Question / Help OBS using like 20-30% cpu

[travis dean]

Title says it all

 

[xxAssassin349]

It is normal for OBS to use this much CPU. You are using x264, which is a CPU encoder that uses up lots of CPU to encode your video. There are no encoding lag errors, so you are completely fine in terms of CPU.

 

[travis dean]

Cause im losing fps in obs pretty bad in games like siege and a little bit in stalker