Hello tech forums . My friends computer has been having a very odd issue regarding cpu usage. I noticed it when trying to play DC universe online and noticed big fps issues in character creation (all settings being turned down). After that, I monitored resources to see if anything is amiss and soon enough I saw my cpu usage randomnly spiking. Also it easily hits 100% and is probably trying to use more when DC Universe is on. The other odd thing I saw was that the cpu usually operated at a higher frequency than actually being used in resource manager. I have uninstalled Startup toolbar updater thinking it was using too much resources and have used the malware tech support to see if it was a infestation of any kind. No dice, all scans came up relatively clean. My only other thought is that it might be DMA being reverted to PIO or some software issue. This is my last shot before I reformat this frigging labtop >,<. Only thing stopping me is the possibility that it might be hardware, though I can't imagine why. On another note maybe the cpu is just messed up. Whenever it spikes i don't see a reason why...