CPU Usage

[Steve09]

Hey, I have a Intel Pentium 4 @ 3.0ghz with HT

When I am in game (Call of Duty 2) the CPU usage goes to around 28% - 30%

Is this normal for while I am playing a game? I also have about 55 processes running at the same time, I dont know half of them.

With the CPU running at 30% is this likely to cause "jerkyness" while I'm playing COD2, because I am experiencing this, but it only started like 2 weeks ago, and when I play Singleplayer with no Internet involved, the game is fine.

Thanks! Steve

 

[snowdog]

just tried cod2 myself again, cpu usage in both sp and mp is 50%, probably course it isnt properly scripted for 2 threads, try disabling hyper threading, also check your connection, as i find my game smoother in mp as sp (ps. also have a 3.0 ghz p4)
55 processes seems a bit much, i am using my current config for over 5 years and just 39 processes...


About the jerkyness: can be anything from cpu to vga card. Try cleanign the background apps to free mroe RAM for gaming, also as i said above try cod2 w/o Hyper threading...

 

[Steve09]

Thanks!

I will try the things you said, but I just dont see why it has started to happen now......

Could a monthly download cap of 2GB also have something to do with it? me and my brother both play COD2 simultaniously and we also have a laptop on our network, so could have we used our 2GB for August.

Any idea when our cap returns to ZERO for September?

Steve

 

[3dfX]

55 processes runnig is a lot concidering XP installs with about 12

Google all of the *.exe if you want to know whats running

 

[snowdog]

Thanks!

I will try the things you said, but I just dont see why it has started to happen now......

Could a monthly download cap of 2GB also have something to do with it? me and my brother both play COD2 simultaniously and we also have a laptop on our network, so could have we used our 2GB for August.

Any idea when our cap returns to ZERO for September?

Steve

Then probably your conenction, when cap is reached internet slows down to 56k speeds usually, 2 gb cap is a very small cap im using over 150 gigs a month myself and have no caps, yeah if you have a cap it will reset starting from next month, so just wait and see i suppose, 55 processes are indeed a lot as 3dfx said, may need to clean your pc to improve overall performance.