CPU Util shot up to 100%

While teaming with 2 SG friends last night, 2 of us were experiencing "slowness" in game play. Team makeup consisted of a Fire Blaster, a Healing Def, and a human War Shade, all level 34. The WS person said he noticed his CPU Util was at 100%, and rebooted. I tried to bring up my own Task Manager, but failed to see it behind CoH. Anyway, after logging out for the night, I saw the Task Manager showing the Processes running at 100%.

I am running XP SP3.

I've never notice this type of "slowness" on a 3 people team before 07/01's patch...anyone else?

This has been happening to me too.

I'm running XP Pro SP3 on a single core processor... and only noticed it after I installed a beta release for a firewall and really started keeping an eye on my system, but when I did I noticed that CoH now jumps up to 100% almost from the updater onwards.

It never use to.... I could have programs running in the background along with CoH, now I don't think I could.

Memory usage also seems to be an issue.

Actually, running at 100% is normal for CoH, it claims the entire CPU even when it doesn't need it.

Other causes of slowness could be server-side slowness because the mission is graphics intensive (seen especially in the 3rd mission of the Imperious Strask Force) or because there is an Internet bottleneck near the server, or just an Internet bottleneck for everyone being a holiday weekend.

Yep. And I know the login screen has been burning around 100% CPU for years. Heck if I know why. Maybe it's doing something to make life a little harder on any keylogging programs out there? <shrug>

Anyway - serious games use serious CPU and/or GPU. That's how it's always been.