busygamer01

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I always ran ET: Enemy Territory on my pc without any problems. I always checked my cpu usage and it was always at 50-56%. Now for some reason when I play ET my cpu usage is at 100%. This has never happened to me before. My computer has no viruses. Please help me resolve my problem. Thanks.

Abit KN8 SLI
AMD X2 4800+ (socket 939)
1GB Corair XMS RAM
Maxtor 200GB HDD
HIS ATI X850XT
Enermax Noisetaker 2 600W psu
 

busygamer01

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No i don't have any programs running in the background except for Xfire and Ventrilo, but I always had them on and my cpu usage was always at 50-56% not 100%. My cpu usage never reached 100% before. The highest I ever had was 75%.
 

Grimmy

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When using the Taskmanager, use the porcesses tab to help find what is taking CPU resources by clicking CPU twice I think. That way all processes are listed most to less CPU usage.

Usually System Idle Process should be around 99 percent if nothing is being used in the background.

Then by running your other stuff, may help determine what is going on.
 

dougie_boy

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check ur prosses, not the programs. u might have a worm or some spyware running there which is loading ur CPU.


if u dont recorgnise the things running in the back ground google it. most of the time it will tell u whats what...

then use msconfig in run to change what programs u allow to start up and cut down on the background crap running on ur pc.
 

busygamer01

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It's okay I resolved the problem guys. Thanks. It turns out it was the new bios I installed. It was a bad bios, but now that I've installed the original bios back for some reason the utility that shows me my cpu temperature shows me my cpu temperature at 56 degrees C! The utility is a new edition. I think it shows me the wrong temperature. It says my system temperature is at 30 C while the cpu is at 56 C. Something here is wrong. :D