

So then i went into services and disabled Avastsvc completely, then killed it in task manager, also killed Avastui.exe. Tried the game, exited, still happening in proc monitor. I disabled ALL shields in Avast, all scans and protections, left all exclusions enabled including adding explorer.exe to the exclusions, but left Avastui.exe running. I only have 3 Steam Games loaded at the moment as Doom took up 50GB of HD space. But i tried another game in Steam and it didn't occur. Incidentally i thought i might have something to do with Steam as well. Then restart Avast without reboot, and it comes back. Then Kill Avast and watch it all go away. But if you have Afterburner up, you can see that the spikes happen when process monitor shows Explorer tries to load the Nv driver.
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You might have to wait a minute or two for it to show up as if your pc starts doing other things there might be some delay in between when it shows. Oh to kill Avastui.exe - Go into Avast Settings Trouble Shooting Disable "Self Defense Monitoring"ĭo all this while off the internet of course ( close web browser ) you should be fine. Just make it shows processes and threads, leave it open and play whatever game you think it's causing it and watch to see if EXPLORER.EXE is trying to load NVd3dumx.dll like every 30 seconds. At the top there's like 4 little buttons for showing threads, registry actions, network activity. To make it easier to see what's going on you want to filter it to show "processes and threads" only.
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I'm going to assume it only happens after you play some game, but not all games.Īll you have to do is download process monitor - from the link pk posted above ( thanks again pk ), it's a legit program.

But at least check what games you are playing when this starts to happen.

You might try all this yourself - or not. So i have no solution but to reboot at the moment. Which might be the AvastSvc service, because you can't just kill that in Task Manager. The kicker is, if you restart Avast without rebooting, it starts to do it. When Avast is not running and i start the entire process of playing the game, exiting ect, it does not occur after exiting Skyrim in process monitor. So however when i do kill Avast completely, it stops happening. Of course none of these are ideal and some are not even recommended at all. Well, the only one i haven't tried to exclude yet was explorer.exe itself but i will try it. Even is "special scan" ( Where there is an option for Screensaver and one for Explorer specifically ) including Skyrim, Nvidia Driver, Afterburner, System32 all to no avail. In Avast i have put exclusions for everything in all areas that there were exclusions available to put! lol. It may happen with other games but the only one that it happens that i tried is Skyrim, which is why i noticed it all of a sudden because i'd been playing it again. If you reboot, with everything running as normal and you haven't played a game yet, it doesn't happen ( to me ).
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One thing we do not have in common is Nvidia driver version, if the screenshot you posted is current.

However while perhaps not exclusively it is actually Avast that is causing it to occur, or a combination of those two, but without Avast it doesn't happen. I started thinking Avast is just doing what it's supposed to and it was just Skyrim and or the Nvidia driver. Later i tried Afterburner and HW monitor together when i realized Afterburner has nothing to do with it. I tried it without Afterburner, no RSS server - killed all those processes ( so no Afterburner at all ) and I used hardware monitor (external program like gpuz, cpuz ect) to correlate each time that Explorer tries to load the nvidia driver with the gpu spikes. It does so at pretty much 30 second intervals.
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So i got Process Monitor and sat for hours messing with this in every combination imaginable, and what happens is - when i run Skyrim - after exiting, Windows Explorer keeps trying to load nvd3dumx.dll - which is Nvidia driver. I tried other games (Alien Isolation/Doom ) and it doesn't happen, only with Skyrim ( for me ). For some reason when i run Skyrim this starts happening. So this is what i have figured out so far.įor me it is basically Avast/SKYRIM/Explorer.exe/NvidiaDriver. First thanks to pk above, i got process monitor ( knew something like this was out there, i think i used it back in Xp days )
