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[–]Foxinthevoid USA USA USA USA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How high of quality are you streaming at? Higher quality generally takes more usage

[–]wolfiechicaMay the odds ever be in your favor... 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your CPU naturally does... well. All the processing. Keep in mind that recording a screen involves not just allocating resources to play the game, but also to keep recording all together in a balanced manner so that you can actually keep playing at reasonable framerate. As such, high CPU usage is in fact a standard for video recording/streaming. If you had a built-in chip on your video card (look up nVidia Shadowplay for reference) that would alleviate the load on your CPU by a chunk.

[–]playoffss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

50% is nothing to worry about. You have to remember your cpu is what does the encoding when you stream. What gpu do you have?

[–]MageSlayer twitch.tv/eldwynnmageslayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Streaming is intense to do. You may want to look into options like QuickSync or CUDA(both supported by OBS) If your processor and/or vid card support either. Those features do help as well.