Curse

Covetous · Jul 09, 2006, 10:48 PM // 22:48

Hey there...my new computer is awesome....here are the specs...

3400+ AMD Athlon 64 Processor
160 GB Hard Drive
512 MB Ram (DDR)
ATI Radeon X1600 Pro GFX

...except there is one problem...my father bought a one year subscription for Norton Anti Virus for it. As many of you know, it is a major system hog.

My question to Norton users is this: How much does this really affect performance (I realize my PC will run GW fine, its just other games I am worried about). And secondly, I realize that you can disable auto protect and internet security for given amounts of time, but does this really help? Thanks!

Narutoscryed · Jul 10, 2006, 09:00 AM // 09:00

yes if you disable the protection for the time that you are gaming .. it will help performance a ton.. always turn off any antivirus when playing an online game ....

Meols Green · Jul 10, 2006, 12:04 PM // 12:04

I usualy disable my anti-virus totaly before i play any game; remember that you cant pick up a virus from playing online games :P

Then when i exit the game and im not going back on it for a while (say im using the internet still) i put the anti virus back on

It helps perfmance A LOT.

sleepy samurai · Jul 10, 2006, 12:37 PM // 12:37

10-15% would be my guess while it is running. It all depends on what type of norton you have installed.

Also the age of the install makes a differance. As time goes on norton av actually slows the computer more and more. And you can not uninstall it fully.

Covetous · Jul 10, 2006, 02:43 PM // 14:43

Thankyou so much...exactly what I wanted to know.

Covetous · Jul 10, 2006, 02:43 PM // 14:43

Thankyou so much...exactly what I wanted to know.

kvndoom · Jul 10, 2006, 02:48 PM // 14:48

If you double up your RAM to 1GB, that will help a lot as well, and having Norton run while playing probably won't affect perfornamce as much.

[hugs my low-resource Norton Corporate edition]

Covetous · Jul 10, 2006, 03:01 PM // 15:01

Lol. Yeah, I plan on buying more RAM when I get paid Thursday. I was just trying to play F.E.A.R. and 512MB just isnt cutting it....lol. Actually, when I exit the game I actually get a message that my system is running low on memeory. Funny thing is, I can run other games, such as Doom 3, on all high settings and never get drops in FPS. Oh well.

sleepy samurai · Jul 11, 2006, 12:23 AM // 00:23

Shaders eat memory. Try running Battlefield 2 then you will understand. It can use upto 700MB ram. Some say more.