Does antivirus affect gaming performance?

Even " Eset " got a Game mode to toggle on if you wish. Doubt will do anything for me, I got High end processor.

I just unsubscribe to Norton it’s actually making my laptop run very slow and it blocks my internet automatically. Norton is huge and it causes your software to run slow.

windows defender is good enough for 90% of pc users that still have common sense and have good online practices. I personally wouldn't bother with paid antivirus softwares if you have good online practices. Plus nowadays paid antivirus software come with a bunch of useless junk nobody needs like cleaners, VPNs and etc.

For a vpn, use mullvad or proton, they truly protect your data and anonymise you unlike a bunch of other "VPNs"

Hi is it safe to use Kaspersky Free in 2023?

I use AVG free because also has gaming stuff also have malwarebytes free and also of coarse windows security free so far they do quite well haven’t had a problem yet they have catched everything so far

How well does Bitdefender in such a test though? I really like Bitdefender but it feels like it uses more resources than Windows Defender. Or maybe it just feels like that just because of the juicy UI?

I use Comodo beta (classic theme) for w11 as it is Direct I/O compatible. Not sure if it makes any difference but I make it a habit to add hips, containment and shellcode injection exceptions to any competitive online games where low latency matters.

I dunno. If it has full screen detection, I consider it good for gaming lol.

Norton 360 Gaming made my performance much worse. It didn't get better until I uninstalled it.

turning off auto updates for your AV helps to, i manually update mine i remember some av's running an update as i was gaming

An interesting test would be to use some of those online games with kernel level anti cheat. I mention this `cause at least windows defender seems to not like and block those type of games a lot of times. And I say ¨seems¨ ´cause it is not like your average AV blocking malware and telling you about it, but more like the game not even launching and defender process spiking in resource usage, but not really blocking the game, but just getting stuck, like not knowing what to do with it. Then after like 10 times trying to launch said game, defender finally allow it. Notice that the type of game I am mentioning are usually the ones that have more shady anti cheat, stuff like tencent anti cheat. Another thing is that this seems to be more noticeable in 10 gen or older Intel cpus than ryzen or modern intel ones for some reason.

Linux.

There's no real impact in gaming, but Windows Defender slows down web browser a lot. Every page opened is being sandbagged hard. Went to Bitdefender and now everything is fast.

Windows defender is enough! Never thought i would say that cause long time ago it would be the first thing you remove after clean install windows 😅

Wouldn't it have been better to compare Norton Deluxe (non gamer edition) with the gamer edition, since they would have introduced that feature on an already existing product of theirs, and thus it may improve gaming while using THEIR products, in other words, a version of their product that is better for gaming than the standard product.

Thank you, very informative video 🥰

But did you pay for the driver updater? Or the temp file cleaner? What about dark web monitoring? And dark web data deletion? And cloud backups? It's not Norton until you're paying $800/yr for useless services

Interesting..... but the problem I have is a lot of the anti-cheat systems won't even load the game unless I disable my AV. Frustrating....

"Gaming" Antivirus. Thats how desperate Norton have become.

Average gamers would definitely want a 4060 of all things lmao

McAfee, Norton, Avast ... all of them have become so huge, so intrusive and so controlling that they make slower PCs truly slow, and unstable. Some have a footprint over 1GB and also take telemetry on your PCs and habits. So ironically they have become kinda the malware that they are supposed to eradicate.

I've tried various free AV's and usually end up coming back to Windows Defender. In my experience is has little or no impact on gaming performance. I game a lot.

I bought a key for Norton 360 but my current subscription had 6 days left....what a nightmare followed....I had such a bad time, well....I'm going elsewhere! It should be an easy procedure to update....Please do an up to date review of the best for the up coming 2024 season of the AV suites please?

Avira is the best for gaming

I'd say Kaspersky is the lightest

I would have liked to have seen Zero AV or anti-malware software as well....that would have been an interesting include into the stats!!

What games have, and you show some forking laptops lmfao.

And you did not test the NONE gaming version from Norton, that version may be different, they may have put out a gaming version, that scans less, and other tasks, for GAMERS, while games runs, than the normal, so you HAVE to compare the 2 products, and cant just say NOPE no difference, the products from the same company can varry, its like saying Nope Windows Pro and Windows Home got no difference, they got the same background image, there by conclude they are 100% the same...

Baaad video

definetly ESET consum only less than 0,99 system resource

Use ESET

Wonder how they are getting away with such claims, in most country's there are advertising and trading regulations that prohibit misleading and misspelling of items

Thank 🖤🙏🏻

I'm using Kaspersky for years now and have no problem with games.

I’d love to see a comparison with these 3 but also 4: antivirus temporarily turned off (can do this in Windows) and 5: antivirus completely removed.

It’s not good to run without an antivirus program but… what if someone built a custom pc just for gaming with its own internet connection with no other devices on it and antivirus completely removed. I’m not saying anyone should do that but it would be interesting to see what a setup like that would gain. Would it be like 5% more fps or like 25% more fps? Or any at all? Just curious.

The adjective "Gaming" is just a marketing gimic.

In the past, AV's were a nucance sometimes when gaming because some AV's just block certain files of games. Nowdays, I see no need to use a special AV
for my gaming PC other then windows defender.

I was hoping you were going to try Norton for Gamers vs Norton without those options enabled. Also curious if there would be a bigger difference if you could somehow include scheduled scans during benchmarking as opposed to passive AV tests.

Thanks for the video!!

Does Norton depend on Symantec definitions as of date?

4060 is what an average gamer would have🤣🤣

what about no antivirus?
sounds stupid but i use defender control and MalwareBytes so i can just have no antivirus while playing or using CPU

To all gamers in the comments, NEVER install “cracked” games because they all infect your PC at kernel level to load a cryptojacking or ddos bot malwares. ALL of them. And no AV product can detect or remove them, unless you have a SIEM solution (not even small businesses have SIEMs) you wont be even able to see how badly the hackers are abusing you

same company who exposed for spying & using hardware for crypto shady stuff to make money 🙄 i don't trust these shady lier's companies 😅

Thanks for the video. I had suspected it would be marketing fluff, and that seems to be the case.

There is one comparison missing. Normal Norton vs gaming edition

I love Windows Defender and I don’t use anything else anymore. It is lightweight and doesn’t have ads. My old laptop and computers were basically unusable with AVG or other scanners installed

can you make a video about kaspersky while gaming or do you only do videos about avs that have a special "gaming" mode ?

This guy has terminal pinned in the taskbar.
Just had to mention it.

"Gamers" are known to be gullible idiots.

Maybe it has RGB

this is the reason why i would move the windows defender folder out of windows (program files), it just hogs my resources for no reason even if it's turned off in the main settings