Guild wars go up to 50% cpu usage

Originally Posted by IKA Q

Any background programs ?

Originally Posted by xMinimalism

I had a problem before the new year with my FPS in Modern Warfare 2, as well as other games on my computer. I did everything I thought of (from updating video card drivers to downloading special software that is supposed to [but did not] diagnose my problem).

One question you need to answer before reading the rest of this post, is have you played Guild Wars without this problem prior to now?

Another question you need to answer before reading the rest of this post, is does your computer meet the requirements necessary to play this game?
List of System Requirements (Wiki)
(It looks as if your computer does meet the requirements to play this game; but lack of system specs is sometimes an issue).

My issue was a slight bit of overheating, though your issue may be different. There was just a little bit of dust in my heatsink that sat on top of my processor. A little bit, yes - but enough to cause a problem. I got that cleaned out and it worked like new. (Opened up my tower, dusted it out nicely, used a tool to clean the little teeth of the heatsinks and other tight places).



This could also be one of the issues you are experiencing.

A related issue regarding FPS drop
[It may be Vista, but the priority setting is the same for XP; try this out to see if this is your issue].

I would suggest downloading "Ccleaner" as well as cleaning your computer out of any dust that may be in it. ["Ccleaner" cleans out your registry of errors, and other junk such as corrupt temp. files and the likes]. I would also suggest running a disk defrag, just to ensure that nothing is where it should not be - as well as a malware/virus scan. [I use Ad-Aware and Avira; freeware that actually works].

Hopefully this helps; normally over-heating is the cause of many computer issues, but there could be so many causes in this case. Write back on what happens after.