Soldato
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- 4 Nov 2002
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Hi there, please can you give any advice. My uncle comes rounds tonight with a laptop and says to me that his laptop has a problem with CPU usage, I ask him what he means and he says "well, when I load up facebook using firefox and play my favourite game which is kings of camelot it comes up with an error message about cpu usage and the game runs slow".
This didnt really make sense to me, as my thought process was, facebook+firefox+online flash/java type games, why would that use much cpu?
Anyways I took a look and ran ccleaner, antivirus etc and did all the usual. His laptop seems really fast and everything felt fine but when he did load the game up and showed me how the "farms populate slowly" on the in-game screen, I saw what he was trying to say but still not sure what could be causing it as on his wifes laptop the game runs fine.
I thought of maybe reinstalling firefox and flash/java etc but he said he already did that yesterday, so I've really got no idea how to assist him and I dont play games online or on facebook so wondered if someone on this forum has had the same situation as him and if so how you solved it?
Thanks in advance.
This didnt really make sense to me, as my thought process was, facebook+firefox+online flash/java type games, why would that use much cpu?
Anyways I took a look and ran ccleaner, antivirus etc and did all the usual. His laptop seems really fast and everything felt fine but when he did load the game up and showed me how the "farms populate slowly" on the in-game screen, I saw what he was trying to say but still not sure what could be causing it as on his wifes laptop the game runs fine.
I thought of maybe reinstalling firefox and flash/java etc but he said he already did that yesterday, so I've really got no idea how to assist him and I dont play games online or on facebook so wondered if someone on this forum has had the same situation as him and if so how you solved it?
Thanks in advance.
