Not necessarily, you don't have to be uploading whilst downloading, you can also do that afterwards.
downloading whilst playing games
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No problem at all with utorrent, even back when I had a 3 ghz p4 there was no noticable hit at all with gaming while using utor.
EDIT: Hmm people have stutter
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Didn't u guys have 2gb of ram etc?
Anyhow dump any heavy programs and use utorrent.
Set priority to low in taskman and affinity to only the 2nd core/thread.
And you shouldn't get any lag at all provided the only other thing that utor uses is an hdd and games mostly only load once if you have enough RAM.
Mp is perfectly playable too and impact on pings is minimal (+ 15 ms approx) if you limit it (it= utor) to 20 % of your dl and UL.
Mp is affected but playable on upto 60% bandwith usage with a mild ping increase of about 30 ms ( provided a person has at least 4mb/768k down/up speed in total or more).
Upto 80% bandwith usage approx the game noticably starts lagging and ping will be 100+ ms instead of the usual 15-25 ms.
When you have unlimited p2p bandwith usage it usually slows down everything including browsing wich becomes painfully slow if utor uses either your max possible upload or download, pings erratic, from the low 100's to 800ms.
From my own experience.
EDIT: Hmm people have stutter
?Didn't u guys have 2gb of ram etc?
Anyhow dump any heavy programs and use utorrent.
Set priority to low in taskman and affinity to only the 2nd core/thread.
And you shouldn't get any lag at all provided the only other thing that utor uses is an hdd and games mostly only load once if you have enough RAM.
Mp is perfectly playable too and impact on pings is minimal (+ 15 ms approx) if you limit it (it= utor) to 20 % of your dl and UL.
Mp is affected but playable on upto 60% bandwith usage with a mild ping increase of about 30 ms ( provided a person has at least 4mb/768k down/up speed in total or more).
Upto 80% bandwith usage approx the game noticably starts lagging and ping will be 100+ ms instead of the usual 15-25 ms.
When you have unlimited p2p bandwith usage it usually slows down everything including browsing wich becomes painfully slow if utor uses either your max possible upload or download, pings erratic, from the low 100's to 800ms.
From my own experience.
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I run Folding at home on both cores, I download with Utorrent, I send out a video to the TV across the room, I convert 2 AVIs to DVD, I burn 4 DVDs at once, each beign different data, and I defrag several drives at once... All at the same time, and it does not affect my game play in the slightest... Right up till about 10 minutes ago, Iwas doing this while I was playing on HellGate:London and *** game did not jerk or trouble me once.
The secret has nothign to do with CPU power, thats total tosh because I have been using my PC in this way since my XP2500.
The way to have loads of thigns going all at once in suc ha manner, is to have multiple HDs on multiple controlers
The system I am on right now is only an E6300, but my HDs are organised like this :-
C: = Raptor 36GB ( Windows only )
D: = WD250 ( Apps & Games )
E: = WD250 ( Media )
F: = Seagate 40GB ( Junk rubbish, Backups and well, other crap )
M: = Hitachi 80GB ( Torrents / Downloads - nothign else )
T: = Hitachi 80GB ( ISO Images )
R: + V: + W: + X: = DVDRW
Y: + Z: = Daemon Tools Drives
I have also shared the Page File across multiple drives, but I feel that how the Pagefile is organised, is mostly down to personal choice, but a single fixed size on C: is probably the best option.
Either way, you have one drive, that drive is going to be permanently accessed.
If you have 2 drives, then the load off the drive is halved of course and you will benefit greatly from that. However.. Consider that you may be downloading and that torrent client ( Azureus / utorrent / whatever ) might be accessing the disk for the download in both directions, and when *** PC tried to access the disk for the game / swapspace / whatever, then the system will lag. because the data is still on *** same line.
Having the drives on different busses will help massively.
I mean, copying a 700MB AVI file takes me what? 10 or 12 seconds to go from M: to E:
This is while I am also downloading torrents ( I have mine set to 5DL and 10UL although it doesnt make any real difference ) and converting the AVIs off E: onto D: ( I do the convertions directly to D: and whne they are done, I copy them to E: ready to burn - this makes it much faster in the long run because the data is only going in one direction on each drive... FROM E: to D: - consider this is done twice ( ConvertXtoDVD only uses up one core ) so Im importing 2 AVI files from E: and writing out 2 entire DVDs to D:... If I was using just the one HD, then I will be reading and writing to that one drive and the time it takes will be much higher.
Try it.
Hell, it makes me laugh, but I got a friend, who has a basic Socket A Sempron setup, and I have set his HDs up similarly to how mine are, and he converts his files faster than his mates, and his mate has an X2 4400, purely because his mates 4400 setup only has one HD.
The secret has nothign to do with CPU power, thats total tosh because I have been using my PC in this way since my XP2500.
