Lag from contacts? CPU spike!
By
Mandu,
Posted on: 2010-08-08 14:32 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
You have Nvidia so try this. Start up services.msc. Do this by typing services.msc into the little search box after hitting the windows button.
Right click on Nvidia Stereoscopic 3d driver service. Select properties and then stop it from running and change it's startup type to manual. It's only useful if you have 3d glasses hooked up to your video card and yet it is set to run all the time. It can also be triggered to max out cpu and ram for seemingly no reason at all.
Also run these two programs and post the results here. CoHHelper and Hijackthis
Don't count your weasels before they pop dink!
The issue is that when I am in-game running around, fighting, etc. I seem to have my CPU running at anywhere between 50 and 70 percent. Never passing 70. Until I click on the Contacts. It consistently spikes my CPU usage up to 95-100%. Frame rate becomes 2-3 fps, network spikes and lots of red lines in the netgraph. I don't know what is causing this.
My computer is a new laptop, N61J, with i5 - 430M processory, Nvidia GT 325M 1GB video card, 4 GB RAM. I am not running any other programs. My computer performance is exquisite on anything and even on City of Heroes until that issues occurs. I have tested it several times and the same results. It does not matter if I have the Ultra settings on or the Minimum settings.
To recap:
before contacts tab - 50-60 FPS, 70% max CPU usage.
after i hit contacts tab - 2-3 FPS, 100% CPU usage.
Then it stays like that until I exit CoH and when i restart it is back to the "before" usage.
I don't understand. Can anyone help me fix this or explain this to me? I am an amateur when it comes to understanding this stuff.