# Hardware usage - low % **URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hardware-usage-low/3335 **Category:** Hardware Encoding **Created:** [December 21, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hardware-usage-low/3335 "2019-12-21T15:09:34Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose) #### Post date: [December 22, 2019, 5:14am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hardware-usage-low/3335/6 "2019-12-22T05:14:26Z")
Depends on the video filters being used in the profile and the hardware capabilities. Not all hardware support all filters so it ends up using the CPU for that processing activities. Remove all filters from the profile if you want to use more hardware (at the expense of quality). See these topics: > [@Not sure if hardware encoding is working or not](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/not-sure-if-hardware-encoding-is-working-or-not/2923/4): > > It depends on what options and filters are being used in the profile you’re using. Not all adapters support all options. For example if the profile is using a denoise filter to clean up artifacts and if you’re hardware doesn’t support it then it’ll use the CPU to do that part. If you want to use only the GPU then you’ll have to build a custom profile specific to your GPU capabilities only and remove all other options. MCEBuddy uses hardware acceleration to assist and speed up encoding without c… > [@Video conversion performance question](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/video-conversion-performance-question/1971/2): > > That sounds about right, the performance can depend on what filters your profile is using to process the video. Maybe @Will_Tschumy @techpro2004 can share their experiences --- _[View the full topic](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/hardware-usage-low/3335)._