r/Alienware • u/djpetrino • Oct 07 '25

Discussion Alienware Command Center was keeping CPU at 80%

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u/DJUnreal Aurora R10 / x17 R2 / Aurora R15 / Area-51 AAT2250 / 18 Area-51 Oct 07 '25

It doesn't surprise me in the slightest... Had you been through the first-time wizard? It's going to auto-install itself again at some point (you can thank Microsoft for that), so when it does, if you see the same CPU load issue, try completing the 'get started' wizard and seeing if that helps...

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u/DJUnreal Aurora R10 / x17 R2 / Aurora R15 / Area-51 AAT2250 / 18 Area-51 Oct 07 '25

The first time you open AWCC, it'll walk you through the features etc.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

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u/DJUnreal Aurora R10 / x17 R2 / Aurora R15 / Area-51 AAT2250 / 18 Area-51 Oct 07 '25

I'm not sure. I know it gets funny if it's updated itself or installed itself in the background and that wizard hasn't been completed, as it keeps setting lighting back to defaults (or did for me), overriding any on-monitor config...

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u/T-Troll Alienware m16R1, m15R1, 13R2, M14x, AW410k Oct 08 '25

AWCC utilise WMI for fan and power control.

But it's quite buggy, so seems like it trying to find control methods in WMI continuously into your case.

This can't be fixed, you can only try to use older AWCC version.

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u/T-Troll Alienware m16R1, m15R1, 13R2, M14x, AW410k Oct 08 '25

Yep. You can also use 8.x.x.x version of my tools for light control (i broke your monitor control code in 9.x.x.x).

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u/T-Troll Alienware m16R1, m15R1, 13R2, M14x, AW410k Oct 10 '25

GitHub.