littlehayes7
Member
+0|6950|Tennessee U.S. of A.
Does Norton Antivirus really hurt the game that bad?

I use it and it takes forever to load...I don't mean it takes 1-3 minutes....I mean I could get snack, finish it, and take a dump and it would still be loading....it seems when its all loaded and I join in, its the sounds that take the longest....the game hiccups a lot while I'm trying to play until its all good and loaded and its smooth as ice.

the kicker is I have a AMD 64 X2 dual processor...with a gig of RAM...is Norton the cause of my problems? I don't want to delete it if it might be.

Last edited by littlehayes7 (2006-08-06 22:53:36)

HulaHal
Member
+1|7068
Try 2gb of ram
S3v3N
lolwut?
+685|6995|Montucky
don't delete it, just go into task manger and shut it down.
Brasso
member
+1,549|7107

[1FR]S3v3N wrote:

don't delete it, just go into task manger and shut it down.
SHUT IT DOWNN!!!! lol

or..... use AVG.

Last edited by haffeysucks (2006-08-06 23:34:51)

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ericcartmanisbest
Member
+24|7016|GREAT Britain
i have norton and its always on, its kind of pointless having internet security if your going to turn it off, and the effect on performace is worth the extra safety dont u think?
littlehayes7
Member
+0|6950|Tennessee U.S. of A.
true....but I had a friend tell me just get rid of it completely cause it sucks....he said windows defender works just as good
[TUF]Whiskey_Oktober
mmmm...Toasty!
+91|7199|Oregon
not only does it suck at catching things, it also adds about 20-30 seconds to your startup time, lags your system (uses memory that should be allocated elsewhere), and runs about 10 processes that are not necessary. go into task manager and delete the process tree, should clear up a good number of processes.

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