well I know what the general consensus has been over the years. but I'm an avid gamer. So i know all about tweaking my windows for performance. And running them both is not really affecting my gaming, which is all that matters to me. I don't crash at all. as long a they don't idle scan in the middle of my game and thrash hdd which is rare i don't lose any performance, mse did a couple times but not usually all is well. Its the reason I got rid of norton.
Except well like I said all the pcs' in my house recently died in the same week recently. I had to replace a vid card on this one. I did crash for the first time ever on this pc in 3 years the other day. After i deleted everyone of my friends list, which was bizarre. but it might of been from gaming for 12 hours straight and as I launched the next match the pc shut off. Maybe the PSU couldn't take anymore. I check my heat regularly and got no alarms.
But i've never blacked screened besides when my vid card died. And I think i i've only got one BSOD in over 3 years on this pc ever, i can't even remember one ever happening. nothing ever crashes on my pc except firefox sometimes. mwo has been crashing on me, but that was due to a bug in their recent patch which they are addressing.
I'm just very worried about the fact my vid card died, and my pc recently lost power. The psu is only a year old and its a decent corsair model. These are the same symptoms the other pcs have had before the motherboards got bricked. but im' still chalking it up to the fact i gamed for 12 hours straight which I've never done before on this pc lol.
But these things always occur this time of year!
But, ya as far as running them side by side, i notice no conflicts or slow downs in my game performance which is a good barmometer. like i said I've never had a bsod, and have only black screened recently after all the pcs in my house died...
But it certainly feels like the viruses eat up your dvd drive firmware first, we go through them like water in my house, then the vid card and monitor is next to go, then the mobo eventually. I feel like its only a matter of time for mine.
Hopefully i'm just being paranoid. But its like I can't get rid of this virus for years!!
I play intensive games with no issues which is all that matters for me and is the best test
MSE is so lightweight its great. and like I said it found a virus from battlelog.net without me even knowing, i don't want to give up that extra protection.