Which Antivirus do you use - does it affect Aces High?

[Nutzoid]

I use the bought version of Kaspersky on a win7 64bit system. Renew it every year and haven't had any problems. Another item I use whenever I log into the game is Game Booster3. Seems to keep my FRs at high 50's most all the time.

Nutz

[Wayout]

I have Avast.  I run AH on a 5+ year old laptop with Vista, by running the following batch file before running AH I get a good performance boost.

"SHUTDOWN.BAT"
@ECHO OFF
CLS
NET STOP "THEMES"
NET STOP "Security Center"
NET STOP "Print Spooler"
Net Stop "Windows Update"
Net Stop "Windows Defender"
NET Stop "ReadyBoost"
NET STOP "Superfetch"
NET STOP "Windows Firewall"
NET STOP "WLAN AutoConfig"
NET STOP "avast! Antivirus"
exit

There are probably more things I could shut down but this works well for me.
I do reboot after exiting AH to restore all the settings.

[Skuzzy]

Not a bad list, at all.  All are either resource intensive or interfere with network comms, or both.

[Pudgie]

I use the bought version of Kaspersky on a win7 64bit system. Renew it every year and haven't had any problems. Another item I use whenever I log into the game is Game Booster3. Seems to keep my FRs at high 50's most all the time.

Nutz

I use Kaspersky as well w/o issues.

[Denniss]

I use Kaspersky as well w/o issues.

Test another a/v program and be surprised how fast your computer becomes.

[Blagard]

Questions for Wayout and/or Skuzzy

Can you run similar batch files in Windows 7 to shut down services that are resource hungry ?
If so, can they not be simply set running again by another batch file?

Edit:
Thanks Wayout for your post in respect of my question - I may give it a try.

[Wayout]

Questions for Wayout and/or Skuzzy

Can you run similar batch files in Windows 7 to shut down services that are resource hungry ?
If so, can they not be simply set running again by another batch file?

I have no idea if it would work in Win7.  Just give it a try and see what happens.  That's what I did for Vista.  If it doesn't work the most you would have to do is reboot.  

Here's a bat file you could use to restart.  

Start.bat
@ECHO OFF
CLS
NET START "THEMES"
NET START "Security Center"
Net Start "Windows Update"
Net Start "Print Spooler"
Net Start "Windows Defender"
Net Start "ReadyBoost"
NET START "Superfetch"
NET START "Windows Firewall"
NET START "WLAN AutoConfig"
NET START "avast! Antivirus"
exit


Other things you could stop/start from a .bat file.  Be careful, turning off some of these will make your machine behave badly.  
You might want to have a look here first.

