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How to debug ATI high cpu?

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I've been experiencing sluggish performance lately on once of my PCs.  While looking in Process Explorer I noticed that TrueImageMonitor.exe is taking 12.5% of my CPU usage.  I've got a quad core processor with hyperthreading so ATI is eating one of my threads.  Overall usage is less than 20% so I'm pretty sure ATI is not the cause, or at least the only cause of the sluggishness, but I'm pretty sure this is not normal behavior.  Any suggestions on how to tell what is going on?

I'm still running build 14110.  I would not be surprised if upgrading makes the loop disappear, but I suspect just rebooting would also make the loop disappear.  I'd rather collect some diagnostic data before destroying the evidence.

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Patrick,

The only times I have seen such behavior is when TI is performing a backup task behind the scenes.  Other than that my machines settle down within a few minutes of startup with CPU down to single digits which is usually my anti virus at work.

Nope.  No backups going on.  Another backup will happen this morning.  I'll look and see if that changes the usage.  The I think I will reboot.

Update:
During and after the backup(s) another task TrueImage.exe joined the party - jumping around from 5% to 15% but usually staying around 12.5%.  So there were two ATI tasks often saturating a thread each.

Now I will reboot.

Update #2:
After the reboot TrueImageMonitor.exe is using 0.05% - 0.2%.
TrueImage.exe is not present at all unless I have the GUI up, and then it uses 0.05% - 0.15%.

Much more reasonable.  Unfortunately, I can do no diagnosis since there is not problem to resolve.