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    Way or program to tell which app is using video card

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by GQ Ukyo, Mar 25, 2013.

  1. GQ Ukyo

    GQ Ukyo Notebook Enthusiast

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    I think I may have downloaded something nasty over the web... I have Bitdefender 2013 and Malwarebytes and both came back with nothing. When I'm not using my R4 for about 10 seconds (no mouse or keyboard input), my 7970 usage skyrockets. I can tell because my fans turns on full blast after a while. Have GPU Meter installed from addgadgets and its the one telling me my ATI is being utilized and maxing out. I checked my apps and only games are enabled to use the 7970, everything else should be using the Intel integrated. Is there a program or way to tell which app is utilizing the ATI card? I thought I'd try task manager but it only helps with the CPU usage... any help/suggestion would be appreciated. TIA!
     
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    Can you monitor the GPU usage using MSI afterburner or GPU-Z just incase its your widget making the GPU usage high?

    Otherwise you might have been hit by that java exploit that taxes the GPU which is a basically a exploit.
     
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    I think I found it. It was "C:\Temporary\iehighutil.exe". Used Hijackthis to give a full list and while hijackthis.de didn't show that as bad, I knew from the filename it wasn't anything good. I have since deleted the entire folder the file was in and my GPU usage is fine now. No longer being used when I'm not gaming. I'm surprised Bitdefender and Malwarebytes did not flag it as malware. :T
     
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