Visual Basic Command Line Compiler Running at 100% GPU

Question

Recently the Visual Basic Command Line Compiler is running at 100% GPU as you can see in the screenshot of task manager bellow.

If i end the task it will appear again and running at 100%, how i can solve this? Because if i open a game that requires GPU my PC bluescreens.

What is causing this? Is it the Windows 11?

My GPU is a RTX 2060

Answer 1

I suggest you perform a full scan on your computer for malware. Anything that consumes that much GPU usage can easily be a bitcoin miner. You can use software like process explorer to see what the parent process of this Visual Basic Command Line Compiler is. Alternatively, you can right-click on the entry and select "open file location". From there you can see where the exe (usually vbc.exe) is on your computer. If it is in an odd location or has an odd name, you could try renaming or deleting it while in safe mode then reboot into normal mode. If this actually breaks something else you can always revert to a backed up copy of the file.

Answer 2

Hi Scorz1,

Welcome to the Microsoft Community.

You may upload the blue screen .dmp log via the Private Message **** so that we can see if it will help our analysis and investigation of the cause.

To collect the .dmp log file,

• You could press the Windows+R key combination, paste %SystemRoot%\Minidump, and run it to get the blue screen log.
• If there is no log in the check:

1. Right-click the Start logo button in the lower-left corner, select System, click Advanced system settings→Settings (startup and failure recovery)→Select Minidump in Write debugging information drop-down menu, and confirm;
2. Then check the virtual memory settings, click Settings (Performance) → Advanced tab → Change → check Automatically manage paging file size for all drives → and exit after continuous confirmation.

When the blue screen is displayed again, the log file can be found in the same way as before.

But the Visual Basic Command Line Compiler is to be used in a development environment, which is beyond the scope of support from the forum community. The best place to get help with it is vs-general - Microsoft Q&A. This community caters to IT professionals who can provide advanced troubleshooting steps regarding this program. You may click Ask a question to start.

I hope this helps, and feel free to keep me informed.

Best regards

| Lynn Sun Microsoft Community Support Specialist

Answer 3

Hi Scorz1,

According to the old blue screen log file, We didn't find a clue about the Visual Basic Command Line Compiler, instead of which we found the cause of the GPU crash is a program called discord.exe. Thus to this point, I suggest you reinstall the Discord app and see if the problem is resolved.

And to investigate further, you may collect the latest blue screen log for our analysis.

I await news!

Answer 4

Hey Lynn, so I reinstalled Discord and the problem continues as you can see I opened Fortnite for example and didn't get the bluescreen this time.

Do you know a way to uinstall this? Or any way that I can get further information about it? Because I can't find anything, I only can find problems with "100% CPU" wich is not my problem.

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Answer 5

So I installed MalwereBytes and scan it and guess what, I found 600+ threats and then cleaned it up all, restarted my PC and vbc.exe didn't start. I thought that Windows Defender was safe because I only use it and because vbc.exe was a Microsoft Net thing. Maybe it was a Bitcoin Miner, I thought about that but it was impossible because i didn't install anything bad and I thought that Windows Defender took care...

Thank you Techfreak_ & Lynn -MSFT for helping me have a good day!