NET STOP "Wired AutoConfig"
NET STOP "WLAN AutoConfig"
NET STOP "Application Experience"
NET STOP "Background inteligent service"
NET STOP "CNG Key Isolation"
NET STOP "Function Discovery Provider Host"
NET STOP "Human Interface Device Access"
NET STOP "IKE and AuthIP IPsec keying modules"
NET STOP "KtmRm for Distributed Transaction Coordinator"
NET STOP "Microsoft Network Inspection"
NET STOP "Portable Device Enumerator Service"
NET STOP "Shell Hardware Detection"
NET STOP "Terminal Services"
NET STOP "SSDP Discovery"
NET STOP "WinHTTP Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Service"
NET STOP "Application Information"
NET STOP "Application Layer Gateway Service"
NET STOP "CNG Key Isolation"
NET STOP "DFS Replication"
NET STOP "Diagnostic Service Host"
NET STOP "Diagnostic System Host"
NET STOP "Distributed Transaction Coordinator
NET STOP "Extensible Authentication Protocol"
NET STOP "Function Discovery Provider Host"
NET STOP "Health Key and Certificate Management"
NET STOP "Human Interface Device Access"
NET STOP "Interactive Services Detection"
NET STOP "IPSec Policy Agent"
NET STOP "Link-Layer Topology Discovery Mapper"
NET STOP "Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider"
NET STOP "Netlogon"
NET STOP "Network Access Protection Agent"
NET STOP "Network Connections"
NET STOP "Peer Name Resolution Protocol"
NET STOP "Peer Networking Grouping"
NET STOP "Peer Networking Identity Manager"
NET STOP "Performance Logs and Alerts"
NET STOP "PnP-X IP Bus Enumerator"
NET STOP "PNRP Machine Name Publication Service"
NET STOP "Portable Device Enumerator Service"
NET STOP "Problem Reports and Solutions Control Panel Support"
NET STOP "Protected Storage"
NET STOP "Quality Windows Audio Video Experience"
NET STOP "Remote Access Auto-Connection Manager"
NET STOP "Remote Access Connection Manager"
NET STOP "Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator"
NET STOP "Telephony"
NET STOP "Terminal Services Configuration
NET STOP "Terminal Services UserMode Port Redirector"
NET STOP "Thread Ordering Server"
NET STOP "TPM Base Services"
NET STOP "Windows Cardspace"
NET STOP "Windows Color System"
NET STOP "Windows Connect Now"
NET STOP "Windows Driver Foundation"
NET STOP "Windows Event Collector"
NET STOP "Windows Image Acquisition"
NET STOP "Windows Installer"
NET STOP "Windows Module Installer"
NET STOP "Windows Presentation Foundation Font Cache 3.0.0.0"
NET STOP "Windows Search"

[Getback]

AVast caused me endless issues. I dumped it. I don't use anything at the moment but will use Eset when I get one.

[Fulcrum]

I use batch files to start all of my simulation games and to launch the associated Helios* profile for that specific game.  While I've used Game Booster in the past I decided to incorporate some of the ideas from this thread into the batch files.  The following is the script I now use to launch Aces High....hopefully it will give some of you ideas to work off.

----

@echo off
cls

REM --- SECTION I: STOP SERVICES ---
ECHO Stopping services to enhance game performance....
ECHO.

NET STOP "Security Center"
NET STOP "Print Spooler"
Net Stop "Windows Update"
Net Stop "Windows Defender"
NET Stop "ReadyBoost"
NET STOP "Superfetch"
NET STOP "Windows Firewall"
NET STOP "Apple Mobile Device"
NET STOP "Adobe Flash Player Update Service"
NET STOP "Adobe Acrobat Update Service"


ECHO Stopping Avast Antivirus:  Click "Yes" when prompted to do so...
ECHO.
NET STOP "avast! Antivirus"

REM --- END SECTION I ---

REM --- SECTION II: START HELIOS PROFILE & GAME ---
cls
ECHO Starting Helios Profile and Aces High....
ECHO.

C:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\SCSimulations\Helios"
start HeliosControlCenter.exe -d Helios "H:\Documents\Helios\Profiles\AcesHigh.hpf"
E:
cd "E:\Games\Aces High"
start /wait aceshigh.exe

REM -- END SECTION II --


REM --- SECTION III: STOP HELIOS AND RESTART SERVICES ---
cls
ECHO Stopping Helios....
ECHO.

pskill -t HeliosControlCenter.exe

ECHO Restarting services....
ECHO.

NET START "Security Center"
NET START "Print Spooler"
Net StART "Windows Update"
Net START "Windows Defender"
NET START "ReadyBoost"
NET START "Superfetch"
NET START "Windows Firewall"
NET START "avast! Antivirus"
NET START "Apple Mobile Device"
NET START "Adobe Flash Player Update Service"
NET START "Adobe Acrobat Update Service"

REM --- END SECTION III ---




* http://www.gadrocsworkshop.com/helios/

[MrRiplEy[H]]

My game booster is like this:

Boot up windows. Play.

Using this method I can get pegged 60fps easily using everything but the full environment slider.

[MADe]

http://askleo.com/do-i-need-to-stop-using-microsoft-security-essentials/