Why does some programs on takes up 99% of my processor time.

sillymofo

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Like Star Craft for instance, when I run it, and switch back to task manager, I see that it's taking up 99% of system resources and therefore creates lags. I don't know if this has anything to do with XP not updated.
 

Sunner

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Games will generally eat all of your CPU, it's perfectly normal, after all, why wouldn't you want them to?

If an inactive explorer window does, that's a problem though.
 

KF

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>Star Craft ...I see that it's taking up 99% of system resources and therefore creates lags

Right. You don't want StarCraft creating lags while you are playing UT3 and Doom3, do you?