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Bonus points: Have Windows ruin your current shooter session by downloading system updates in the background.
by blueflow 2y ago
Bonus points: Have Windows ruin your current shooter session by downloading system updates in the background.
- high_na_euv 2y agoI cannot think about single time it happened, like seriously Maybe you are using wifi like majority of gamers and blame the wrong thing?
- blueflow 2y agoI'm not accepting your implied premise: That Windows is allowed to use the scarce resources in a way that interferes with the User activity. This is independent of where the resource limit is.
- high_na_euv 2y agoNo, I suggest that there was no update at all and the lags were caused by wifi
- blueflow 2y agoThe update gives itself away by the "Update and Reboot" button appearing half an hour later.
- high_na_euv 2y agoIf you are sure that it was Windows, then you can also disable it
- tasuki 2y ago> Maybe you are using wifi like majority of gamers and blame the wrong thing? What does that mean? For most people, the wi-fi is not the limiting factor for internet speed.
- BlueTemplar 2y agoSure, but "most people" is a low bar : "most people" probably can't even afford a computer with a dedicated graphics card either : the median per-capita household income is only $2,920 per year. As for most people with a less than a decade old dedicated graphics card : I actually do believe that WiFi is a limiting factor for Internet speed.
- high_na_euv 2y agoInternet speed is irrelevant Packet drops and ping spikes are the problem
- kazinator 2y agoPacket drops are not entirely separable from speed. One reason packets get dropped is congestion, and speed obviously helps with congestion, since it is an important determiner of capacity. But, indeed, the speed of an uncongested hop is irrelevant, in that it could slower by some factor, yet without it making a difference to the packet loss.
- dageshi 2y agoI Pause updates for 7 days and run the updates on a sunday morning Windows gotta update sometime
- blueflow 2y agoHow can i do this?
- dageshi 2y agoIt's an option in windows update (for me at least, Win 10) There's a button called "Pause updates for 7 days" I run windows update on a sunday then hit the button again when it's done. Works pretty well.
- danparsonson 2y agoWindows used to let the user choose when they wanted to update - that they force it to happen now is a situation entirely of their own doing.
- dageshi 2y agoYeah cause people just skipped installs forever. That's the reason. And as I said, you can run it once a week and control when it happens.
- e3bc54b2 2y agoPeople skipped updates for a reason. Windows updates are slow as fuck, take forever to download, then forever to install, take your CPU, hog your storage and require multiple boots and MUST be finished after started. On everyLinux distro I've used, updates were single command/click at most, downloaded in the background, cleaned up from storage automatically, never used much CPU and rarely 'required' reboot. Yes my Linux distro is updated twice a week and Windows was deleted after being out of ~updates~ use for 6 months, why do you ask?
- danparsonson 2y ago
- pmarreck 2y agoI think they actually fixed that with Gaming Mode or whatever. Even worse when a modal dialog used to pop up over your game... the way Windows used to constantly interrupt whatever you were trying to focus on drove me nuts (this never happened on macOS or Linux) but I think they also finally fixed that