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User high CPU usage task manager

Anonymous
2022-01-01T15:13:02+00:00

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

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Igor Leyko 108.3K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-01-03T23:25:53+00:00

    Please try to turn PC off with Shift key pressed when you select Turn off command.

    And you may try so called repaired install. Сreate Windows installation media as described at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-downlo... but do not boot from it, run setup.exe file from running Windows instead. This will keep all your files, apps and settings.

    Please open C:\Windows\System32\drivers folder, add Copyright column, sort a list by this column and show all non-Microsoft drivers you have.

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