Method for the chip-producing machining of a gear wheel workpiece in a machine using a cutting tool having at least two geometrically defined cutting edges, which produce material in chip form on the gear wheel workpiece during chip-producing machining, wherein the chip-producing machining is defined by method parameters, the method including computer-assisted analysis of the production of chips on the multiple cutting edges of the cutting tool; computer-assisted ascertainment of relative forces which will occur on the multiple cutting edges of the cutting tool during the production of chips; optimizing the chip-producing machining to prevent the relative forces from exceeding a predetermined limiting value or reaching a limiting range, wherein adapted method parameters are provided in the scope of the optimization by an adaptation of at least one of the method parameters, and carrying out the chip-producing machining of the gear wheel workpiece using the adapted method parameter(s).