For UK gamers, both McAfee and ESET are strong choices with minimal performance impact during gameplay. McAfee’s Game Mode suspends non-essential notifications and reduces CPU usage during gaming. ESET is known for extremely low resource usage on older PCs.
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Key Points
- McAfee Game Mode: automatically activates in full-screen apps, suppresses notifications, reduces background scan impact
- ESET Gaming Mode: similar automatic detection, very low CPU usage — strong on older hardware
- AV-TEST protection: both score 99–100% — equal malware protection
- McAfee on modern gaming PCs (2020+): negligible performance impact in game
- ESET on older hardware: slightly lighter than McAfee, good for PCs with 8GB RAM or less
- McAfee includes VPN for gaming privacy and protection on public Wi-Fi tournaments
- McAfee True Key password manager: secure gaming account password storage
- ESET is more technical/configurable; McAfee is simpler for non-technical gamers
