Question high cpu usage

[Läon]

Hey, i got a problem, my cpu is really high when i open a program it says 20% but the task manager shows 50% when i open discord the same thing it shows 30% and the task manager says 50% or higher! when i play a game it says so too, Fortnite uses 50% and it says 70 or higher when i use a program/s that use/s 15-17% usage it says 78% on the task manager pls help.

CPU: i5 7200u
GPU: 940mx 2gb GDDR5

an image: High CPU usage

 

[PC Tailor]

Welcome to the forums my friend!

There is nothing out of the ordinary there, if you add up all the % on that image you ahve linked, it equals 72.1%
That's because you have background apps and other applications running simultaneously.

 

[Läon]

there is also a probleme, i don't have a screenshot right now but when discord is the only application thats running it uses 30% and the other uses just 3% of the cpu but it shows 56% how?

 

[PC Tailor]

there is also a probleme, i don't have a screenshot right now but when discord is the only application thats running it uses 30% and the other uses just 3% of the cpu but it shows 56% how?

Because the sum of ALL of your applications running is greater than Discords usage.

When you open discord, that's not the only application running.
You have MANY background applications running for other programs and the operating system at the same time, you just don't see them.

 

[Läon]

Because the sum of ALL of your applications running is greater than Discords usage.

When you open discord, that's not the only application running.
You have MANY background applications running for other programs and the operating system at the same time, you just don't see them.

how do i see them?

 

[j3ster]

theres alot of background processes happening, be it lighting software, anti virus, keyboard/mouse/headset apps like icue, many many more

your cpu being just a dual core/ 4 thread cpu its normal.

 

[Läon]

how do i see them?

but it recently happend, my cpu was never above 70% and my laptop is just 1 year old, it happent 2months ago that my cpu starts to go up this high, can you explaine it to me?

 

[PC Tailor]

how do i see them?

They're showing in the task manager image you showed. All of the 6%, 1%, 0.6% etc.
For even more detailed views you can view them in Resource Monitor.

They're not always applications you can or want to shut off mind.
However you can prevent third party applications from starting automatically through the startup tab of task manager.

 

[Läon]

They're showing in the task manager image you showed. All of the 6%, 1%, 0.6% etc.
For even more detailed views you can view them in Resource Monitor.

They're not always applications you can or want to shut off mind.
However you can prevent third party applications from starting automatically through the startup tab of task manager.

the thing is that it just happend, i was watching youtube and google chrome used just 12% of the cpu every time the suddenly it used 30% and all the other programs where using much more ithink 10-20% more of my cpu

 

[PC Tailor]

CPU fluctuations and spikes are perfectly normal and expected my friend.
Yes but COLLECTIVELY they sum up to a large amount.

 

[j3ster]

its the total of EVERY process you have in your laptop, over the year you might have installed new apps sometimes newer version of windows can bump up the cpu usage to some degree.

itll be alarming if its at a constant 100% usage which indicates malware or a virus.

for a dual-core 4 thread cpu i wont be shocked to see it get to 30-70% even for basic use these days.