Checking/Monitoring Performance Decrease?

[johntkucz]

This is related to this thread.

I need a way of monitoring if performance cpu stuttering is going on. It seems like it is as in games the screen stutters when it was smooth before. How can I monitor this or check for this?

What is causing this?

 

[johntkucz]

WTF is this????? It causes half-second screen tears in games about every 5-6 seconds. I just uninstalled AVG thinking that was the prob. AVG nor avast picked up any viruses. WTF is going on?? this is infuriating.

I thought it was poor batteries on wireless mouse (causing movement glitches) but that wasn't it. I put game settings at lowest setting and it still causes the screen-tearing, stuttering every 5-6 seconds or so, so whatever it is it seems to be a high priority task. It wrecks gameplay and it makes multitasking impossible because breaks concentration. This is unbearable and difficult to describe and pinpoint.

 

[johntkucz]

I've been reading up on norton 360 5.0. It seems to have negligible performance impact. And a CPU history/usage monitor. That sounds awesome and precisely of what I am talking about. So I will probably get that, uninstall all other anti-virus, RTFM thoroughly and maybe do a clean reinstallation of entire system but with norton up (to ensure I don't have pre-existing virii. That's prob unnecessary, but this is really annoying).