IntelAudioService High Cpu Usage

Question

Whenever I start up, the fans instantly start up and a process named IntelAudioService takes up around 30-70 percent of my cpu. I've had this problem for a week or so, any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Press Windows key + R

Type: services.msc

Scroll through the list

Select Intel Audio Service

Right click it

Click Properties

Under the General tab, click in the startup type list box then choose 'Disabled'

Click Apply then OK

Open Start > Settings > Privacy > Background apps

Disable all background apps.

Restart to see if makes a difference.

Press Windows key + X

Click Device Manager

Are there any exclamations in the device tree?

Answer 2

As good of a solution of "kill the process" is in most cases it's not really the best of solutions here, unless you don't want to be able to listen to music later.

Any switching or adding/removing of output devices or pausing of audio after killing the audio service for the computer seems to have a high chance of 'breaking' any playback. YouTube will stop, groove music won't start, etc. (Although you might get lucky and have the progress bar move, but you'll be without audio)

It will occasionally let you switch outputs and playback may randomly resume, but that's not how it's supposed to work.

And I'm sorry for saying this, but your answer feels either very automated or like you didn't actually look at the process that was being discussed (as processes like ___ Audio Service or System ____ tend to be slightly important to the computer working properly)

The only thing I can think of is that this is a driver error, but not in the usual sense of a driver malfunctioning. I figure that it's somehow a driver incompatibility error (which is odd considering that, last I checked, Microsoft and Intel worked together to make the computer work).

Answer 3

How would I be able to identify the incompatibility error?