I can be either idle, or fighting, or anything else and it will happen every 5/10 so minutes for about 30 seconds. Some yanks having the same issue: World of Warcraft Forums – 6 Nov 20 High CPU usage recentlyįor some odd reason, ever since Tuesday I’ve had a big noticeable increase in my CPU at random moments. Servers can’t handle the traffic this event causes?

So, imo it’s either WoW.exe conflicting with some other process OR it’s server side issue, as I’ve noticed it doesn’t really happen when I’m playing on low pop realm. Latencymon looks fine when this issue happens I’ve tried different things to solve this, for example:ĭifferent graphics settings (dx11, legacy etc) ** THIS HAPPENS ONLY WITH RETAIL/CLASSIC, EVERY OTHER GAME WORKS FINE facing problems with their very own system as a result of high CPU utilization, will be greatly taken advantage of by avast provider high PROCESSOR. Thus, it’s important to examine CPU usage and causes for high usage before prematurely deciding to replace a PC for a high-performance model. When spikes happen, CPU goes up to 30%, temps 60-70c and fan 2k+ rpm Instead, there may be too many CPU-intensive programs actively running at the same time and the CPU could have reached its usage limit. Normally my WoW CPU usage is at 6-15%, temp 45c and fan 900 rpm. And it even happens when I’m just idling at char selection screen.

And it compares the network drive with several known malware signatures and behaviors during each scan. While installing a new app or downloading a file from the Internet, Avast can perform a scan. It doesn’t matter what I’m doing in-game at the time, questing or raiding. Since the antivirus program performs automatic scans, the CPU usage can keep constant.

So, let us see the methods to solve this problem of. Another reason can be the irregular entries in the Windows registry. Additionally, an incorrect system configuration can also lead to Avast high CPU usage. I don’t have any fps issues when it happens. But, sometimes, these processes can become resource hogging and take up too much of the CPU space and as a result, increase the CPU usage. Sometimes they last 15 secs, sometimes 45 secs. So, since prepatch event I’ve been having these random CPU usage spikes for no reason.

Avast taking too much cpu