CPU usage

[Celegorm]

you say you got more RAM, but I wonder if the old stuff may be bad. Rum memtest on the system overnight and see what it comes up with.

 

[xxc00lmanxx]

ok ill do that memtest at night. but i was looking around too see if i could find the problem. i dont no if this will help but. i open my game up in a window. and leave my task manager on the side so i can see the CPU usage. what i noticed is that when i click on the game window i get 100% cpu, when i click of it i get 7% cpu. i look in processes and the game says it only takeing 17% CPU, and there something called "system Idle Process useing up 97%. but when i click on the game window the Process Idle drops to 80% and the game stays at 17% but i still get 100% CPU usage.. this sound kinda confusing but do u under stand.?. it seems like System Idle is showing me how much CPU i have left. but im not sure.

 

[GhostGT]

ok ill do that memtest at night. but i was looking around too see if i could find the problem. i dont no if this will help but. i open my game up in a window. and leave my task manager on the side so i can see the CPU usage. what i noticed is that when i click on the game window i get 100% cpu, when i click of it i get 7% cpu. i look in processes and the game says it only takeing 17% CPU, and there something called "system Idle Process useing up 97%. but when i click on the game window the Process Idle drops to 80% and the game stays at 17% but i still get 100% CPU usage.. this sound kinda confusing but do u under stand.?. it seems like System Idle is showing me how much CPU i have left. but im not sure.

System Idle process is exactly that: the % that's NOT being used. I don't think the 100% CPU usage is causing your game lag. Maybe its the video card drivers or something else.

Your specs aren't PERFECT for gaming, but I don't think you should get low FPS to complain about.

What sort of fps are you getting, anyway?

 

[Celegorm]

Hmm, maybe it's punkbuster. Try updating punkbuster and see if that gets you anywhere.

 

[xxc00lmanxx]

System Idle process is exactly that: the % that's NOT being used. I don't think the 100% CPU usage is causing your game lag. Maybe its the video card drivers or something else.

Your specs aren't PERFECT for gaming, but I don't think you should get low FPS to complain about.

What sort of fps are you getting, anyway?

Well, what happens is ill play from about 10 - 15 min with out the FPS dropping but once it start it does it more and faster. the 1st 40min i play it drops to about 30-20 FPS ever 5 min then goes back to its normal 120 FPS, after the 30min it start to do it every 3 min and with a FPS of 10-20. after about 1 hour of playing it will go to about 9-15 FPS ever 2 - 3 min and stay like that.. i never tried to play more then 1 hour at a time because the lag pisses me off. The funny thing is, this same thing was happened to me about 2 months ago. what i did was open up my case take the Heat Sink Fan out and clear the dust out of it, i also took out the CPU to see if anything was done to it but nothing was visible from the out side. i put it all back in and it worked till now. i Got a new Heat Sink Fan for about $60 to cool it off . but that didn't help. Now I'm here seeking help.

Oh and my games do not use Punkbuster

 

[GhostGT]

Well I'm thinking it can't be a performance issue at all at this point, because your problem is intermittent. There has to be something that is interfering with your gameplay.

 

[Celegorm]

Really? I thought CS did use punkbuster. Have you tried disableing anti-virus, not sure if I saw that listed in here or not.

 

[xxc00lmanxx]

Like i said before.. i just reformatted so i have no anti virus installed. and i dont no what could be interfering with the game since i just installed a fresh copy of windows... unless the copy of windows i have is bad (it is a warez copy), i dont think i have tried a different copy.

 

[Celegorm]

how are you connected to the internet, is it wired or wireless?

 

[xxc00lmanxx]

I'm using wired internet