The way to have loads of thigns going all at once in suc ha manner, is to have multiple HDs on multiple controlers
The system I am on right now is only an E6300, but my HDs are organised like this :-
C: = Raptor 36GB ( Windows only )
D: = WD250 ( Apps & Games )
E: = WD250 ( Media )
F: = Seagate 40GB ( Junk rubbish, Backups and well, other crap )
M: = Hitachi 80GB ( Torrents / Downloads - nothign else )
T: = Hitachi 80GB ( ISO Images )
R: + V: + W: + X: = DVDRW
Y: + Z: = Daemon Tools Drives
I have also shared the Page File across multiple drives, but I feel that how the Pagefile is organised, is mostly down to personal choice, but a single fixed size on C: is probably the best option.
Either way, you have one drive, that drive is going to be permanently accessed.
If you have 2 drives, then the load off the drive is halved of course and you will benefit greatly from that. However.. Consider that you may be downloading and that torrent client ( Azureus / utorrent / whatever ) might be accessing the disk for the download in both directions, and when *** PC tried to access the disk for the game / swapspace / whatever, then the system will lag. because the data is still on *** same line.
Having the drives on different busses will help massively.
I mean, copying a 700MB AVI file takes me what? 10 or 12 seconds to go from M: to E:
This is while I am also downloading torrents ( I have mine set to 5DL and 10UL although it doesnt make any real difference ) and converting the AVIs off E: onto D: ( I do the convertions directly to D: and whne they are done, I copy them to E: ready to burn - this makes it much faster in the long run because the data is only going in one direction on each drive... FROM E: to D: - consider this is done twice ( ConvertXtoDVD only uses up one core ) so Im importing 2 AVI files from E: and writing out 2 entire DVDs to D:... If I was using just the one HD, then I will be reading and writing to that one drive and the time it takes will be much higher.
Try it.
Hell, it makes me laugh, but I got a friend, who has a basic Socket A Sempron setup, and I have set his HDs up similarly to how mine are, and he converts his files faster than his mates, and his mate has an X2 4400, purely because his mates 4400 setup only has one HD.
utorrent uses next to no resources
az uses a fair bit more, and needs java running
you see a bigger difference in performance using older machines (older machines are fine with ut, but crap out with az)
for this reason, i use ut only.
az uses a fair bit more, and needs java running
you see a bigger difference in performance using older machines (older machines are fine with ut, but crap out with az)
for this reason, i use ut only.
i've been using utorrent for several years now, its never troubled my gaming at all, the only thing i ever limit is the up speed, so it doesnt kill my connection, down speed is fine at whatever.
Also i have it run on my second hard drive, so main hard drive where all my programs, games etc are stored aren't affected by the downloading.
I usually leave it going while on games single or multiplayer, unless there is a noticable difference, then it has to go.
Also i have it run on my second hard drive, so main hard drive where all my programs, games etc are stored aren't affected by the downloading.
I usually leave it going while on games single or multiplayer, unless there is a noticable difference, then it has to go.
Depends really.
Net code in different games suffer more than others.
Quake wars for example, I couldn't even browse forums without it giving my brother latency problems.
But TF2 would work fine.
I have 2MB adsl connection, 512 up, I usually upload at 15kB/s when playing games and limit download to 100kB/s.
As for performance, not an issue for me again. uTorrent uses hardly any CPU time and my download speed isn't exactly fast.
Net code in different games suffer more than others.
Quake wars for example, I couldn't even browse forums without it giving my brother latency problems.
But TF2 would work fine.
I have 2MB adsl connection, 512 up, I usually upload at 15kB/s when playing games and limit download to 100kB/s.
As for performance, not an issue for me again. uTorrent uses hardly any CPU time and my download speed isn't exactly fast.
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Holy old thread Batman!!!
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Ok,3 thigns to do now to stop speeds from affecting PC
1 - Get rid of AZ and go with UT
2 - Avoid the NV LAN and especially the NV Firewall
3 - Use a different HardDrive ( On a different line even better )
Job done,
Ok,3 thigns to do now to stop speeds from affecting PC
1 - Get rid of AZ and go with UT
2 - Avoid the NV LAN and especially the NV Firewall
3 - Use a different HardDrive ( On a different line even better )
Job done,
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Ofcourse Downloading Torrents will effect your Online gaming!!!, While downloading torrents its the same as downloading a file off the internet, there both taking your internet usage.
It depends on how fast the torrent is downloading for you to notice any problems while playing online, such as downloading your torrent at 20kbs you wont notice as much if your downloading 100-400+ Kbs.
It depends on how fast the torrent is downloading for you to notice any problems while playing online, such as downloading your torrent at 20kbs you wont notice as much if your downloading 100-400+ Kbs.
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+1 for utorrent too, so much smoother than others I've used.
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1.) He's talking about SP gaming
2.) Look at the date of the post
Ooops, well then it wont effect it at all until the download is complete the the file makes itself one! which you wouldnt notice anyway.
Theres no noticeable difference at all.