Area-51m, AWCC, Nahimic service memory leak

Question

I discovered a memory leak of the NahimicService.exe after the latest update of the AWCC (Alienware Command Center).

Alienware Command Center: Version 5.2.63.0
NahimicService.exe: file version 2.1.9.54485

Any guess from Dell how/when to solve the issue? I stopped the NahimicService.exe. So the AWCC is now missing the sound options.

Alex-XPS12 · Accepted Answer

I have removed all Nahimic instances (32 and 64) thanks to the below :

https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware/m17-R3-Nahimic-services-using-huge-amount-of-CPU/m-p/7727512#M36086

My CPU is free again !

ac3buddy · Answer

I have the same problem with my G7 7590. After updating awcc and realtek drivers, the nahimic service consumes very high cpu making it run so hot.

ac3buddy · Answer

found a work around, uninstall the oc controls first > uninstall real tek > install latest realtek drivers > install latest oc controls.

Now. both the audio profiles and nahimic page is back in awcc, nahimic is running but no longer consuming high cpu.

What i noticed is that with this approach, i can see two nahimic service running, one 32 bit and another 64. Whereas in the problematic scenario where nahimic consumes very high cpu, only one is running.

Try this

RAF65 · Answer

Hi The latest versions as below: Alienware Command Center Suite 5.2.81.0 Realtek 6.0.8929.1 dated 06.04.2020 Nahimic 2.3.8.60549   Let force be with you

Ivory_soul · Answer

@ac3buddy your fix worked! I noticed my Alienware Area-51 R2 was getting hot when idle even with my fans going full blast. It usually NEVER reaches 80c even when gaming and after a week I finally looked at the task manager and noticed both 32 and 64-bit versions were running and taking up 15% CPU each. It also probably explains why I was getting lower frames than average in games. Thanks so much.

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