Lag Issues

I typically use Firefox to browse while using a Android Emulator called Bluestacks,in Multi-instance mode to play various games. Lately at random times,my PC likes to go haywire,with significant delays of about 10 seconds between my mouse being moved and it actually responding,browser lag issues,and issues in audio replay where what I'm listening to on You Tube completely goes haywireas the audio quality completely goes to crap. Would there be anyway to find out what's causing this and how to stop in,as right now the only solution I have is a complete system reboot,which is not ideal if I happen to be in the middle of something?My system specs are attached.

 

you would need to know what is eating all the cpu cycles.
one thing to try.... download sysinternals excellent utilities
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/microsoft_sysinternals_suite.html

find and run process explorer. leave it running in the background, minimized,
then when the lag sets in, maximize process explorer and it will show you
the process eating up all the cpu cycles.

good luck with it.

 

Since running Process Explorer I'm noticing that my CPU cycles seem to run in the 75-80% range and even above in some circumstances. Is this something I should be worried about,as it seems rather high to me?

 

if you sort the columns by %CPU
then the process using the most will always show up at the top.
75-80% is rather high, the name of the process spiking CPU usage is what you need.
only then can you start to figure out what is happening.

i have started up my win7 computer, and i open up process explorer immediately,
and i sit and watch for 5 to 10 minutes all of the processes starting and stopping.
you have to know how the computer acts normally, so when something abnormal happens,
you already have an idea in your mind of what is normal, and it can make it easier(?) to identify the problem.

if there is a problem process, process explorer lets you terminate it if you want to.
right clicking a process gives you many options, including a web search of that process.
it's a great program and a real asset when needed. there is even an option to run
process explorer instead of the MS task manager, when you hit crt/alt/del

good luck with it.

 

Blue Stacks eats a lot of cpu cycles one reason.why i stopped using it.and to many ads built in.

 

Well the problem is largely one of my making as I use BlueStacks Multi-instance mode to clone mutiple instances so I can have a few games running at once,and I thought my CPU would be able to handle that. Maybe I need to look at a CPU upgrade in the future,or cut down,as my current CPU seems unable to handle a mere 3 instances at once.

 

BlueStacks is very hardware intensive.

BTW How do you play 3 games at the same time?