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Hello,

I use(d) BitDefender Free Edition for years now. I never needed nor wanted "active scanning" in background. I checked every suspicious file manually and ran a full system scan every few weeks. Had never problems with viruses or Bitdefender itself.

The last time I installed my Windows was 1.5 years ago. The BitDefender I downloaded then was good, had never problems with it. I removed the agent from the startup, cause I don't need any "update-checker" or whatsoever for this kind of program. Doing this also - manually! (before every scan)

Last week I refreshed my system and downloaded the newer Free Version of BD. Same procedure as... wait, no! There were two new (startup)files in this version. No more "bdagent", now they're called... uhm... don't remember the names anymore. Some *srv.exe files (I think one was "livesrv.exe"!? not sure).

I googled the names and found out it was BD-stuff. But I didn't wanted these things to run in the background! So I tried to remove it. Taskmanager didn't let me end the two processes. And there were no options in BD itself. Windows Startup also didn't show me a sign of this background-programs. This is REALLY annoying! Why are they forcing me to use this cr*p? (sorry for that... but I don't like "forcing applications"! it's my decision what to run on my PC!)

Anyway, I decided to leave the files for now. Hey, it's Bitdefender! Never had problems with it!

Then I installed Mass Effect, one of my favorite games! It began with the installation. Shortcuts were missed, no Startup entry. What the... (never had this problems before), anyway, I found the game on my disk and started it from there! Yes, it's working... but veeeery slow!

I searched on the internet for a solution. I had never problems with that game. Reinstalled drivers for all my stuff, uninstalled codecs, etc... I lost 3 hours!

Then I found a guy who had problems with a PowerDVD background service. And I remembered those two service-files from BD!

So I uninstalled BD and testet the game... and it works fine now!

Now I have to find an older version of BD, with the lovely "BDAgent" service. Can't wait to cancel this process! :-P

I know this is an old thread, but I just recently switched to BDIS 10 from 08 and started having the same problems. It doesn't seem to be a game mode problem as it happens whether game mode is enabled or not. But randomly throughout many different games, the sound will start echoing and get really bad. It didn't happen before the jump to 10, and when I turn off BD, it never happens. But I can't just restart the game, because it still happens. I have to shut down my entire comp and restart just to get it to stop. And even then, sometimes my computer freezes at the shutdown screen and I need to hard kill it.

But I game fairly frequently, and if this is a constant bug, I'm not too happy. So if anyone knows a fix to this, that'd be great. Or if I could just go back to 08 version, I'd probably be okay with that too.

General Specs:

Windows Vista 64

Intel i7 920 @ 2.67GHz

6 GB RAM

NVIDIA GTX 285

Come to think of it,

I only started using Bitdefender TS 2010 since December 2009. (never used BD before that) And I didn't have problems with gaming...up until today, that is. I have been reading up on the subject on the forums, but I tend to believe that this isn't a specific Game Mode problem either, but rather a general BD issue.

I used Game Mode while playing FEAR (because a really good game merits replaying IMHO), and found that the game regularly lags up to the point where it totally freezes altogether. When this happens, I am unable to open the taskmanager in Win XP with ctrl-alt-delete and I can't close the game down. So every time this happens I have to reboot the whole system, or else I am twiddling my thumbs indefinitely looking at a static game.

Now, I have tried all manner of things, like denying the game access to the internet first (firewall rules), then closing down the connection to the internet (not needed if I am playing locally, I thought), then not playing in game mode but with the normal firewall (when not connected to the internet), then on top of that adding the game to the AVC exclusion list and whatnot...

And the problem persists. Which I think is rather strange, because in the BD Game Modes "default included games" list there is a FEAR entry ! To me this sort of suggests that either Game Mode doesn't work at all, or when BD is scheduled to update, this invariably throws a spanner in the works, even if you're not connected to the internet at the moment this lagging occurs.

What am I to make of it ?

Seeing as I have a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT graphics card, the thread you posted in reply seems to confirm my suspicions. Turning real-time protection off is probably the only solution available for the time being. I have not tried this yet, but I bet this will do the trick, indeed.

Which sort of begs the question as to why on earth BD doesn't have an option to switch off all firewall options altogether with just one mouseclick like other firewalls have ?

The solution Eric provided on another thread, by turning off both AVC and IDS at the same time, is indeed the only solution. I have been playing like this consistently for quite a while now, without any problems.

The best one can do is actually:

- turn the connection to the internet off

- turn off AVC and IDS (no need to go changing to Game Mode afterwards, it seems)

when you want to play single-player games installed on your HD.

The solution Eric provided on another thread, by turning off both AVC and IDS at the same time, is indeed the only solution. I have been playing like this consistently for quite a while now, without any problems.

The best one can do is actually:

- turn the connection to the internet off

- turn off AVC and IDS (no need to go changing to Game Mode afterwards, it seems)

when you want to play single-player games installed on your HD.

Thank goodness I'm not the only one. Told ya I wasn't crazy.