Stutter with Windows Defender

[conceit]

When playing ED, after a while Windows Defender on Windows 10 starts to munch away about 25% of my CPU performance. I only observed this when running ED (with CV1, have to find out for desktop playing). This results in funny stuttering, makes one feel like on a bad, bad Onion Head trip. Basically, one can deactivate Windows Defender, which works well if you like your windows to cease defending you. You can do this in the Defender real-time protection settings (but it's reactivated upon reboot) or permanently by some more drastical measures. Just as a tip.

See also Microsoft Q&A page.

If you know a way to deal with this without disabling Defender, share your wisdom...

 

[Highhead]

running avast and avira doesn't introduce any more stutter than there already is (at least for me). Maybe try one of those?

 

[Darkfyre99]

Pretty much anything you install would be better than Windows Defender.

Except for anything made by Norton. Their stuff is crap.

 

[Codger]

Exclude the folder where ED is installed. That worked for me.