High CPU, Idle at 50% minimum, Slow Computer and Games

Dlonem

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Mar 13, 2014
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My specs are a Radeon 6770 GFX card, 500W Thermaltake PSU, 4GB of RAM (I'm upgrading soon, like tomorrow) and a Processor @ 2.80 GHz ( I'm getting a new one also very soon. ) my computer is the Inspiron 560 and I've only changed the PSU and added a GFX card.


Okay so my problem is that my computer has been very slow for the past 6 days. I haven't been doing much on it except playing Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead and DayZ (mod) too. Next thing I knew everything was slow to start up and use (program wise) I've searched for viruses and malware with Norton Internet Security, IObit Malware Fighter Pro, Trend Micro (I got NIS recently after the problem) and if hasn't picked anything up.. I think I may have had a virus "Spibot inc." but I believe I removed it.. (Hasn't really changed anything. I don't have many processes running that could cause it because it was a recent thing so any pre-existing thing shouldn't be the problem.. I'm suspicious that maybe DayZ Commander and it's content could be the problem? Because I didn't have the problem before that, I've had it for about a week before the slowness started) I'm not sure to so do! Any ideas?
 
Solution
If it's only been happening for the past week or so and you can't find any malware I'd try to go back to a previous System Restore point, before the slowness occurred. It's possible you could have accidentally removed drivers or downloaded something you shouldn't have.
If it's only been happening for the past week or so and you can't find any malware I'd try to go back to a previous System Restore point, before the slowness occurred. It's possible you could have accidentally removed drivers or downloaded something you shouldn't have.
 
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