I have a plex server with in integrated Intel HD 610 and also a NVidia GPU in my windows 10 Plex server. I threw the GPU in to mine since the PC is on 24/7. The HD 610 is set to primary in the Mobo but plex is using both GPUs for video decode. The Nvidia is at about 20 percent used while the HD 610 …

[image] Transcoding with Quadro P2000 Desktops & Laptops In Windows 10 you can create a GPU preference for a program regardless of having a monitor plugged in or not. Right click the desktop, Display Settings, at the bottom should be Graphics Settings, Choose an app to se…

Thanks for the quick reply. It… kinda works. If I choose “power savings” Intel 610 it will still use both. If I selcet “high Performance” Nvidia GPU then it will completely offload the decoding to the Nvidia GPU and not use the G610. Perhaps the Intel HD 610 not powerful enough for trascoding highe…

AFAIK, Plex uses only one GPU, then falls back to CPU (software) encoding. However, I no longer run Plex on Windows, so I could be wrong. You can verify the GPU used by a) looking in the log files or b) filtering in the console (Settings → Console). The relevant line contains TPU: and lists the f…

thanks again for your reply. I think you’re right It will be easier just to stop mining whenever I need to transcode something in 4K. The mining thing on the side was just a fun tinkering thing with an old graphics card I had laying around, and I figured why not make a buck or two a day on top of pa…

I never could get this working. I use a 7700k Cpu with Intel HD 630 iGPU. If I completely remove the GTX 1050 2 GB from the PC, the HW transcoding works great, including 4K streams. The moment I put the GTX 1050 in the system the HW transcoding will stutter and surprisingly display a “your connecti…

Discovered a workaround. For some reason Plex Transcoder would attempt to use both integrated and discrete gpu. GTX 1050 was casuing stuttering even though the Quicksync HD 630 is more than capable of running things smoothly. Crappy solution is to physically remove GTX 1050 from the pc Alternate …

Set the whole plex directory for the application. https://www.howtogeek.com/351522/how-to-choose-which-gpu-a-game-uses-on-windows-10/

yep already tried this. I assigned Plex Media Server and Plex Transcoder both to use igpu. It didn’t work.

Force Plex to use only 1 GPU for HW Transcoding?

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Force Plex to use only 1 GPU for HW Transcoding?

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