For those who have problems:
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Check and update drivers
NVENC requires current NVIDIA graphics drivers to function properly -
Check if NVENC is supported
Make sure your NVIDIA graphics card supports NVENC -
Testing with ffmpeg
Enter this in the command prompt:ffmpeg -encoders
This will give a list of codecs, search forh264_nvenc -
DirectX or CUDA support
Make sure that the DirectX and CUDA libraries are correctly installed on your system, as NVENC is based on CUDA