14.2 nvenc issue (hardware encoding)

Hey guys! I've been lurking through this forum for a couple of years always finding a good solution for my issues, now I've come because I'm not being able to use the new hardware encoding feature launched on 14.2 last week.

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I have a 7700k with a a gtx 1060 6gb, 16gigs, 480 nvme, all running on win 10 pro build 18362. My hardware while is not the best, should be enough to see at least some difference. 

At my first attempt of using this feature I updated Premiere Pro, and got the latest nvidia drivers (442.92). The hardware encoding got enabled on the export window but didn't notice any difference. 

After searching here and on many other sites I've found an Adobe article saying sometimes with a clean drivers install the issues will go away, so I uninstalled all nvidia drivers, deleted premiere pro and AME, cleaned windows registry and started all over again, with no luck. 

After the clean install, no mather how I test, I get the same results: The software encoded versions end up being bigger in size (almost double), they both take the same time to render, and when I look over the task manager the GPU rest at 0% for encode, decode and also cuda cores.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks!