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I had a similar issue way back in the Vista days. I could never identify the cause, even after running CCleaner and cleaning up the registry. The issue resolved itself when I did a re-install of Windows (clean install)

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Hey guys
I recently went to play a game of CS:GO, I noticed massive frame drops from 200+ to ~40. After leaving the game, I uninstalled any recently installed programs (Win10 crap) and tried again in an offline server, the problem persisted, but after noticing it is only caused when mouse movement occurs. I reinstalled my driver and tested if this was directly related to CS, or if it occurred throughout. It does; whenever mouse movement occurs my CPU usage throttles to 90% load with the open program(s) usage increasing. 
The phenomenon initially occurred after downloading a game recommenced by PCGamer, some daft 70mb thing, which I deleted as soon as I thought it might have been the culprit but nothing.
After watching my resource monitor/task manager when recreating phenomenon, I have identified that it isn't a single program that throttles the CPU usage, but collectively all running tasks increasing their load, by about double. 
 

I have tried reinstalling mouse drivers/software, as well as using the mouse as a generic usb pointer, which neither worked, I have tried reinstalling AMD video drivers which also didn't work. 
And after Windows Defender had 3 hours to scan, it got rid of some adware/trojan and that hasn't had any effect. 

 

Mouse: Logitech G402 (in case relevant)
Mobo: GA 970-DS3P
CPU: AMD FX 6300 3.5GHz
Ram: Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1666Hz
GPU: MSI R9 280x

Any help would be much appreciated
Gannicius 

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I don't really have anything helpful to add, but moreso a joke - are you sure it's an FX-6300, or an Intel 8088?

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I had a similar issue way back in the Vista days. I could never identify the cause, even after running CCleaner and cleaning up the registry. The issue resolved itself when I did a re-install of Windows (clean install)

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By any chance do you have a scheme applied? Try this:

 

* Go to Control Panel ->Hardware and Sound -> Mouse
* Go under the pointer tab
* Under Scheme, select "Windows Default (System Scheme)", apply

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