diff --git a/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg.c b/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg.c
index 33ccd3bb111b769f5473b073a1ba3478c95b7dce..3ccef9baaf45f2126143e74172f246bb5087decc 100644
--- a/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg.c
+++ b/plugins/obs-ffmpeg/obs-ffmpeg.c
@@ -6,13 +6,6 @@
 #include <libavformat/avformat.h>
 #include <pthread.h>
 
-#ifndef __APPLE__
-#include "dynlink_cuda.h"
-#include "nvEncodeAPI.h"
-#endif
-
-#define NVENC_CAP 0x30
-
 OBS_DECLARE_MODULE()
 OBS_MODULE_USE_DEFAULT_LOCALE("obs-ffmpeg", "en-US")
 
@@ -128,24 +121,6 @@ cleanup:
 
 static const char *nvenc_check_name = "nvenc_check";
 
-static inline bool push_context_(tcuCtxPushCurrent_v2 *cuCtxPushCurrent,
-		CUcontext context)
-{
-	return cuCtxPushCurrent(context) == CUDA_SUCCESS;
-}
-
-static inline bool pop_context_(tcuCtxPopCurrent_v2 *cuCtxPopCurrent)
-{
-	CUcontext dummy;
-	return cuCtxPopCurrent(&dummy) == CUDA_SUCCESS;
-}
-
-#define push_context(context) push_context_(cuCtxPushCurrent, context)
-#define pop_context() pop_context_(cuCtxPopCurrent)
-
-typedef NVENCSTATUS (NVENCAPI *NVENCODEAPICREATEINSTANCE)(
-		NV_ENCODE_API_FUNCTION_LIST *functionList);
-
 static bool nvenc_supported(void)
 {
 	av_register_all();
@@ -154,7 +129,6 @@ static bool nvenc_supported(void)
 
 	AVCodec *nvenc = avcodec_find_encoder_by_name("nvenc_h264");
 	void *lib = NULL;
-	void *cudalib = NULL;
 	bool success = false;
 
 	if (!nvenc) {
@@ -167,143 +141,17 @@ static bool nvenc_supported(void)
 	} else {
 		lib = os_dlopen("nvEncodeAPI.dll");
 	}
-	cudalib = os_dlopen("nvcuda.dll");
 #else
 	lib = os_dlopen("libnvidia-encode.so.1");
-	cudalib = os_dlopen("libcuda.so.1");
 #endif
-	if (!lib || !cudalib) {
-		goto cleanup;
-	}
 
 	/* ------------------------------------------- */
 
-	CUdevice device;
-	CUcontext context;
-	CUresult cu_result;
-	void *nvencoder = NULL;
-	NV_ENC_OPEN_ENCODE_SESSION_EX_PARAMS params = {0};
-	NV_ENCODE_API_FUNCTION_LIST nv = {0};
-	GUID *guids = NULL;
-	uint32_t count;
-	int nv_result;
-
-#define GET_CUDA_FUNC(func) \
-	t ## func *func = os_dlsym(cudalib, #func); \
-	do { \
-		if (!func) { \
-			goto cleanup; \
-		} \
-	} while (false)
-
-	GET_CUDA_FUNC(cuInit);
-	GET_CUDA_FUNC(cuDeviceGet);
-	GET_CUDA_FUNC(cuDeviceComputeCapability);
-
-#undef GET_CUDA_FUNC
-
-#define GET_CUDA_V2_FUNC(func) \
-	t ## func ## _v2 *func = os_dlsym(cudalib, #func "_v2"); \
-	do { \
-		if (!func) { \
-			goto cleanup; \
-		} \
-	} while (false)
-
-	GET_CUDA_V2_FUNC(cuCtxCreate);
-	GET_CUDA_V2_FUNC(cuCtxDestroy);
-	GET_CUDA_V2_FUNC(cuCtxPushCurrent);
-	GET_CUDA_V2_FUNC(cuCtxPopCurrent);
-
-#undef GET_CUDA_V2_FUNC
-
-	NVENCODEAPICREATEINSTANCE create_instance = os_dlsym(lib,
-			"NvEncodeAPICreateInstance");
-	if (!create_instance) {
-		goto cleanup;
-	}
-
-	nv.version = NV_ENCODE_API_FUNCTION_LIST_VER;
-	nv_result = create_instance(&nv);
-	if (nv_result != NV_ENC_SUCCESS) {
-		goto cleanup;
-	}
-
-	cu_result = cuInit(0);
-	if (cu_result != CUDA_SUCCESS) {
-		goto cleanup;
-	}
-
-	cu_result = cuDeviceGet(&device, 0);
-	if (cu_result != CUDA_SUCCESS) {
-		goto cleanup;
-	}
-
-	int major, minor;
-	cu_result = cuDeviceComputeCapability(&major, &minor, device);
-	if (cu_result != CUDA_SUCCESS) {
-		goto cleanup;
-	}
-
-	if (((major << 4) | minor) < NVENC_CAP) {
-		goto cleanup;
-	}
-
-	cu_result = cuCtxCreate(&context, 0, device);
-	if (cu_result != CUDA_SUCCESS) {
-		goto cleanup;
-	}
-
-	if (!pop_context()) {
-		goto cleanup2;
-	}
-
-	params.version = NV_ENC_OPEN_ENCODE_SESSION_EX_PARAMS_VER;
-	params.apiVersion = NVENCAPI_VERSION;
-	params.device = context;
-	params.deviceType = NV_ENC_DEVICE_TYPE_CUDA;
-
-	nv_result = nv.nvEncOpenEncodeSessionEx(&params, &nvencoder);
-	if (nv_result != NV_ENC_SUCCESS) {
-		nvencoder = NULL;
-		goto cleanup2;
-	}
-
-	nv_result = nv.nvEncGetEncodeGUIDCount(nvencoder, &count);
-	if (nv_result != NV_ENC_SUCCESS || !count) {
-		goto cleanup3;
-	}
-
-	guids = bzalloc(count * sizeof(GUID));
-
-	nv_result = nv.nvEncGetEncodeGUIDs(nvencoder, guids, count, &count);
-	if (nv_result != NV_ENC_SUCCESS || !count) {
-		goto cleanup3;
-	}
-
-	for (uint32_t i = 0; i < count; i++) {
-		int ret = memcmp(&guids[i], &NV_ENC_CODEC_H264_GUID,
-				sizeof(*guids));
-		if (ret == 0) {
-			success = true;
-			break;
-		}
-	}
-
-cleanup3:
-	bfree(guids);
-
-	if (nvencoder && push_context(context)) {
-		nv.nvEncDestroyEncoder(nvencoder);
-		pop_context();
-	}
-
-cleanup2:
-	cuCtxDestroy(context);
+	success = !!lib;
 
 cleanup:
-	os_dlclose(lib);
-	os_dlclose(cudalib);
+	if (lib)
+		os_dlclose(lib);
 	profile_end(nvenc_check_name);
 	return success;
 }