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Hello! Each time I open up a game my CPU usage seems to spike from ~30-40% to 90%, and thats not from the game, its from the user tab, is this normal when having a game open? How do I lower my user CPU usage? I'll leave screenshots below to understand it more.
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This is with no game open
Even while playing the game itself rarely goes over 30%, I dont think its normal that "user" is using 80% of CPU, it makes my whole windows extremely slow and so does it make my games, I remember I got this PC brand new, with this game on the highest settings I could smoothly go to 200fps, now I cant even keep stable 60 with this CPU usage issue.
PC specs
Windows 10 PRO
16gb ram 2166Mhz
rx570x 4gb VRam
Ryzen 4 1300x 4core
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I didnt use any external driver installers, all my drivers installed automatically when I got this computer, I manually update the graphics card in the software provided by AMD.
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This is once I opened a game, before I opened it it was all green and said it was capable of handling audio and other tasks.
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Please re-install network drivers from PC support site.
Do you have any third party antivirus, other protection or security tools, and network tools e.g. VPN?
I dont have any 3rd party antiviruses and stuff like that, I have a VPN, but most of time it just stays closed since I dont really use it that much.
The VPN I have is "Private Internet Access"
Please try to uninstall VPN just for test.
Did nothing, uninstalled it and still spikes to high %, restarted my pc even.
