PSA: If you upgrade to IE11/DX11.1 with ATI, you probably also want new GPU drivers

[glugglug]

I noticed I had 1-2 logical cores pegged at all times by MMLoadDrv.exe and looked this up to find it was ATI HDMI audio drivers.

Looking through the event log also revealed about a dozen various error messages per second from ACEEventLogSource. It definitely wasn't doing this before a few months ago, so I'm thinking recently updating to IE11 and the new DirectX may have triggered it. I had video drivers from April, which would have predated that release by a bit.

Updating the video drivers to the latest and rebooting solved the issue.

 

[Zodiark1593]

People use Internet Exploder?

 

[glugglug]

Well no, but updating it helps to stop Windows Update from nagging you. And some apps might use it as a COM object embedded in a form.

 

[FalseChristian]

Internet Exploiter 11 isn't all that bad. I use it as my primary web browser. It's gotten a lot better lately. Can't wait for I.E. 12. I think only Google Chrome might be a tad better than I.E. 11.