It's an odd problem and I'm not really sure what is going on.
Basically, it seems that from time to time the CPU usage of a certain program decreases for no apparent reason, when it should be actually getting higher, leading to performance lag spikes.
I'll give an example to make the situation more clear.
I installed Sleeping Dogs, a game distributed by Square Enix, and while "trying" to play in windowed mode I had the Task Manager running in the background, and from time to time the percentage of CPU usage would decrease, like from 60% to 15%, which would reflect in very low FPS ingame and tthen it would rise again, just for it to come down again after a short while.
But this don't happen with the game exclusive, Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player, browser, heck, everything. I just installed Windows 8 yesterday and not really sure what might be causing it.
Hope you guys can shed some light on my problem. If you need any extra info, be sure to tell!
Basically, it seems that from time to time the CPU usage of a certain program decreases for no apparent reason, when it should be actually getting higher, leading to performance lag spikes.
I'll give an example to make the situation more clear.
I installed Sleeping Dogs, a game distributed by Square Enix, and while "trying" to play in windowed mode I had the Task Manager running in the background, and from time to time the percentage of CPU usage would decrease, like from 60% to 15%, which would reflect in very low FPS ingame and tthen it would rise again, just for it to come down again after a short while.
But this don't happen with the game exclusive, Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player, browser, heck, everything. I just installed Windows 8 yesterday and not really sure what might be causing it.
Hope you guys can shed some light on my problem. If you need any extra info, be sure to tell!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro 64
- CPU
- Intel Pentium Dual T3400 2.16GHz
- Memory
- 4GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series