CPU usage through the roof since last patch -

Even just on the login screen - my task manager shows COH using between 92-98% of my CPU, which is also why I think I crash back to the login screen 9 times out of 10 trying to log in a character.

I know it gets that high when I am in the game and playing - but on just the log in screen, that doesn't seem right. All this happened after the last patch.

I've seen that happen before too, but it's been that way since before I can remember. I've never had it "crash" me back to login unless I had the server list up for a ridiculous amount of time though. I'm using a quad-core processor, so when it happened to me, it showed mine at 60% load accounting for CoH only using 2 cores. Once I actually logged in, everything went down a little (One core at 90%, a second at about 40%, the last two around 5-10% each), for a total of less than 40% total usage.

I saw other people post about it in the forums as well. I never figured out what caused it and the prolem came and went on it's own.

Testing it right now shows only about 15% total CPU usage while sitting at the login screen. Logging in brought it to around 37%. Retried a few more times with similar results.

I have had an issue since the launch of I17 that crashed me back to login with no error message on certain zones. Since I recently upgraded my computer, and prior to I17 there was no problem at all, I decided to dig deeper...

So I found that when running even in Windowed mode, and at settings that my old computer still can play without a hitch, I was accumulating quite a bit of information in the Task Manager... To the tune of 1.8 million K! (As an aside, my older computer never gets to this point.)

My best solution was to minimize the window while the game is running and refresh my desktop, and I watch as my usage dropped from that ungodly number to around 25 thousand K. When I returned to the game, it was much smoother, and did not seem to want to accumulate that much memory again (though it will still climb to around 650,000K, but more than acceptable to the alternative.) It may or may-not help, but I found that this works for me, and I figure that someone else may get use out of it.

Good luck!

I just noticed my CPU usage going up. I havent played hardly at all in the last couple months and I have a CPU monitor gadget on my 2nd monitor. even in fights it normally stayed 40-45% (AMD Phenom II X4) now it stays 60-69%. I used to be able to run 2 CoH clients at the same time, now Im worried to try it. hopefully something will get worked out.