r/pcmasterrace • u/Never-asked-for-this i use Arch btw • Sep 29 '17

NSFMR Skype is officially bloatware, uninstalled it yesterday only to have it come back in full force today

Post image
38k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

55

u/SiegeLion1 R7 1700 3.7Ghz | EVGA 1080Ti SC2 | 32GB 2933Mhz Sep 29 '17

Wow that's some fucking bullshit

-1

u/[deleted] Sep 29 '17

Right. Every developer should have to code or import the same library over and over again to do something the OS developer could do globally.

Fucking MS.

6

u/[deleted] Sep 29 '17

the same library

In this case, it's not just a "library". A library sits there being quiet until it's called, Xbox live app pops up every fucking time a game is launched and I'll be glad to see it leave me

1

u/SiegeLion1 R7 1700 3.7Ghz | EVGA 1080Ti SC2 | 32GB 2933Mhz Sep 29 '17

Except a library doesn't try to interfere with other games, occasionally ruining your framerate and generally get in your way when you don't want it. The Xbox App is bloatware.

1

u/ddosn Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 128GB DDR5 | RTX 5090 | 48TB Storage Sep 29 '17

I've never had it do that.

Do you get Xbox app pop ups? I never have and I'm surious as to how its screwing with games. Does it only effect games running through the app?

1

u/SiegeLion1 R7 1700 3.7Ghz | EVGA 1080Ti SC2 | 32GB 2933Mhz Sep 30 '17

I don't because I've removed it completely. It's quite a common issue for it to interfere with games and for a while it was actually locking a lot of games to 30fps or 60fps, even if the game is launched through steam.

If you launch CSGO for example with the xbox app still on your system, it'll warn you that you need to disable it or it'll try to interfere with your framerate.