100% CPU in WOW..Help pls

[randomhouse]

I have a Intel DP43TF (i know its crappy) mobo, Duo E8500 3.16ghz, 6 gigs ram and a evga 9800 GT. I usually get 50 60 fps while playing WOW. Now every 20 mins ish ill have 2-6FPS and my proccessor is running at 100% when this happens. as soon as it stops 100% usage the fps jumps back up to 50-60FPS.

Does anyone know why this is happening??

 

[RavenSEAL]

Your CPU is getting hammered because you don't have a dedicated GPU to handle the graphics?

Get this for $40(after MIR) and you shouldn't have any more issues.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-533-_-Product

 

[CLite]

Your CPU is getting hammered because you don't have a dedicated GPU to handle the graphics?

a evga 9800 GT

It appears he does. Does the every 20 minutes thing happen only when WoW is up? If so does it only happen in certain zones?

 

[RavenSEAL]

It appears he does. Does the every 20 minutes thing happen only when WoW is up? If so does it only happen in certain zones?

Oh, i completely missed that, my bad OP. I need some coffee.

 

[eLiu]

Do you know what process(es) is eating up those cpu cycles?

Maybe your antivirus is flaring up for whatever the reason... that's usually the first program I blame, lol.

 

[NoQuarter]

Try it with no addons loaded.

 

[randomhouse]

Do you know what process(es) is eating up those cpu cycles? Maybe your antivirus is flaring up for whatever the reason... that's usually the first program I blame, lol.

No, i havent a clue. i know wow uses close to a gig of ram most of the time. and the antivirus when i look is using a 1/4 of that and i have it running in game mode. if its any help i have Kapersky Internet Security 2010. and wow is fully trusted.

It appears he does. Does the every 20 minutes thing happen only when WoW is up? If so does it only happen in certain zones?

Yes only when WoW is loaded and the zone has no effect, dungeons, cities, or in the sky with no visiable scenery.

And ill try with no addons and let you know.

 

[NoQuarter]

If it is an addon, there used to be another addon that tracks how much memory each addon is using as well as how many cpu cycles each addon is using, you can leave it open and check which one spikes when you have that hiccup.

Also you said processor jumps up to 100%.. it is WoW using up that 100% right? Task manager should tell you.

 

[SZLiao214]

Yep i'm thinking one of your addons as well. They changed one of my mage addons a few years back and it dropped my fps from 60 to 20s

 

[Soccerman06]

Turn off AntiVirus bs while playing, disable mods, run wow in windowed mode and watch the task manager.

 

[randomhouse]

Turn off AntiVirus bs while playing, disable mods, run wow in windowed mode and watch the task manager

I disabled all addons. with anti virus running, i had the same issue. i then did the windowed mode, ran the resource monitor to watch thread usage. When my game dropped the FPS my antivirus jumped 10 fold on thread usage but wasnt shown as using 100 percent of the proc. However with anti virus disabled I have no problems what so ever.

Im lost with what to change in my anti virus to fix this.

 

[guyver01]

Im lost with what to change in my anti virus to fix this.

There might be a setting to "scan file on access" ... turn that off.

 

[power_hour]

Curious if you actually wiped out your addon folders or just disabled them?

Try deleting them. Also maybe set your AV to not scan the wow process and exclude the addon folders. Could be something it doesn;t like.

Cheers,

 

[randomhouse]

There might be a setting to "scan file on access" ... turn that off

I excluded wow in every area possible. i even tried disabling the Firewall, the Pro active App defense. Nothing worked. The only thing that fixes the issue is to disable my AV while playing wow. Which i do not like having to do one bit.

Curious if you actually wiped out your addon folders or just disabled them?

I disabled them. I still had the issue. I then disabled AV and had no issue. I then re-anabled my addons but not the AV. Had No issue. I then ran AV and had the issue.

 

[exdeath]

Load up Process Explorer, make sure you have I/O Delta Total column showing, and sort, this will show all the processes consuming disk IO in real time. See what processes are eating up both CPU and disk.

Antivirus software is worse than a virus IMO... I'd uninstall it completely and just do a online web scan once in a while. I will absolutely have no software on my computer that behaves as you've described. Get to know your process list inside out, including dlls, download only trusted files (eg: WoW addons are that only WoW addon scripts in a zip file, no .exes for example), and uninstall your antivirus.

Keep an eye on Process Explorer from time to time and monitor running processes, and use a online virus scan software to double check your vigilance. Particularly do both immediately if you know you're intentionally doing something risky like opening exes or anything from P2P sources, etc.

Your hard disk drive servo will thank you and reward you with 10 fold the longevity and performance.