One Drive and Latency ?

[Deleted member 1560910]

I mostly game on my pc and surf so having any kind of lag ingame is unaceptable. Will the one drive cloud in windows 10 cause any type of Lag or use resources that could slow/stutter games that use alot of resources ?

 

[Dugimodo]

Not unless you try to install a game on onedrive and run it from the cloud, which you wouldn't do. Also the home version of onedrive just mirrors local folders from your C: drive to the cloud, so all the files are still stored locally. About the only time I could imagine it causing any kind of performance drop is if you change a lot of large files on one drive then immediately launch an online game while it's still synching, but in practice I doubt even that.

 

[Deleted member 1560910]

Not unless you try to install a game on onedrive and run it from the cloud, which you wouldn't do. Also the home version of onedrive just mirrors local folders from your C: drive to the cloud, so all the files are still stored locally. About the only time I could imagine it causing any kind of performance drop is if you change a lot of large files on one drive then immediately launch an online game while it's still synching, but in practice I doubt even that.

I actually have WIndows 10 pro. I see it uploading all this data to my documents about the last game i was playing. The only reason i would keep the cloud is for game saves that dont have cloud saves built into there service. I would have to copy all my saves onto a usb if i have to reformat so that being said the cloud is not so bad

 

[Dugimodo]

Windows pro version makes no difference, there is a onedrive for home and a onedrive for business. They are mostly the same but not entirely. Onedrive for business comes with some MS office licenses, the normal version comes with windows.

I'm pretty sure it won't affect your games, but if you want the save files to be on onedrive make sure the save location is included in the onedrive settings.
By default I think it just does the my documents folder. And as I said it will still store the files on your local drive and then mirror them to the cloud. When you copy files into a onedrive folder you can see the little synch icon over them while they are uploading then it changes to a green tick when it's finished. During that time it does use some bandwidth obviously.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

OneDrive is like any other Windows software that you can run on your Windows PC. When it isn't doing anything, and when it's not malfunctioning, you won't even know it's running, much beyond the icon in the notification area and the entry in the processes list. However, like most other software, when it's doing something, it's going to consume resources.

If OneDrive is syncing with a Microsoft server somewhere, yes, it's going to impact your gaming "experience."

When OneDrive is not syncing, no, it's not going to affect your gaming.

OneDrive, when operating normally, shouldn't have much more syncing to perform than the changes made since the last sync, which can be reasonably often, keeping sync sizes low.

If you open Task Manager, you can see the resource usage of OneDrive. It's pretty easy to tell when it's up to something.