CPU usage VERY high [Please read!]

[EenBeeFour]

Get your facts straight, an illegal / downloaded version of GTA SA could always contain >hidden< files which do not only make players being banned but aswell make your CPU get high.

My copy I downloaded is pirated, and I am running it on 12x AA with a smooth fps, this contradicts your statement.


@OP

Have you tried using the System Restore before the problem arose to your attention?

Have you also tried reinstalling SA:MP and GTA:SA, as well as Google Chrome

With your Google Chrome, check if you don't have any background tabs (Screwdriver, "View Background Tabs") open. Extensions are known to have their own process on your Task Manager list and can create high CPU usage.

[Jack Rosso]

My copy I downloaded is pirated, and I am running it on 12x AA with a smooth fps, this contradicts your statement.

You do not understand my post, an pirated version of GTA SA can contain files which not only make the game laggy but aswell get people banned, this is not on ALL illegal versions, but there sure are versions on the internet containing these files.

[Darxez]

pt4 is old...

[Julio.]

I've been working on P2s! 

[Link9rly]

I'm running a Pentium Duo E2200 (2.20 GHz) in a stock HP a64000f. It's not a gaming machine at all and it runs San Andreas smoothly.No graphics card either. I have multiple applications running at all times like Skype, Chrome, Steam, and Mediamonkey. I don't know what's wrong with your setup. InternetExplorer.exe sounds suspicious as the real application is iexplorer.exe. I would check which services you don't need along with start up items.

[Teddy]

You do not understand my post, an pirated version of GTA SA can contain files which not only make the game laggy but aswell get people banned, this is not on ALL illegal versions, but there sure are versions on the internet containing these files.

I see your part of the 10% of people who freak on every file they download. Lets be honest, this is an older game not some new game thus not as much as a target for malicious developers. Not to mention, 99% of the virus scanners will detect hidden files, and code which for your information there is never actually any hidden files in such downloads. What you should be worried about is the files you can see that contain malicious code. Thus your statement is 80% false. Yet it never hurts to just buy the game so you know the source is trusted and safe.

In addition, no hidden files can get you banned in GTA:SA. The files you see that are modded may get you banned but again these hidden files doesn't exist.

InternetExplorer.exe sounds suspicious as the real application is iexplorer.exe.

That file is commonly a Trojan (Virus)

Google Chrome's original advertisement contained the fact it used so much less processes than any other browser, they did this by showing only one of the two processes used with each tab. While in reality it uses just the same or more in some cases as each tab normally uses 2 processes ranging from 20k to 40k ram and some sites like Facebook, or Pandora may use 1% CPU. I'm running on a laptop and I always have MSN open, Skype, Firefox with 10 or more tabs, and various other crap open and everything seems to run just fine. Its not a gaming laptop either.

How long has it been since the PC has been reformatted? As in a fresh install? Anything more than a year it might not hurt to backup your important photos, files and other documents and give her a clean start. Also, I know I have this problem after only a few months.

Another thing is, do you leave your computer running over an extended period of time? Such as in excess of 24 hours or more. Some problems may contain memory leaks which would cause such issues. I have this problem often, I restart my computer once a week at the most.

Hope it helps

[Jack Rosso]

I see your part of the 10% of people who freak on every file they download. Lets be honest, this is an older game not some new game thus not as much as a target for malicious developers. Not to mention, 99% of the virus scanners will detect hidden files, and code which for your information there is never actually any hidden files in such downloads. What you should be worried about is the files you can see that contain malicious code. Thus your statement is 80% false. Yet it never hurts to just buy the game so you know the source is trusted and safe.

Incorrect, my whole post contains personal experience with this problem, which the problem was infact confirmed by an Argonath RPG administrator. This illegal version of GTA SA contained an file which did set my CPU to 100% directly when starting up, and it got simply fixed by buying an legal version.

[EenBeeFour]

Incorrect, my whole post contains personal experience with this problem, which the problem was infact confirmed by an Argonath RPG administrator. This illegal version of GTA SA contained an file which did set my CPU to 100% directly when starting up, and it got simply fixed by buying an legal version.

Then you have bad luck.

Nothing I have downloaded illegally has contained viruses/files that got me banned or have affected my computer, because they are the Vanilla versions.

This has also been fixed, so the topic can be locked now if required to prevent further argument/discussion about piracy.

[Roske.]

Try formating disk C:
If anything dosen't work.
 :alert"Tutorial :alert"

-If you are on Windows 7 Ultimate:
Get the original disc in the PC, goto My Computer and RIGHT Click on the C: Icon
There you will see the Format C CMD, but be sure to have the WINDOWS 7 DISC IN YOUR DISC
READER, otherwise you will end up f*!@*ng every thing up.
-If you are on Windows XP
Check youtube for tutorial

[Julio.]

Starky, any suggestions worked?

Another point is, your Harddrive could be fucked :\

[jdixo17]

Disable Hyperthreading in the bios

[Exterminator]

Download HijackThis, http://www.trendmicro.co.uk/products/free-tools-and-services/ this may show if anything malicious is causing it. If it doesn't it seems we have eliminated. Viruses, Malware... and the problem may lie elsewhere.

Please do not recommend Hijackthis or any such tools to anybody, unless supervised by a expert.
Such tools often give false positives, and are given a flexible structure to get less hindrances from malware, hence they can very well do more harm than good in unsupervised hands.

As for your computer starky, optimize it.
Defragment is, clean it via ccleaner, download avast and give it a good scan, update your drivers and such.

[EenBeeFour]

HijackThis is a good program though...

[Exterminator]

HijackThis is a good program though...

Good, but dangerous and outdated.
Modern malware have found ways to trick hijackthis, and hijackthis often gives false positives as high as deleting system32 itself(yes i saw this happen)

[Ted]

Malware can find there ways around anything you assume is safe. As for potential false positives, this is why you check thoroughly.