[SOLVED] Trying to launch a video game shuts down my access to internet

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This may sound like something that's been asked many times before, but I've tried everything I've seen that's been marked as a solution, and nothing helps. Except for one time, which I'll get to in a sec.

For a month or so, every time I start a bigger video game, I've been getting error codes thrown my way that tells me I can't connect to their game servers. When this first happened, I had just moved places where the new location is known for having internet issues, so I thought I couldn't connect to the games because of that, and that I would wait until I moved the computer back. Just the other day I was able to put it back to the better wireless location, but for some reason, it continues to act this way. I have tried starting CoD Modern Warfare, Valorant, and Dauntless, all of them tell me the same thing, but they all are used by different launchers. Another thing I noticed, if I tried to google anything while the game was running, it would never load. (It would tell me I have no internet connection) As soon as I X'd out of the program, it would load the webpage almost instantly. Something else that's weird is that when I load smaller, not so taxing games, it seems to run perfectly normal. I can get games of Among Us and different chess games running without so much as a hitch. Apart from the bigger games I own, I don't have any problems with internet usage, it only throws a fit when I want to play a larger title.

Some things I've tried doing:
Cleared the CMOS [Nothing]
Reseat my Ubit 12000 Mb/s wifi card [Nothing]
Disabling the network adapter's ability to turn off to save power [Nothing]
Reset the network through Windows 10 [Nothing]
Turning off Microsoft Defender, the only firewall I have [Nothing]

The only thing that did work, I reinstalled the driver I found for my wifi card, and after a computer reset, I got a really laggy and buggy game of CoD running that I normally don't go through, but after another computer reset, the problem returned to normal. Any help is appreciated, if you need more specs or anything, feel free to ask
 
Solution
I had a similar problem with my wife's computer.
Turned out to be windows update.
For some reason windows keeps installing a different driver than the one for her wireless card.
Every time she had updates I had to go in and reinstall her network drivers for her to have internet access again.
Finally I turned off windows driver updates and have not had the problem since.
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One other thing, I am in a public dorm room for my second location, and everything has always been fine until I moved back. I am unable to mess with any actual network settings, and I am also unable to run an ethernet cable to my computer as there are no ports in my room
 
I had a similar problem with my wife's computer.
Turned out to be windows update.
For some reason windows keeps installing a different driver than the one for her wireless card.
Every time she had updates I had to go in and reinstall her network drivers for her to have internet access again.
Finally I turned off windows driver updates and have not had the problem since.
 
Solution
Jan 11, 2021
3
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I had a similar problem with my wife's computer.
Turned out to be windows update.
For some reason windows keeps installing a different driver than the one for her wireless card.
Every time she had updates I had to go in and reinstall her network drivers for her to have internet access again.
Finally I turned off windows driver updates and have not had the problem since.
Alright, I turned off automatic driver updates and reinstalled the driver for my specific card, it seems to work for now. Thank you!!
 

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