KSP drags down my Internet.

[jbdenney]

I am having a strange issue.

KSP (stock except EVE and Docking Alignment and Alarm Cock) seems to be running fine. Not having slow downs. But I have noticed that when I have KSP running my internet speeds drop to almost nothing. I normally get 40 MBS download and 10 MBS upload, When KSP is running, even when I am not focused on the KSP screen and the program stops exicuting, my Download drops to 10MBS and upload is almost non-existent.

I am running the Direct Download version so I am not hitting Steam at all.

When watching my performance in Task Manager I don't see anything hogging my resources and it does not increase mt WiFi usage at all (less than 5%).

The instant I get out of KSP my internet speed jumps right back up.

I know my system is plenty fast. I can run World of Warcraft at highest Graphics setting and it does not slow down. I have a NVIDA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics card. My CPU is Intel Core i7-8700COU @ 3.20GHz with 12 cores. The CPU takes a heavy hit when loading but once KSP is running the usage goes back down to normal. I have 16 GB ram and when KSP is running I am using about 57% of my memory. When I exit KSP my memory usage dropped to 30%. When loading my Hard drive usage jumps but drops back to normal after loading is complete.

My wife can be running World of Warcraft at the same time KSP kills my Wifi and she has no issues and shows no drop in speed so I know the issue is no with our WIFI system and is isolated to inside my machine.

Any Ideas?

Thanks

Bruce

Edited May 24, 2020 by jbdenney
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