution that combines its CABR (Content Adaptive BitRate) rate control with the NVIDIA NVENC hardware video encoder. According to Beamr, the ...

Streaming software 2026 is transforming the landscape for content creators by optimizing encoding, reducing CPU usage, and enabling high-quality broadcasts on budget hardware. Low-end streaming setups ...

In brief: Intel has had a rough time launching its freshman series of dedicated graphics cards, struggling to get them to consumers on time and possibly with unimpressive results in gaming benchmarks.