Does leaving MSN running while you game have a performance impact?

[neocon]

Does leaving MSN running while you game have a performance impact?

and

If someone PM's while im playing a steam game , will it pop up "over the game"?

 

[Rybo89]

not with that system no

and no as long as your appearing online

 

[Swordfish]

not with that system no

and no as long as your appearing online

Slighlty off topic, why would online / offline appearance make a difference ?

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Everything runs the same for me with MSN on or not, and no, it doesn't pop on if someone messages you while your gaming.

 

[Rybo89]

Slighlty off topic, why would online / offline appearance make a difference ?

because when someone 1st chats to you whilst your appearing offline the message come in front of everything else so it closes down the game

done it to me a few times

 

[chris.dante]

I've had msn send me to desktop a few times no biggy just annoying.

 

[Dark_Angel]

Does leaving MSN running while you game have a performance impact?

Yes.

If you are running a 486 100MHZ with 4MB of ram

Seriously, I don't use MSN. But I do use skype on occasion, and it makes 0 difference to me.

 

[shauncr91]

Probably makes a tiny difference, but nothing worth missing out on messages for tbh.

 

[matty114]

Set your status to Busy, it will not send you do the desktop then

 

[Spunj99]

If you can close it...close it.

Why leave it open unless you need to? It's using resources (bandwidth and RAM mostly) no matter how small an amount (a stupid amount of RAM for such a crappy program now you mention it).

 

[TheVoice]

If you can close it...close it.

Why leave it open unless you need to? It's using resources (bandwidth and RAM mostly) no matter how small an amount (a stupid amount of RAM for such a crappy program now you mention it).

Mine is using 2.7MB as I type this; that's with the window closed. It's not going to make any difference at all.

 

[Noel Gallagher]

Set as busy is more likely to be less affective performance wise.

That is why when you go into fullscreen mode, it sets to busy automatically.

 

[snowdog]

I've had msn send me to desktop a few times no biggy just annoying.

Set msn to auto set you @ busy when you run a fullscreen program.




Anyways, msn does take a very small bit of cpu time, you won't notice any difference though...

 

[Will Lucky]

Occasionally when a message appears it causes a slight slowdown, which works fine for me as that way I know there is a message.

 

[snowdog]

Occasionally when a message appears it causes a slight slowdown, which works fine for me as that way I know there is a message.

lol .

What cpu do you have? A pentium 3 ?

That shouldn't really happen on any modern system...

 

[cheets64]

I just turn it off why do I want someone sending me a message when I am playing a game?

 

[Will Lucky]

lol .

What cpu do you have? A pentium 3 ?

That shouldn't really happen on any modern system...

No No Pentium 4 I'm certain runs at 2.8 lol the whole system is in dire need of replacing. Although switching from a 700X to a 1950X last October stopped the slowdown in most games though.

 

[FerociouS]

because when someone 1st chats to you whilst your appearing offline the message come in front of everything else so it closes down the game

done it to me a few times

yeah iv crashed jets a few times in BF2 because this happened

 

[bledd]

do yourselfs a favour and install pidgin instead, lightweight, non obtrusive and sleek

 

[deadman_uk]

If you want to talk while gaming, use xfire... you can send and receive PMs without the need to minimize your game.

As for the answer of your question, I will say what others have said. With your system, MSN won't have any noticeable hit on your performance.