nuggify wrote: ↑01 Jan 2021, 20:54
I believe I am being fair. The thread is titled "It was MALWAREBYTES- Mouse issues solved!". So I asked him to confirm that through a test of reproducibility (a simple task if it indeed is a solution). He gave some vague and obtuse answer that both indicated it was not just Malwarebytes, and now additionally its C States, and AMD Cool and Quiet. Now he says he does not even want to confirm any of it, as it causes him distress. You really gotta look at this and wonder. I have read through both of his other posts on this forum and he reports very, very similar symptoms to what many more experience. I would bet if OP tried some of the stuff we have spoken about they would see results.
If the thread title has to be renamed though, that might be fair.
I did acknowledge as such;
Chief Blur Buster wrote: ↑31 Dec 2020, 00:42
Sure, placebos exist. But major reductions in gaming mental workload? Whatever you did (
including additional things you did intentionaly/unintentionally/accidentally in addition to disabling Malwarebytes) -- this smells definitely not-placebo, when someone observes a major mental workload decrease. Good for you -- something clearly major was fixed. Watching top league players become skinny because of thousands of calories burned in stressful top-end play -- any little improvement that reduces gaming fatigue is very helpful.
A common problem is discipline in paper-trailing oneself's tweaking is often a 20/20 hindsight. By the time you've solved your problem, you might not be 100% sure of all the combined software tweaks/changes that were done.
Especially if you've been tweaking for years, you can go slack on remembering/recording all the changes -- only to discover the tweak and then not know *all* the variables changed.
Also, the ability to reproduce might be lost. For example, if OP did an uninstall-reinstall of Malwarebytes can also speed things up, since a longtime install of Malwarebytes can be slower than a fresh install of Malwarebytes. Let's say, theoretically, keyboard/mouse hook part of Malwarebytes (as previously described) might have been accessing its own disk-clogged installation (lots of signatures, old backup files, old telemetry, old historical malware detection fingerprints, also highly fragmented registry, etc) -- even during a hook when monitoring for the heuristics of spyware/remote control software (like a keylogger/mouselogger or remote control software) -- creating a laggier event monitor than during a fresh install of the same protection utility (say, Malwarebytes). If this is the case, the ability to do a blind A/B test is now lost, since any full uninstall of an old install may have removed whatever problem existed. Or perhaps multiple utilities was simultaneously disabled.
It certainly seems something majorly improved since it was significant enough to reduce gaming fatigue (a real thing). Nonetheless, it'd be very useful to do a A/B test of a single thing enabled/disabled. However, sometimes that ability is lost -- like when a very old installation is uninstalled.
That said, if all software exists, it would be great to see an active enable/disable behavior so we can reconfirm -- would help many users;
