Windows 10: Windows Updates are ruining my gaming experience.

This isn't an issue of updates causing instability and crashes, the problem that I constantly experience is Windows trying to download and install updates, especially the Windows Defender ones, while I am gaming. They cause insane latency spikes in-game, not to mention that I actually have to quit the game for Windows to be able to download and install said updates. However this doesn't guarantee that a new small update won't be available 10 mins later, also causing latency spikes, nor that the update will be successfully installed. This ruins both, my gaming and Windows updating itself. I enabled active hours, well you can't really disable that anymore, you can only toggle to adjust the active hours automatically. I feel like it doesn't actually do anything.


What do I do about this?

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game performance is ruined in 1903

i am still on build 1809 and i am delaying using 1903 for now because i have been hearing that it ruins game performance. thanks for your tip and i will suggest it to others who are having that issue

 

geforce experience takes an age to load..

Well that's why I asked. Mine is on SSD and takes 11 seconds. Your list of games will not appear if it has not checkd for updated suggested settings for awhile until it checks.

When it says it is refreshing the game list, it is checking, because NVIDIA periodically updates suggested settings. Plus it will look for those for new games you have installed.

So, the less it is run, the slower it will be.

 

Win 10 update ruined my computer

I will gladly dispose of any "ruined computer" that Windows 10 has "ruined". Just ship them to me and I will take care of disposing of the "ruined" hardware!