AIM Randomly uses 100% of CPU Time

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AIM Randomly uses 100% of CPU Time

Post by spencey82 »

I have an Athlon XP 1800, and aim+ uses 100% of the cpu, every once in a while. It causes music to skip, and it just sucks. Anybody else?
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Post by Big-O Ryan »

Please post more information, as I have not yet experienced this.

When does this most often happen (i.e., what are you doing with AIM? many windows open, just opening a window, are your windows maximized, do you have transparency on, do you have a lot of text in the IM window).

Also, what OS are you using, what version of AIM and AIM+.

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I had 2 windows open, both of which with very little text in them. I am using 2.1.1 Build 59. It just happens randomly. Many times I'm not even using AIM, and just have an away message up. Transparency is off. I'm using XP.
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Has never happened to me.. and I run way more programs at the same time. Does it matter how much RAM one has? I have 512MB DDR.
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Post by Big-O Mark »

How do you know that AIM+ is causing this to happen? Does anything like this ever happen when you're not running AIM+? Did it ever happen when running AIM without AIM+? Finally, what version of AIM are you using?
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Post by Maraklov »

running aim without aim+???

that's blasphemy, mookie.
shame, shame, shame...

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Post by 8*B@LL »

i've seen the same thing atleast a few times, but i think its the aim exe that does it...cant remember. the way to tell is to ctrl+alt+del and look at the processes window, then sort by cpu time. well, thats how you do it on a win2k box, so it probably works the same in xp.

ofcourse, i've also seen windows media player do the same thing, so i think its a microsuck problem.
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The process that's doing it technically, is AIM. It never did it before I installed/ran AIM+. I have 512 MB of ram too, so that isn't the issue (i dunno y it would be either). I am running AIM 4.8.2646.
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uses 100% CPU usage

Post by Daksin »

:x I'm having the same problem as most of you out there. I'm running a 1.0 ghtz AMD athlon with plenty of RAM and a lot of the time it randomly takes up all of my CPU usage. I never have more than 1 or two windows open with not too much in them, and I have to restart and lose whatever I'm doing. In general, my comp runs a lot slower than before I installed AIM+. I run Windows 2000 and AIM version 4.7.2480. Please get back to us.
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Do you mean that your computer is running slowly in general since you installed AIM+, or only when you're running AIM+? Have you tried running AIM without AIM+ to see if this problem occurs without AIM+ now, as opposed to what happened before you installed AIM+? Do you have transparency turned on in AIM+? All of this information would be helpful :).
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Post by Guest »

My computer doesn't run slowly, it just randomly uses 100% of CPU power. Again, this does not happen when running JUST AIM.
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I'm having this same problem. I'm running winxp, and after opening up my windows task manager, I noticed that AIM uses up about 50% of my CPU when I'm running AIM+ and just idling. The memory usage also goes sky high, about 43 K. However, when I don't run AIM+, AIM uses almost no CPU power.
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Post by krazieecko »

yeah im having the same problems AIM+ uses alot of my cpu usually keeps it up at a constant 80-90% at all times and causes alot of programs (mostly iexplorer) to be slow or crash.

i am running AIM+ v 2.1.1 and AIM v 4.8beta
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Post by datumax »

I think I may be experiencing the same with Windows XP Professional, and AIM+ 2.11. I've been using Trillian all weekend and haven't had any problems all weekend.
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Post by hartmanw »

I run win xp professional....when i use AIM and AIM+ it also randomly uses 100% CPU but it reports AIM using it, not AIM+, but it is definitely AIM+'s problem. I has to uninstall both and install AIM in a different directory to get rid of the problem. So now, no transparency :(
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