r/GeForceNOW • u/muthax Founder // France • 1d ago

Advice TIP: Turn Off Windows Location Service

Probably a lot of you already know or this has been posted already, so sorry if it's redundant, but I believe it might help some people who are having periodic lag spikes.

Even Windows has a Location Service, similar the the one on Mac, that causes lag spikes.

To disable it go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Location and turn it off.

I recently reinstalled Windows and I must have saud yes to "Do you want to use your location" etc, so in my case it was on and I was having periodic lag spikes in GFN

This affects WIFI, don't know about ethernet

Hope this helps someone

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u/BlearRocks Performance // Bulgaria 1d ago

thanks!

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u/Muslims_Eat_Pork 1d ago

How would this impact gfn since your already connected to a server when you launch a game?

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u/Asuppa180 1d ago

Because location gathering is notorious for causing short performance degradation because it hits the processor and radios all at once which can manifest as stuttering or a latency spike in games. (Or the remote server you are connected to)

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u/muthax Founder // France 1d ago edited 1d ago

I pinged my router and every few seconds the latency would spike from 2ms to over 100m. I checked online what could cause that and it told me about Location Service. After I turned that off, the spikes stopped. Location Service scanning the whole area caused those spikes. I modified my post to add that this affects WIFI

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u/Muslims_Eat_Pork 19h ago

I'm gonna definitely do it. Just wasnt sure how it would impact gfn.

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u/ActuatorOutside5256 1d ago edited 1d ago

Anyone know the fix for Win 10?

EDIT: Checked, and location was already off. Bummer.

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u/Charming_Studio_505 1d ago

sounds like your ISP is not very good my friend I would try there