Flash high CPU usage

Meepimus · January 14, 2016

My system:

i5 3570k

ASUS Strix GTX 970

8GB RAM

p8z68-v pro/gen3 motherboard

250GB SSD

1TB WD Blue HDD

I've been having CPU issues and I've had applications closing down (assumingly because of maxed CPU usage)

Troubleshooting, I noticed my Adobe flash is using an ungodly amount of my CPU considering I only have 1 twitch stream open. My Firefox Plugin Container seems really high too, sitting at 10% even though firefox itself is only at 9%.

http://i.imgur.com/aC2VoS8.jpg

(This is with the game minimized)

I would've thought my system would be good enough to run firefox, watching a stream in the background, as well as playing a single MMO game. I've never had this problem before. Though I haven't played archeage since windows 7.

Archeage maxes out at about 60% usage.

Since AA is very CPU-intensive, I understand that it would be taxing overall, but I don't expect 1 game and 1 firefox stream to max my CPU and crash my game.

Any observations/tips?