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IreneSwift
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago

Kaspersky Problems

Does anyone else here have Kaspersky anti-virus? If you do, have you had lagging and freezing in your game ever since the update a few months ago? Ever since that update, my games have been lagging and freezing, both on my laptop and my desktop PC, and by about the middle of the second sim week, they become totally unplayable. At first I thought it was issues with the custom world I've been working on in CAW, but I tried starting games in other worlds, and the same thing happens. Pausing Kaspersky doesn't work, so I've started exiting it entirely before I open my game.

I don't know if it's actually going to help, because I've only been working on my CAW project and running test games. It didn't help the test games to play more smoothly, so I thought Kaspersky's behind-the scenes activities might have corrupted something, and have started my world over with a new game folder. Once I finish, then I'll run another test game, and find out whether it will run better. If it still doesn't, then I don't know what to do.

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  • I do have Kaspersky Anti-Virus. I haven't had any issues in the game with lag or freezing. I don't play for long sessions but I have quit using CAW because EIG crashes constantly.
  • I've been having that issue too, except it only crashes if I use a game folder with store content. If I use one without store content, it works fine. I'm seriously considering uninstalling Kaspersky, but I don't really want to, as I am a bookworm and do most of my reading with the Kindle app on my computer. If I disconnect it from the internet, I wouldn't be able to download my books. But if I have to, I have to.
  • I do have a separate folder for CAW with a small amount of store content in it. I suppose that could be causing my issues as well, but if I can't use the store content in my worlds then I don't care about making one. That's part of the reason I want to create my own so I can have everything I want without needing to add it with every new save.

    I hope you can figure out what's causing your problem with the game, as I haven't had any issues in the actual game at all, just with CAW. I've been using Kaspersky for two years now.

  • That's why I've made my own worlds too, so I can fit in everything I want. I've always placed store content in my worlds, and it hasn't been a problem before this, except when I exceeded the limit of how much EIG would tolerate, which was actually quite a bit. This is definitely different than it was before.

    Maybe I should mention, I'm running Windows 7 on my desktop PC. I thought at first that might have something to do with it, but I had the same issues on my Windows 10 laptop, so I guess not.
  • ZeeGee1's avatar
    ZeeGee1
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    I have Kaspersky and haven’t noticed any lag. But often I play with internet off so maybe that’s why? I’ll give it a try playing online and see how it goes.
  • I don't play online. I also don't use the launcher, or have my game tied to Origin.
  • "IreneSwift;c-17922938" wrote:
    I don't play online. I also don't use the launcher or have my game tied to Origin.


    Ditto.

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