Sudden Performance Drop: SWToR

[proxos666]

@BAYoung

Simplest thing is uninstall avast see if the games are still the same

can always install avast again later

[BAYoung]

@proxos666

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@proxos666 wrote:

@BAYoung

Simplest thing is uninstall avast see if the games are still the same

can always install avast again later

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I haven't done that as there's already a marked improvement on CPU usage since the Avast Service thing was disabled in the clean startup.

I checked if Windows did updates on the days leading up to and since the last time it ran really well and it's not an update; prior to 09-10-2015 the last update Windows installed was in August.

Since it's only the online games being affected could it be an issue with Network components? I'm ruling out the card because if it was a failure there it would be immediate and complete rather than a slow degradation, but perhaps the fault is in the network cable itself?

If not, what else can I look at?

[proxos666]

@BAYoung

If there is an improvement with avast disabled

Is there still issues ?

[BAYoung]

No issues now.

I don't know how or why but there's no issue in SWToR at the moment. Whatever the problem was it's fixed... don't know what happened. Any ideas?

[proxos666]

@BAYoung

Can only surmise maybe a combination of high memory usage and avast tying up resources

Just ensure you have a form of Antivirus installed even if just Microsoft Security Essentials

[BAYoung]

@proxos666

Don't know what it was; glad it's fixed though, whatever it is.

I'm really grateful for all your assistance though. It went above and beyond anything I've come to expect from anyone on the internet so thank you very much!

[proxos666]

@BAYoung

Welcome Mate, Just glad to hear things are running better for you now.

MTFBWU