Very slow encoding on Nvidia 1050TI card for steam link

[salilsurendran]

Hello,
I have a Nvidia 1050 TI card and a e8500 AMD dual core CPU at 3.16 Ghz. I have hardware decoding enabled on both host and client. I get very poor 4fps playing 'XCOM Enemy within' at 1920 x 1080. In steam big picture mode I see the encoder is steam d3d10nv12 + nvenc h264 and I am getting 60 fps. Once I start the game I get 'game polled d3d9 nv12 + nvenc h264' and the frame rate drops and sometimes the encoder becomes 'game polled d3d9 nv12 + libx264 main (1 threads)' and the frame rate is still poor. If I select 'Use NVFBC capture on NVIDIA GPU' the performance becomes real poor. Is there any settings I can change on the Nvidia card that can make encoding better. Given that xcom is not such a big resource hog I was expecting better performance.

 

[13thmonkey]

I suspect you are suffering with a very weak CPU.

 

[salilsurendran]

The game works very well on my local machine. I reduced the resolution to 1600 * 900 and the frame rate increased to 10 fps so at least more playable.