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Game Performance and TrueCrypt

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  • 08-01-2011 8:45pm
    #1
    InReality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    Has anyone encrypted their PC with TrueCrypt ?

    Did you notice a slow down in game preformace ?

    Mods please move if neccessary.


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    #2
    Canis Lupus
    Registered Users Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Hmmmm. Whatya got to hide :)


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    #3
    InReality
    Registered Users Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭InReality


    de nada !

    would like to keep me stuff secure if it ever gets nicked !


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    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Why don't you just encrypt an external hard drive that is used for file storage, and only use the PC hard drive for temporary storage and program files?

    Also, "de nada" means "it's nothing"; the correct response would simply be "nada". Or "I have a massive collection of suspicious Japanese animation that I do not want my family to discover".


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    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,186 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Zillah wrote: »
    Also, "de nada" means "it's nothing"; the correct response would simply be "nada". Or "I have a massive collection of suspicious Japanese porn that I do not want my family to discover".

    FYP :D


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    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    I would partition my drive at the very least and have OS, (clean)games, (clean)vids and music on the ordinary partition and encrypt the other.


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    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    Depends completely on your CPU TBH, TrueCrypts on the fly decryption will spike CPU Usage somewhat during heavy I/O periods, so you don't have spare CPU capacity while gaming to begin with, then the additional overhead will of course impact on gaming performance.

    If you are gaming with an i7 the performance impact is probably zero, if you are gaming with a old processor then the hit could be quite signifigant I would think (depending on the encryption algorithm selected etc)

    http://www.michaelcodes.net/post/TrueCrypt-6a-System-Encryption-Benchmarks.aspx

    http://superuser.com/questions/9962/speed-of-truecrypt-whole-disk-encryption


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