I've had this problem before, but then it went away, but now it's back again. When I play city of heroes, it'll soon eat up all my CPU space and it's not uncommon for me to see 98-99% CPU usage. It hasn't done this for a good few months, but it recently started up.
---System information gathered by
CoH Helper version 0.2.0.2---
DxDiag gathered at May 12, 2012 04:01 (-04:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120330-1504)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Studio XPS 1645
BIOS: Ver 1.00 BIOS A13 PARTTBL
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60GHz (8 CPUs), ~1.6GHz
Memory: 6144MB
.Net Memory Report: 3393MB out of 6132MB available
Page File: 8873MB (3389MB currently in use)
C Drive: (ST9500420ASG) 33602MB out of 466959MB (7%) free
D Drive: (TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-T633C) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7601.17514 (64-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670
Manufacturer / Chip: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. / ATI display adapter (0x9488)
Video Memory: 3825 MB
Driver Version: 8.950.0.0
Driver Date: 2/14/2012 11:17:04 PM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Speakers / Headphones (IDT High Definition Audio CODEC)
Driver File: stwrt64.sys
Driver Version: 6.10.6267.0000
Driver Date: 1/21/2010 8:10:00 AM
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product:
Motherboard Version: A13
BIOS Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
BIOS Name: Ver 1.00 BIOS A13 PARTTBL
BIOS Version: DELL - 6040000
BIOS Release: 20110401000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1119x833
3D Resolution: 1119x833 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: No
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 70, 100
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes
Physics Quality: High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High
World Texture Level: Very High
Character Texture Level: Very High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Unknown (4)
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: High quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: High quality
Occlusion Strength: Strong
Blur: Trilateral
Ambient Resolution: Quality
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 0.105
Music Sound Volume: 0.000
Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 1.000
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: ?
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\NCsoft\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found