CSRSS.EXE high GPU usage

[vulgartrendkill]

Hi,

IVe been having this problem for over two months now.

I have a MSI AMD 7970 3 GB graphics card with catalyst 14.9 drivers.

When I start a game (all games are affected) and get to the main game screen, the framerate drops from 60+ to 5-10 fps.

This has happened on GRID Watchdogs and Shadow of mordor.

When I go into process explorer, it shows that CSRSS is taking 50 to 100 percent of GPU processing.

IVe completely removed the AMD drivers using the safe mode method and re installed, the same with driver sweeper, and although this works immediately, when I reboot the problem re occurs.

I've done several virus and malware scans, I only have one CSRSS process running and I'm running out of ideas.

Can any one offer some insight?

 

[rockie_]

Run a virus scan . The last resort - fresh Windows installation

 

[asusdude24]

Hi,

IVe been having this problem for over two months now.

I have a MSI AMD 7970 3 GB graphics card with catalyst 14.9 drivers.

When I start a game (all games are affected) and get to the main game screen, the framerate drops from 60+ to 5-10 fps.

This has happened on GRID Watchdogs and Shadow of mordor.

When I go into process explorer, it shows that CSRSS is taking 50 to 100 percent of GPU processing.

IVe completely removed the AMD drivers using the safe mode method and re installed, the same with driver sweeper, and although this works immediately, when I reboot the problem re occurs.

I've done several virus and malware scans, I only have one CSRSS process running and I'm running out of ideas.

Can any one offer some insight?

This is one of the essential services used within Windows. I suggest doing a virus scan to verify it isn't a virus, but most likely it is not. Here is a link that explains it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client/Server_Runtime_Subsystem

 

[vulgartrendkill]

Thanks for the ideas, however I've scanned the file with malware bytes, kaspersky and another program I cant remember.

I have also sent the file to virustotal.com and I appear to have confirmed that it is the correct file.

I orginally thought it might be some kind of "disagreement" between the AMD driver and CSRSS, but now I have no idea.

 

[rockie_]

Copy all important data from C: to D: . Wipe out D: . Reinstall Windows .

 

[vulgartrendkill]

So back up my important files to a seperate drive and format and re install windows from scratch?

I'll give that a go.

Last ditch attempt!

 

[vulgartrendkill]

I'm afraid that the re install did not solvthe problem.

which leads me to thinking that it might be related to a driver problem?

Csrss.exe is calling on cdd.dll a lot. I'm running the latest catalyst 14.9 driver, from scratch so very fresh.

 

[rockie_]

What are the rest of your computer specs ? If you have a weak CPU , it might overheat and lower the clock .

 

[nige111]

Did you get this sorted at all?

I've been experiencing this exact same issue since friday last week, and a reinstall of windows hasn't fixed it. :/

 

[vulgartrendkill]

I have and I havent.

I managed to find a virus which I removed. I went into safe mode and scanned using every free virus program I could think of This was after scanning with malwarebytes comodo kaspersky etc and finding nothing.

Now, Csrss doesnt even use the GPU whatsoever. Of course DWM.exe has now taken its place and uses 10-15 percent of gpu (the rest being fully taken by the game) It gets the opening screen of Shadow of Mordor down to a horrendous 5fps. When its running ok, its at a healthy 90-100fps.

Back to square 1

 

[vulgartrendkill]

So,

After all the problems I switch off the Aero desktop graphical whizzbangs, and this seems to have worked. Csrss is down to .1 percent gpu usage.

Just to see if it is that, I switched back to Aero, and te problems returnted with up to 70% of my GPU being hogged by the Csrss and DWM orocesses.

This must be a bug with either the AMD drivers or the Microsoft files, I feel.

So, my Windows looks rubbish. But it works.

Yay!!!

 

[vulgartrendkill]

Here I am again with an update.

The above did work but not for long.

I did some more digging and just for lolz I lightly overclocked my cpu (4770k) to about 3.8ghz, because I read that CPU can be a bottleneck.

That was Friday evening and I've not had the problem at all since.

So it appears it was actually my CPU that couldn't keep up with my graphics. Go figure.

 

[smeezekitty]

Keep an eye on GPU temperature



There is no way that a 4770 should have any problem with bottlenecking

 

[vulgartrendkill]

Thats exactly what I thought as well.

Maybe I had some wierd underclocking thing going on.

My graphics card never goes over 65 degrees C.