Origin causing severe slowdown of PC?

[thespyder]

Anyone else experiencing issues with the installation of Origin causing the computer to slow down and eventually stop responding?

So recently I thought I had a major virus on my computer. after a full scrub and reinstall of the OS, I reloaded everything and still had the same problem. So I bought a new computer and started installing. The first thing I installed after firewall was Origin. And the new computer started doing the same thing. It is Origin that is the problem.

Anyone else having this issue?

 

[fo0k]

didn't slow my pc down, but i noticed it was using about 15% cpu power, which kept my processor from throttling down.

 

[KMFJD]

nope, works great and is much faster than steam

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I've noticed that from time to time Origin goes and sucks up a bunch of CPU power for no damn reason. Killing the Origin service and then restarting it seems to fix what ails it.

 

[zerocool84]

Not at all

 

[sandorski]

Haven't noticed anything like that. Sometimes ME3 gives me an error when trying to start, but that's it.

 

[thespyder]

It looks like it might not be JUST origin, but the combination of Origin and Zone Alarm.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Didn't notice any problem like this with origin. I did have a problem like this with steam. After exiting it would still use something like 50% CPU. Closing the process in taskmaster solved the problem. This actually happened many times.