If you ever develop an embedded system in a corporate environment, someone will probably tell you that you can only use 80% of the CPU or some other made-up number. The theory is that you will need ...

For the last 2 days my CPU usage pegs out at 100% when I play starcraft. I have no other programs running.I've run Spybot and AV in safemode and come up with nothing. It never used to do this and I ...

CPU usage is a measure of how much work the processor is doing, which varies depending on the specifications of the CPU. CPUs with more power will have a greater percentage of CPU usage. Having more ...

Call of Duty Warzone 2 is an exciting battle royale game, but some PC players experience crashes due to high CPU usage. If Warzone 2 is using 95-100% of your CPU, don’t worry – you can fix the issue ...

A senior Netflix software engineer says one of the most fundamental performance measurement tools we all use when evaluating a system may be completely incorrect. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Microsoft just released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3360 to the Dev and Beta Channels, with Windows Task Manager getting a minor but important upgrade. According to the Windows Blog, “Task ...

When a computer's CPU is maxed out during video conferencing, it may denote either a problem with the computer or a limitation of the device's hardware. Video processing on both the sending and ...

I was wondering if an overheating laptop could cause a CPU to report its always running at 100% and cause a massive slowdown of all applications. You're mixing cause and effect. A laptop with 100% CPU ...

Google has released a temporary fix for a ChromeOS bug that causes 100% CPU utilization in Chromebooks. Last week, BleepingComputer broke the story that the ChromeOS 85.0.4183.108 update caused Google ...