Ichat 3 canes my proccesor

I was chatting to a friend on ichat (through an audio call) and i wanted to play a game while i talked. so i started up unreal tournament 2004 and when i joined a game it was unplayably slow. i closed the game to check activity monitor to see what was going on and found that ichat was using around 85% of my processor which fluctuated between 50% and 90% just for an audio call! i didn't think an imac g5 2Ghz would be strained so much by this. Is there anything i can do to free up ichat's processor use?

Hi Kyle,
It may be a question of checking the Add-ons you have for iChat.
Also tricks like scrolling Status messages or animated icons can cause a problem.
It would also pay to look at this FAQ and run the Cron scripts if the computer is shut down at night or does not stay Awake if on.
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