Blue Iris

I have a small setup, 6x 4mp cameras and BI running on an i5 6 series with hardware acceleration on. When recording my CPU is at 30-40%. Because the same machine is used to display the cameras and scrub through footage it often maxes out the CPU.
I've heard that using nvidia cards for hardware acceleration is pointless however, would it be beneficial for me when review footage to have the monitor on the GPU? would that off load the work from the CPU? Ideally keeping the CPU for the recording hardware acceleration?

does that make sense?

I don't know about your question, but if the CPU usage is a problem, you can try the usual suspects.

• Direct to disk recording
• Reducing cameras analyzed for motion
• Reducing frame rates
• Doing motion detection only on SD substreams
• Reducing zone sizes to be analyzed

The actual direct to disk recording requires minimal CPU.