Will bitdefender slow down gaming?

[jgustin7b]

So I decided to let bitdefender scan my pc, but I'm wondering if it will impact 1080p res gaming?

That's all.

 

[Mark RM]

what's your rig? If you have enough cores a scan won't impact it. But any AV doing a scan in the middle of a game can cause some CPU resources and disk resources to be lower, of course.

 

[jgustin7b]

what's your rig? If you have enough cores a scan won't impact it. But any AV doing a scan in the middle of a game can cause some CPU resources and disk resources to be lower, of course.

The main game I’m using is black Squad, basically a free ripoff of Cs:Go. My system held together just fine when dedicated to gaming in this game with no lag.

Some specs are:
Pentium G4560 (w/ hyperthreading)
Gpu: Gtx 1050

 

[Mark RM]

If it's not actively running a scan I don't see any of the major apps causing a problem for you.

You can test this if you want, disable the AV, bench your game, enable your AV and bench the game again. Compare. Profit.

 

[jgustin7b]

Well, considering bitdefender is rather minimalistic in terms of bloatware and scanning procedures and other crap not to be mentioned (comparing this to IObit on my old laptop, “thanks HP”), it should be fine...I hope. I will do some benchmarking though. Thanks for the tips.

 

[Mark RM]

Most welcome, happy gaming.