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[destroyer1910]

For some odd reason my cpu is at 100% when I am just at the menu. I do have a nvidia graphics card and I have disabled the physx thing.  I also turned off my firewall to see if that was the problem.  Anybody else know why my cpu is always at 100%?

[Excirial]

What kind of computer specs do you have? Try running dxdiag.exe and add the information from the first page to this thread. You should get something like this:



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System Information

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Time of this report: 11/25/2009, 20:00:40

Machine name: AEDS2

Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_gdr.090302-1506)

Language: English (Regional Setting: United States)

System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.

System Model: Dell XPS420

BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A02

Processor: Intel® Core™2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.4GHz

Memory: 3326MB RAM

Page File: 2223MB used, 4596MB available

Windows Dir: C:\\Windows

DirectX Version: DirectX 10

DX Setup Parameters: Not found

DxDiag Version: 6.00.6000.16386 32bit Unicode

[destroyer1910]

Time of this report: 11/25/2009, 13:05:50
       Machine name: EAGLE-NEST
   Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090804-1435)
           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc
       System Model: XPS 630i
               BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
          Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU     E8400  @ 3.00GHz (2 CPUs)
             Memory: 3326MB RAM
          Page File: 695MB used, 4513MB available
        Windows Dir: C:\\WINDOWS
    DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
     DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.5512 32bit Unicode

[Excirial]

Ah, stupid me, i forgot the first page does not list video card data. Could i also ask which video card brand and type you have?

[destroyer1910]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285

[Excirial]

Hmm, your system should certainly be capable of running Dragon Age without a hitch. Show a few more questions:



1) Is it the dragon Age process that takes up all the CPU, or is it totalling out at 100%? (Read: Does the idle process also use a bit?)

2) Is it consistently at 100% or is it rising and dropping a bit? Do you notice any significant slowdowns because of it?

3) Does this only happen when you play Dragon Age, or does it happen with every game you play?

4) And last: Did you have any issues with security related software lately? At times they can be responsible for this. Also, do you have any background processes running?

[zacrobmer]

The 100% "bug" hits some people across various builds, there does not seem to be a set CPU type it happens too, some AMD Phenoms, X2 etc get it and some Intel C2D and C2Q folks get it, while other with near the same system do not.



One fix is ALT tab, go to your task manager and change the Affinity from 2 cores to one, or 4 cores to 3 etc. This has helped some people.

[CorusDaar]

Any solid Fixes for this problem yet ?

[CorusDaar]

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System Information

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Time of this report: 11/25/2009, 21:31:55

Machine name: CORUSDAAR-PC

Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)

Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: MSI

System Model: MS-7226

BIOS: Default System BIOS

Processor: AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz

Memory: 4096MB RAM

Available OS Memory: 4096MB RAM

Page File: 3058MB used, 5130MB available

Windows Dir: C:\\Windows

DirectX Version: DirectX 11

DX Setup Parameters: Not found

User DPI Setting: Using System DPI

System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)

DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled

DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 32bit Unicode



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Display Devices

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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

Manufacturer: NVIDIA

Chip type: GeForce GTX 260

DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC

Device Key: Enum\\PCI\\VEN_10DE&DEV_05E2&SUBSYS_82EB1043&REV_A1

Display Memory: 2669 MB

Dedicated Memory: 877 MB

Shared Memory: 1791 MB

Current Mode: 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) (59Hz)

Monitor Name: SyncMaster 2494HM/2494HS/2494HSI(Digital)

Monitor Model: SyncMaster

Monitor Id: SAM04D4

Native Mode: 1920 x 1080(p) (59.934Hz)

Output Type: DVI

Driver Name: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um

Driver File Version: 8.16.0011.9107 (English)

Driver Version: 8.16.11.9107

DDI Version: 10

Driver Model: WDDM 1.1

Driver Attributes: Final Retail

Driver Date/Size: 9/27/2009 16:12:22, 9441384 bytes

[destroyer1910]

I'll try the Affinity to see if that works

But concerning the questions

1)I did not check to see if dragon age was taking most of the cpu usage or all of it.

2)it is consistent about it being at 100% I didn't actually start the game and play it just noticed it at the menu

3) the only other game this has happened on is the Left 4 Dead 2 demo

4) The only thing I have running in the background is my anti virus software Mcafee and steam which is where I bought the game from.

Also steam just effed up so I had to reinstall it including most of my games... awesome just awesome

[destroyer1910]

So I have windows xp and the instructions are for vista how do I set up my cores to do the affinity thing and set it to 1.

[AngelofDeth99]

It's the same in XP. But is there an actual problem? Are you getting poor performance? Just bring up the task manager, right click on the daorgins process, click set affinity, then unselect all but one CPU.

[CorusDaar]

If you do that you get a max of 50% constant cpu usage. So how does that make sense at all ?

[Apex Sammoth]

LMAO I gotta love the community. Seems like there doing more for us the Bioware/EA. You would think with the 3 major problems such as this , CTD and Memory Usage "Leak" Etc. You would think Bioware or EA would of had a patch by now.

[GPA_Nemesis]

CorusDaar, if you set affinity, you're turning off cores. If you kill one of two cores in a dual-core system, you'll run at 50% because the remaining core is still being maxed out.



Yes, I have the same issue, and affinity unfortunately did nothing.



Ah well...

[Jab0r]

I'm having the 100% issue, but I'm not noticing any poor performance in-game.

In fact, I'm not noticing reduced performance out-of-game either - despite CPU being pegged at 100% by DA, it seems to yield to other processes when they need CPU time.