Crashing after 2 mins, 100% cpu usage? HELP!

[Absinthe Kamachi]

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/Crashing-everytime-I-log-in-after-2-mins-help/qaq-p/1345735

(my original post)

 

I have found that other people have had issues with this 100% CPU usage thing?

does anyone know anything about it?

 

thanks, Abi xx

[valerie Inshan]

Duplicate; http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/Crashing-everytime-I-log-in-after-2-mins-help/qaq-p/1345735

Turn off Norton. There was a communicate from LL nor long ago about problems with Norton. I think LL is working with Symantec about this.

[Faubio Alter]

About that 100% CPU usage. Is your PC doing this after your logged off from SL as well? If so your OS might be corrupted. This is usually caused by a looping process. If so then it maybe be time to reinstall your OS.

You can get more information on that problem here:

http://forums.cnet.com/?tag=mncol;pm

In some situations it might be possible that your CPU is running at 100% in SL especially if you have an older single core processor or slow dual core processor. This would be normal if it were intermittent but it should not happen continuously. Fluctuation should be expected.

When was the last lime you defraged this system or did a check disk on it and ran your full anti-virus software scan? Do those if you have a Windows OS.

Check with your ISP concerning your crashing problem. They can run tests to determine where the problem is. Those crashes look like a connectivity problem to me.

[Whitman Sprocket]

I've been having this problem for a couple of weeks or so, and it's gotten slightly worse with today's viewer update. I'm running between 90 and 95% CPU usage (lots of peaks to 100%) with my avie standing in a skybox. I can leave the avie standing there for 30 minutes or more and cpu usage doesn't come down. I'm not getting any lag - in the sky not moving, 64 meter draw, disabled everything I could think of, and the cpu usage stays very high.  Low, Mid or High graphics don't have any effect on this (except the pc crashes if I ramp up draw distance while the cpu is already at 100). Nothing else running on the pc except for system background and Task Manager.

Windows XP, 1 core P4 three-point-something, 3 usable GB ram, GeForce 9800 GT. My connection is ok and wouldn't explain this anyways.

An interesting thing, Task Manager floats above the SL window. If I click Task Manager to make it the active window, the viewer CPU usage drops instantly  to 65 - 70%. When I make the viewer active, it returns to 90+ instantly. It does that each time.

I'm pretty sure my CPU is going to over heat.