CPU lagging heavily

BbBoS

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Hi all,

I been playing Counter-Strike lately, and my CPU has been lagging a bit recently when I have been playing it

Usaully it uses 40%~ of CPU power when I'm on although lately it goes all the way up 100% and my frame rate will drop to around 20 sometimes, and it lags heavily so I will end up glitching everywhere. Is there a way to sort this out, would a CMOS reset do it or would cleaning up my HDD a lot help sort it? Also I tend to leave my PC on a lot, and its around 2 years old, would the CPU be dying?

CPU - Core2Duo E8400 Stock clocks

MB - MSI P45 Platinum

RAM - Cheap 4gb Cosair

Thanks for help
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Hi all,

I been playing Counter-Strike lately, and my CPU has been lagging a bit recently when I have been playing it

Usaully it uses 40%~ of CPU power when I'm on although lately it goes all the way up 100% and my frame rate will drop to around 20 sometimes, and it lags heavily so I will end up glitching everywhere. Is there a way to sort this out, would a CMOS reset do it or would cleaning up my HDD a lot help sort it? Also I tend to leave my PC on a lot, and its around 2 years old, would the CPU be dying?

CPU - Core2Duo E8400 Stock clocks

MB - MSI P45 Platinum

RAM - Cheap 4gb Cosair

Thanks for help
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It would help if you could give us the GFX card you have. Though pretty much anything modern will run CS:S, it could still play a roll. Also, have you been making sure to eliminate any major background tasks just to make sure? Your CPU and that amount of memory really shouldn't cause that lag, but I also highly doubt your CPU is dying.
 
I have a HD4870 1gb, although that don't run high when playing as well, so its not that bottlenecking it. Also I have tried closing down background programs, although the 100% thing usaully happens around 5 - 10 minutes into game play as well.
 
Using resource monitor on 7 what is using the cycles? if anything?

as Tom mentioned it could be the RAM, in which case test it.

It could be odd things like indexing.

blimey CSS has run on some really old backup machines and never caused issues. I rekon its been one of the most stable games ive ever played.

after googling it would appear this might be the cause...

What is causing the lag is the "Multimedia Class Scheduller" service. all you need to do is disable the service. sound is dependent on this service so you will then need to run regedit,then find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Audiosrv\DependOnService double click on it and remove MMCSS from the list

Worth a try
 
Windows 7 and I hope its not on the way out :s

I wouldn't worry too much just yet.

You are the third person suffering from lagging recently. All three of them (I am one !) are using W7.

Using resource monitor on 7 what is using the cycles? if anything?

as Tom mentioned it could be the RAM, in which case test it.

It could be odd things like indexing.

blimey CSS has run on some really old backup machines and never caused issues. I rekon its been one of the most stable games ive ever played.

after googling it would appear this might be the cause...

Worth a try

You could well be my hero of 2010. I shall give it a try later.
 
Need to be very careful with the old registry matey.

Few easy steps

type regedit

once regeditor opens

Press Crtl F

Type DependOnService and press enter

When it finds the dependonservice - ENSURE ITS IN THE RIGHT FOLDER - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Audiosrv\

double click another window will open ( see second snip )

Right click and select delete

close and reboot

Hopefully will work for you but hey I did get this from another site and its just an offer of assistance.

good luck
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I done that, although ended up playing BlackOps instead so I couldn't tell if it was server lag or CPU lag which was making the game jolting everywhere, although tomorrow morning will have a go a CS:S
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