Steam Client Webhelper Using Insane Amounts of CPU

#1

dbk

0 Frags – +

Sometimes while playing TF2 my game will stutter like a motherfucker for about a second, and during that time steam client webhelper will use all of the available CPU. Even when it's not doing that, its using like 50% of my system memory. I guess I could disable it, but would really prefer not to.

Additionally, the ingame steam overlay friendslist and chat boxes will randomly freeze and turn black, and I have to restart my game to fix them. Any ideas to fix all this?

Sometimes while playing TF2 my game will stutter like a motherfucker for about a second, and during that time steam client webhelper will use all of the available CPU. Even when it's not doing that, its using like 50% of my system memory. I guess I could disable it, but would really prefer not to.

Additionally, the ingame steam overlay friendslist and chat boxes will randomly freeze and turn black, and I have to restart my game to fix them. Any ideas to fix all this?

#2

Air_

0 Frags – +

restart tf2, close it in task manager are your only options

#3

dbk

0 Frags – +

Air_restart tf2, close it in task manager are your only options

restarting only helps for about 10 min before stutters start happening again

[quote=Air_]restart tf2, close it in task manager are your only options[/quote]
restarting only helps for about 10 min before stutters start happening again

#4

Pum

0 Frags – +

In my experience selecting all the steamviewhelper processes that are hogging CPU and outright killing them fixes the issue. TF2 will freeze in the background and you will hear the sound loop but after a while it comes back and its perfectly playable (albeit if you're in-game refreshing client data with a record fix;stop [or a ds_stop;ds_record if you use the in-game autorecord demos system] is recommended). However to me this only occurs when joining modded/community servers, never on casual/mvm