I have a gaming PC with an i7 3820. It has 4 cores and 2 threads per core, making it capable of handling 8 threads
When I stream a game (The Witcher 2 for example) using in-home streaming, I notice in the video streaming details that the encoder is using 4 threads. Is there any way I can increase the number of threads to 8? Does it make sense to increase the number of threads to 8 for a CPU like the i7 3820?
Best Answer
I found out how:
In Steam, go to Steam menu -> Settings, then in the In-Home Streaming settings, press the "Advanced Host Options" button, and a window will appear. You can then select the number of threads used for software encoding.
This option wasn't there around the time I posted the question.. it seems like it was added recently.