I hate Origin so much.

[Rennn]

Those of you who have followed my woeful tales of poor pc performance, unbearable stutter, and ActiveX corruption know that my PC has had problems. Over the past months I've posted many threads asking for help, wondering why my framerate suddenly dropped to 4, why I go from 80fps to 1fps in an instant, and why files on my PC keep getting corrupted. I went as far as buying a 16GB flash drive to back up all my mods. Today my drivers kept failing, my games ran at 60fps but stuttered down to like 1 or 2 fps constantly, and my PC froze. Mysterious pop-ups kept showing up after each crash and then they'd go away too fast for me to see what they were. I ran Malwarebytes, Advanced Systemcare, Norton scans, etc, but they found nothing aside from corrupt files. I even entered several command lines that were supposed to fix a few of the problems, all to no avail.

 

A while ago I bought BF3, which first forced me to deal with Origin. I like the game, and I bought it for $60. For that much I could have upgraded to 8GB of elite RAM. However, Origin is a pathetic piece of garbage and I don't think I can keep BF3 installed if it means dealing with Origin. The moment I played BF3 for the first time, everything was great. Five minutes later my game was a stuttery mess that couldn't be played. I found and fixed 27 corrupt ActiveX errors. I tried again. Within moments another 5 corrupt ActiveX files accumulated. Later, Punkbuster kept kicking me from matches. I have no idea why, because I don't hack or cheat, and there are plenty of cheaters that don't get kicked. Technically that's not Origin's fault, but whatever. It was pretty clear how that was going.

 

I was playing Arx Fatalis when the Origin window started flickering in the lower corner of my screen. An instant later my game crashed. Suspiscion began to grow, as this was the first time I'd seen the source of the mysterious pop-ups that crashed my games. I ran Tribes: Ascend, and saw for an second that Origin launched itself. Why the **** would Origin launch itself when I play Tribes?? That's not even an Origin game! Needless to say, my drivers failed and I black-screened for a couple minutes. Hours later, my PC suddenly switched its theme to Windows 7 Basic. Wtf? I tried to reassign my theme, but it partially froze. Frustrated, I opened the task manager and started to search for anything running that could be affecting the theme. I happened to end Origin, and instantly my PC unfroze and my theme returned to normal.

 

Origin keeps sticking ads in my games now. I think it's achieved sentience, because it's getting more bold. It literally closes the game and sticks the ad in my face, even if it's not an Origin game. That's not advertising, that should be illegal. Nothing I clicked in the user agreement said that Origin could close my games on a whim for advertising purposes. "Oh, I can get $5 off on Naruto Ultimate Pony Bloodbath." Why do I give a ****?? I'm never going to get another game from Origin, even if they pay me to play it.

 

Before I installed Origin my boot time was about 25 seconds. Now it's over 60. That's still okay, but Origin more than doubled it.

 

I've kept Origin off tonight so far, and so far there are no more corrupt files, no crashes, no driver failures, etc. OMG, I can actually play Skyrim for more than 10 minutes without lag spikes! I'm uninstalling Origin. That pos is not touching my PC again, and I don't care about losing BF3 if it'll get rid of this virus masquerading as a legitimate program.

 

Edit.

Oh God. I just checked my current processes. Origin showed up for an instant and then vanished. How can it do this? Please tell me it was actually still off but it just took a while to look like it's off? Equally importantly, why is it not crashing me now if it still keeps turning itself on? Is it just waiting, hoping I don't notice it? This is leaving my PC now. Purge the infection with fire. With FIRE!

Edited July 1, 2012 by Rennn

[Vagrant0]

I voiced my feelings on Origin when it first appeared.

 

I will however close this thread since I see this potentially turning ugly and isn't exactly the right place for it.

 

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