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Old 11-17-07, 02:00 AM   #8
clayp
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Originally Posted by maerean_m
As a programmer, I can tell you that it's a very bad idea to have more than one real-time antivirus scanner. They will fight to be the first to read the accessed files and put locks on those files so the application may sometimes be denied access to a file (that would never otherwise happen) and crash. Basically, the game is told by the OS that the file doesn't exist.

The probability for a game to crash because of the multiple antiviruses increases with the number of files installed by the game. Crysis installs 1800 files, SH4 installs 20000 and HL2 installs 40000. The more files are accessed, the more is likely the antiviruses will step on each others toes.
I only have one running at a time
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