Webuser Forums: CPU running at 100% while playing online poker!

Hiya,

I would just like abit of advice for a friend if possible. He has a laptop, windows xp professional, with all of the updates (IE7, SP2 etc etc), he runs AVG, Zone Alarm, and has Adaware, Spybot which he runs regularly. I am sure he has a Pentium 3 processor, but unsure as to the other specs of the machine!

Other than those programs, there is nothing else on his laptop as in photo's, music or games etc.

Anyway, he plays on William Hill Poker site. When he is in a 6 pack game (6 people sat at a table) and he looks in task manager his CPU usage runs at about 30%, however when he is playing in a 10 pack game (10 players sat at a table) his computer starts to run really slowly, and the cards get dealt so slowly sometimes he misses his hand because he is so far behind on the game! when he checks his CPU usage in task manager whilst in a 10 pack game it is running at 100%????

Has anyone got any ideas why his cpu usage goes to 100% when playing in a 10 pack game? Is it to do with peer to peer connections? i.e more people connected, makes his pc work harder? (not very technical I know lol) It is frustrating for him as his pc runs ok the rest of the time, just as soon as he plays a 10 pack poker game it runs in slow motion!

Thanks in advance, any help on this is most appreciated

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