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Posted - 2008.09.24 21:53:00 -
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Q6600 CPU 4gig Ram 8800GTX GeForce graphics
Every day or two, when playing EVE online for extended periods of time I notice the whole computer start to really stutter and lag - with a quad core this is something I'm unused to and has only been happening in the last week or so.
During gameplay of EVE my CPU usuage according to Task Manager creeps up slowly to the 70% mark on all four cores. EVE online only appears to account for 15% of this, my services.exe (Normally utterly, utterly docile) starts to consume about 10% to 35% resources and utterly cripples gameplay until I restart the PC. There's a large gap of about 30% of those cycles unaccounted for on the task manager - but its only when playing EVE this happens and the vast ammount of cycles being processed is staggering and bewildering.
An odd problem perhaps, I'm reluctant to do a repair of windows after previous bad experiances doing that with current hardware.
Any ideas? (And no, it's not a Trojan, this computer is highly clean and it's the genuine services running).
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Posted - 2008.09.25 15:53:00 -
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Edited by: Interscene on 25/09/2008 15:54:19 Edited by: Interscene on 25/09/2008 15:53:44
Originally by: Leelo Atriedes What flavour of Windows? What firewall (if any) and what Antivirus program do you use?
What other stuff is active and running? It could be something not related to EVE at all causing this.
Maybe that particular thing that made previous software repair is still there and behind all this?
Its Windows XP, SP2. I'm using an otherwise quite stable Norton Internet Securities 2008. Running nothing else in the background except MSN occasionally.
Aaand that previous XP installation repair disaster was such a bad one that I had to comepletely install a new copy on another hard-drive and delete the windows off the old, can't imagine there's any problems from the old one - it's the new I'm worried about.
Only thing to note is that I do have a problem with my firewall, when I used to run programs like EVEmon it BSOD my PC (resource conflict, I think), Norton technician advised me to set the firewall rule "File-sharing" to allow. Checking the internet events log shows no traffic to and from the PC except EVE and MSN when this spaz attack starts. Whatever it is Might not be EVE related but it happens when EVE is running. Definately no Malware on my computer.
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Posted - 2008.09.25 19:28:00 -
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I have no qualms about kicking off the Norton and Avast looks good - but I can't find a decent Firewall.
I do a bit of IRC work and need to help my friends with FTP of websites, so I can often have a lot of ports open and need something good at intrusion detection.
Can you recomend a decent free firewall? (Panda looks nice, but without recomendation I'm not paying for the full product).
However. Norton hasn't been a resource ***** to me before now, I've only 26 processes running atm and as soon as I close EVE the services returns to normal (ie; Zero).
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Posted - 2008.10.05 01:15:00 -
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I think you are all assigning too much blame to Norton - I clearly said the problem was with windows and services.exe.
I used Hijack this to kill a few extra processes and background parts of the windows program and its drastically got services to something reasonable. During gameplay of EVE Services maxes at about 4% CPU usage now. It must have been some idle piece of rubbish process as part of windows that'd been activated recently by something and now does something to something that needs something. Vague, because I have no idea.
No Norton Process was causing the drain and the Norton logs which I was obessively checking... guess what, all together now "The Logs Show Nothing." NIS 2008 really has behaved itself quite well and hasn't been a ***** to me so far.
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Posted - 2008.10.05 01:17:00 -
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Wait, I just noticed the word filter. I can say shit, but they censor *****?
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