High CPU usage while downloading
I have high CPU usage while downloading. There was no such problem in the past. Looks like EA App is doing Bitcoin Mining. Why not! :/
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no, it´s not fairly normal. downloading via steam or epic or the webbrowser does not cause such high CPU usage. it´s only the EA app in the actual version. but please explain the technical details behind it, why a download with 200 MBits should cause more than 30% CPU Power of an actual 8-core CPU with 4GHz.
A lot of modern installers will compress the file on the server side and then decompress it in real time on the client side, causing this CPU usage spike that is seen. I see this on newer games on 50Mbps links all the time on my 14700KF.
- EA_Leeuw
Community Manager
Exactly that. :)
