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Zach8777
Dec 23, 2022Copper Contributor
WMI provider host sometimes suddenly take 100% CPU and back to as normal after few seconds
Recently when playing games, the game sometimes suddenly got stuck and after a few seconds, usually 5-10 seconds, it went back to normally running. I monitored the Task Manager and found that it was...
dbooher
Dec 27, 2022Copper Contributor
I've been experiencing the same. What are you playing? I've only experienced it playing Need For Speed: Unbound from Steam and I've found that the EA Desktop app running in the background is at fault for a lot of the errors in event viewer. Things mostly seem fine after restarting the computer and launching the game doesn't always cause everything to bog down, so it seems to be some special combination of things which brings things to a halt.
- Zach8777Dec 27, 2022Copper ContributorI met this problem in all the games that I recently played, include Genshin Impact, Rainbow 6 Siege, GTA5, World of Tanks. I think it might be either a system error or a hardware error. I have bought a new SSD and the problem has gone down a lot, but sometimes it still happens.