Problem!!!!

[AliasX]

You can see my rig in my signature.

When I have Battlefield 2 open and Norton Antivirus running an Antivirus scan, my game is almost unbearable to play... it lags like a mother. Ctrl alt del shows anywhere from 7 to 79 percent CPU usage. My pagefile usage is a steady 1.16GB. Can anyone see a problem with tjhis? or is it alright?

I just checked again and my usage is at %100.

 

[SlitheryDee]

There's a similar thread here where it was decided that I/O (read HDD) limitations were the culprit. Your processor can handle the task, but your HDD can't keep up with the 2 programs vying for it's services.

 

[AliasX]

If I posted my hard drive, would you be able to tell me if that is the problem?

 

[potato28]

All HDD's have this problem right now...

 

[RallyMaster]

It would be a hard drive problem. While the needle is scanning for viruses on the hard drive, you can't exactly expect it to load Battlefield 2 maps at the same time. Unless you run virus scan on one hard drive and have BF2 run off another, you'll always have the problem when doing those two things. Had the same problem with CnC Generals when I actually played it.

 

[AliasX]

Damn. Is the upgrade that will fix this to get a RAptor, and run games off of that, then save all my crap and do the pansy work on my current hard drive.?

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: AliasX

Damn. Is the upgrade that will fix this to get a RAptor, and run games off of that, then save all my crap and do the pansy work on my current hard drive.?

This would work although yo don't necessarily have to get a raptor to fix the problem. Any other drive would be sufficient as long as you have the files one program is using on a separate drive from the files that the other is using.

 

[Jeff7]

Just do your AV scans at night or something. An AV scan will hit the hard drive constantly, but also the CPU to figure out if the data being scanned is benign or not. One other possible solution would be to open up Task Manager, find the process that controls the AV software, and set it to low priority. The downside is, then BF2 will use up a lot more CPU time, and the AV scan will take a LONG time.
Basically, if you're gaming, don't give the computer other things to do, or it'll stutter. Games generally want the full attention of the computer. Hard drive hits, or CPU interruptions will divert its attention, and that'll manifest as skipped frames.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Lot of great answers hear already

The optimum schenario is use your fastest drive/(raid array) for OS and games, and another storage drive for data and non intense apps. In this case you would be running antivirus on one drive while the fast drive supports the game.

 

[Insidious]

I don't think trying to scan your HD and play a game is going to work for you with ANY hardware configuration.

Why in the world are you scanning while you game?

-Sid

 

[Keysplayr]

You know, all this cool hardware is almost a waste considering we still have to put them behind these relatively slow hard drives. Reminds me of a hamster in a squirrel cage feeding a state of the art jet fighter.

Yeah, its a bad analogy, but some may get the idea.

 

[furballi]

NOD32 is so much lighter than piggy Norton! If the AV is running full-time, then there is no need to do a HDD scan.

 

[n7]

Yeah, HDD limitations man.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Lot of great answers hear already

The optimum schenario is use your fastest drive/(raid array) for OS and games, and another storage drive for data and non intense apps. In this case you would be running antivirus on one drive while the fast drive supports the game.

exactly