New Patch Slowing Down Your Game? For Mac

Yesterday I started experiencing slow computer performance while playing games. The game in question is COD: Modern Warfare 2, which is the first game I noticed with significant or noticeable performance degradation. The graphics were constantly stuttering and the game feels choppy, although not totally unplayable.

• New Patch Slowing Down Your Game For Mac 2017

• PC/Mac: No maintenance– November 12. Someone on the design team seems to have a fetish for slowing the game down. Unfortunate, and it dampens my enthusiasm. Superior results). But I'll agree with you the server lag as it relates to responsive controls needs to be fixed. But your post seems to assume this is a new problem when it. Highspeed trains slowing down Hey guys, in my endless game I built a high speed line allowing the TGV (and other modded trains, this occurs without mods activated as well) to reach the 300 km/h limit of the tracks.

It hasn't done this before. Initially I thought it was a latency issue, but then it also happens in single player or private lobbies when I am the only player and the host. I've tested my internet speed with speedtest and pingtest and everything turns out perfect. I then tried other games like Starcraft 2 (works fine without said stuttering), COD: Modern Warfare 3 (works fine without said stuttering). Then I started COD: Black Ops 2, and to my horror, the stuttering was very evident, even in the menus (where the globe is spinning, check youtube to see what I mean) and even in-game (custom games with me as the host and NO players). Torchlight 2 also experienced slight graphic performance degradation.

I've tried lowering graphic settings to the lowest and the stuttering still happens. Also, I've checked the framerates and they are good (above 60 fps) so my GPU and CPU should be fine. It was then I read somewhere that McAfee might be the cause so I experimented by turning off OAS and Firewall, guess what? Voila, all games now work at full speed again like before. I then turned on Firewall again and it doesn't affect gameplay. Finally I turned on OAS (On-Access Scanner) and the stuttering returns.

So now I can safely pinpoint that OAS is slowing things down, right? I've also experimented by changing the OAS settings under 'Choose how thoroughly to scan my PC (Advanced)'. I noticed that the setting (before I changed it) was 'Strike a balance between the scan thoroughness and my PC's speed (Recommended)', so I changed it to 'Minimize the effect on my PC's speed, even the scan is less thorough', and this current setting is working fine for me at the moment, with all gaming performance at peak. 1) Now, my question is, was the previous recommended setting the DEFAULT setting? Or maybe a patch changed it? 2) If it is the default setting, then why wasn't I experiencing performance issues before yesterday?

Did something changed? Updates perhaps? Because I sure didn't changed the settings at all.

3) Is this related to my hardware? Is this a sign of my harddisk degrading?

Or motherboard, CPU or GPU showing signs of wear? If my hardware is having problems, I shouldn't even have peak performance with the games even after disabling OAS, right? I need experts' confirmation that my hardware is still working fine. (CPU, GPU, harddisk etc.) Please, any McAfee techs, please do confirm this so I can rest easy as my laptop warranty is valid at the moment, so if I have hardware issues, I can still make a claim, though I rather not as it will be a hassle still.

Thanks in advance for all who's going to chip in! I've just tested my PC again with default (strike a balance) and even 'scan thoroughly' RTS settings and now both are working fine with Steam games. My MSC and Anti-virus are still the same versions but Anti-virus & Anti-spyware engine is now: 1630.0, updated on 28 Aug 2013. No more stuttering nor performance issues. All CPU and memory usage readings are normal with McShield.exe now only using a mere 0.35% max CPU resource and about 200,000 Kb memory capped when the games are running. I will continue to monitor though to see if this problem will recur.

But so far, several reboots later, the problem has not returned. Maybe someone from the development team noticed this and quietly fixed it over the past week?

One of the recent DAT updates must have fixed this because I still have this problem occuring as recent as last Friday. So, the fault lies with an older DAT I suppose, not the MSC version itself. Anyway, thanks to Peacekeeper and Selvan again for both of your efforts. Perhaps you guys can relay and highlight this case to the development team so they can take heed in future not to repeat this. Overclocking uses extra CPU and if you have something onboard that maybe is using extra cycles then stuttering will happen.

I sometimes see it on my machine but according to my Task Manager it isn't usually McAfee that's eating the resources. Technical Support are probably the best people to ask about this and it's free by phone or online chat, linked under Useful Links at the top of this page. Although they sometimes patrol here, it's not always the case, so best contact them. One thing to check first though would be in SecurityCenter Web and Email Protection Firewall Internet Connections for Programs - have all your games and associated software got full permissions? Using the Edit button try turning Netgbuard off for those items to see if it helps. It's best not to for security reasons, but you could try that.

