Not Sure What to make of this

[AdmiralInman]

I am experiencing Serious CPU usage in Games that should not use it.
When Running Games with settings maxed it eats about 80-95% of my CPU.
This is a little puzzling as I have a Phenom II X4 940 Denab and a GTX 295.
I am using Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Latest Drivers Latest DirectX.
Any Ideas Suggestions?

 

[Jonathan_King]

Welcome, Admiral!

Without knowing what game you are playing, I cannot say for sure, but that does not seem unreasonable to me. Try looking up the game online, and seeing if that is normal.

Hope this helps,
~JK

 

[Coolness]

I am experiencing Serious CPU usage in Games that should not use it.
When Running Games with settings maxed it eats about 80-95% of my CPU.
This is a little puzzling as I have a Phenom II X4 940 Denab and a GTX 295.
I am using Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Latest Drivers Latest DirectX.
Any Ideas Suggestions?

Do you mean the CPU or the GPU. On either one, thats not unreasonable. Remember that games require a lot of resources, especially with maxed out settings.

 

[AdmiralInman]

That would be all well and dandy normally but I used to be running XP and it used no where near this amount of CPU. And I Mean The CPU. My GPU is doing fine.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Were you running XP on the same machine or a different one?

 

[AdmiralInman]

Same machine

 

[Jonathan_King]

That might be why. If the game was designed for Vista or 7, and you were playing it on XP, perhaps it disabled some of its processor intensive features.

Also, 7 does use more resources than XP, so resource consumption in general will be higher.

But, as Coolness said, 80-95% is normal for games.

 

[AdmiralInman]

Ok Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Coolness]

Ok Thanks for the heads up.

Did you have the same settings on? Or lower?