I used NOD32 for years. No real issues besides some false positives and lengthy scans. Seemed to work well.
I was having this strange jittering issue with a game, and I thought it might be NOD32, so I uninstalled it. The issue went away, so I thought it must've been NOD32.
I got Bit Defender(13 cents on that sale...still got 3 unused keys left by the way).
It worked...pretty good. I guess...it's top rated, afterall. However, in some games, I was getting issues with my screen randomly going black, after having installed Bit Defender. I thought this might be related to my GPU's, so I re-adjusted them, cleaned em off, made a clean install of drivers.
Still happened. One day, a game, FFXI was losing all control of itself for no reason. Turns out, having looked around at the Games website, Bit Defender, for whatever reason, causes the game to lock out the keyboard. SO I uninstalled it, going AV Free for the first time in years. The issue went away and I never got another "Black screen of nothingness'(Sound still heard, game still running, but no display"
However, now I am getting a very odd "OpenGL has crashed" error, from my GPU in some games. What's so odd about it is...is they are D3D games. They also ran flawlessly in the past. GPU & GPU temps are well within reason(CPU 40-45c, GPU1 64-68c, GPU2 51-54c)
So it's not that. I tried changing drivers, doing a full uninstall / reinstall, clean and whatnot. Dunno what the issue is.
So I'm planning to format. It's the be all, end all solution of fixing something. I feel like if it doesn't fix my issue...well then, it's my system and not Windows. Probably did a botched job installing those GPU coolers, though they've lasted 8-9 months now...so strange time to go "You messed up!"
Curious on your guys ideas of a good AV to use. Bit Defender seems like a great program, everyone claims it to be, on forums and such, not just review websites that get paid to write them, actual users say it's good.
I've always liked NOD32 though. Didn't like Avast at all, felt incredibly bloated.
Thinking that going AV free is not a good idea; even if I don't visit all kinds of shady websites and the like.
I was having this strange jittering issue with a game, and I thought it might be NOD32, so I uninstalled it. The issue went away, so I thought it must've been NOD32.
I got Bit Defender(13 cents on that sale...still got 3 unused keys left by the way).
It worked...pretty good. I guess...it's top rated, afterall. However, in some games, I was getting issues with my screen randomly going black, after having installed Bit Defender. I thought this might be related to my GPU's, so I re-adjusted them, cleaned em off, made a clean install of drivers.
Still happened. One day, a game, FFXI was losing all control of itself for no reason. Turns out, having looked around at the Games website, Bit Defender, for whatever reason, causes the game to lock out the keyboard. SO I uninstalled it, going AV Free for the first time in years. The issue went away and I never got another "Black screen of nothingness'(Sound still heard, game still running, but no display"
However, now I am getting a very odd "OpenGL has crashed" error, from my GPU in some games. What's so odd about it is...is they are D3D games. They also ran flawlessly in the past. GPU & GPU temps are well within reason(CPU 40-45c, GPU1 64-68c, GPU2 51-54c)
So it's not that. I tried changing drivers, doing a full uninstall / reinstall, clean and whatnot. Dunno what the issue is.
So I'm planning to format. It's the be all, end all solution of fixing something. I feel like if it doesn't fix my issue...well then, it's my system and not Windows. Probably did a botched job installing those GPU coolers, though they've lasted 8-9 months now...so strange time to go "You messed up!"
Curious on your guys ideas of a good AV to use. Bit Defender seems like a great program, everyone claims it to be, on forums and such, not just review websites that get paid to write them, actual users say it's good.
I've always liked NOD32 though. Didn't like Avast at all, felt incredibly bloated.
Thinking that going AV free is not a good idea; even if I don't visit all kinds of shady websites and the like.