(Hint when at that section, click the word Programs at the top and it will rearrange alphabetically). ExBrit, thanks for your eagerness to help out. I really do appreciate it. Can you please help me confirm, is the Real-time scanning previously set to 'Strike a balance between the scan thoroughness and my PC's speed (Recommended)' or 'Minimize the effect on my PC's speed, even the scan is less thorough'?

Which was the default? Did it somehow changed in a recent patch? If the settings was changed recently by a patch, then it may well explain why things slowed down. But if it didn't, then perhaps OAS is behaving differently now by taking up more CPU resources?

What were Meltdown and Spectre again? Though security researchers found them in 2017, the Meltdown and Spectre exploits only became public knowledge in early January of 2018. While are available, here’s a one-sentence summary: Meltdown “melts” the processor’s barriers between application processes and system memory (which can contain some very important stuff), while Spectre can trick the processor into accessing places in the memory that were not intended to be accessed. If you use anything with a computer processing chip , this exploit could work on your system. Patches were rolled out almost immediately to fix (or, more accurately, “mitigate,” since there is no single fix) this issue, but new versions, especially those involving Spectre, keep on popping up.

Since this affects so many different systems and is such a complex problem to pin down, work will likely continue for a while. The damage: how much speed have we lost? These patches have taken a toll on performance, but it varies wildly depending on your hardware and software setup.

The average impact of the patches over time has, so far, not elicited many complaints, which is encouraging. It’s impossible to come up with an exact average across all systems, and official numbers aren’t really available, but hardware review sites really like running benchmarks, so we at least have that data. Comparing reports from, and, the average impact since the patches began seems to have been quite small. The biggest slowdowns reported were from tests that were putting very heavy loads on older processors, and then only for specific tasks. Overall, testing average use cases rarely showed impacts above five percent.

More patches are being released all the time, though, so this isn’t a guarantee for the future. You can take comfort, though, in the fact that the initial patches, which are theoretically the most major, haven’t done much damage. To get an idea of where your own computer stands, you can use the to quickly check up on the general state of your computer. If it tells you that you’re patched against both Spectre and Meltdown and your computer is “Good,” that means your system is probably not a lot slower as a result of the patches. If it tells you you’re not protected, you should do something about that as soon as possible. For the more technically curious, fire up your favorite benchmarking program, disable your Internet connection (no sense taking chances), and run benchmarks with the patches disabled and enabled.

If you have interesting results, leave a comment! Factors that affect performance loss The patches affect different systems in different ways, depending on how those systems interact with the processors. Again, this is a moving target – new patches and updates are coming out all the time – but in general, these factors will affect your experience.

New Patch Slowing Down Your Game For Mac 2017

Use case: Some aspects of computer performance are hit harder than others. Applications that rely heavily on the processor, like virtualization or cryptocurrency mining, will obviously notice the biggest declines. Processor model: Not all processors are affected the same way. A good general rule: the newer your processor, the less affected you’ll probably be, especially with Intel. Your mileage may vary with AMDs and ARMs. Operating system: Not all operating systems are affected the same way.

Windows 7 and 8 may be the worst hit (if Microsoft’s initial estimates hold true), while Windows 10 doesn’t see noticeable impacts. Mac has been tested less but also seems relatively unscathed, while Linux results vary quite a bit across distribution and kernel.

Which patch was used and when: Different companies put out different fixes at different times, and some of them caused greater performance declines than others. On May 22 nd, in fact, Intel announced that. Conclusion: an ongoing threat The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities have yet to be implicated in a major attack, but it has been found in plenty of existing malware. It might even be more common now than it was before it became public knowledge, as there are Spectre variants out there that haven’t even been discovered yet. UPDATE: 2018-02-01 &: So far, the AV-TEST Institute discovered 139 samples which appear to be related to recently reported CPU vulnerabilities.2017-5715 -2017-5753 -2017-5754 SHA256 Hashes. — AV-TEST GmbH (@avtestorg) Spectre-proof processors are in the works, but there’s no official release date on a hardware solution yet.

For now, the name of the game is “whack-a-mole,” as new variants keep appearing and keep getting patched. The performance impact thus far has been very manageable, but that’s not to say that there might not be more serious issues in the future.

In the meantime, install the software updates, practice good computer security, and maybe hold off on upgrading your hardware until those new chips come out, maybe in a year or two.