Users may experience a situation where their Killer Control Center says “Service Not Running” instead of operating normally. Service Not RunningThere are a few situations in which this error will occur:. You are not using a Killer Networking adapter.
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KillerControlCenter.exe is known as Killer Control Center and it is developed by Rivet Networks. We have seen about 3 different instances of KillerControlCenter.exe in different location. So far we haven't seen any alert about this product. If you think there is a virus or malware with this product, please submit your feedback at the bottom.
Our software only works with our brand of networking adapters. You are attempting to use the latest version of the Killer Control Center with a Wireless-N networking adapter. The Wireless-N 1102, 1103, and 1202 are only compatible with version 1.5.1859 of the Killer Control Center. You are using an outdated version of the Killer Control Center.
Try clean-installing the latest release. Your machine or motherboard manufacturer pushed an update for the Killer Control Center through Windows Update, which did not correctly register the service, resulting in the service being removed and not replaced with an updated version. If the Killer Control Center was working normally before a reboot, this is likely the case. A clean-install will also resolve this issue. You have already updated to the newest Killer Control Center for your adapter, but the service did not register correctly.If updating the suite does not solve the issue, then you will need to investigate why the service is not starting automatically. If the service does not start automatically when the machine starts, then there is likely another service that is preventing it from starting, or the service is not set to start automaticallyYou can check to make sure that the service is set to run automatically by following these steps:.
Click Start, type services.msc and press Enter. Scroll until you find the Killer Network Service and double-click it. Make sure the “Startup Type” is set to Automatic. You can also manually start it from here by clicking the Start button, which will clear the error until you next restart your machine.Antivirus suites can also cause issues with services.
Try temporarily completely uninstalling your antivirus suite and restarting to see if that solves the problem. If the service starts without the antivirus suite installed, reinstall the suite using a freshly downloaded copy from the suite’s website. The service may still start automatically after you have reinstalled the antivirus application. If it does not, please contact us to let us know which antivirus suite is blocking our service from starting, please submit a support ticket at the link below. Also, we advise you to contact your antivirus application’s support to find out how to add our service to the list of exclusions.If our service still does not start, and you still receive the “Service Not Running” error with no antivirus installed, and while using the latest Killer Control Center, please contact us directly so that we may assist you further.
You’ve seen the ads. You’re shopping for a motherboard, and you don't care much about its Ethernet ports, so long as it has them. But you’re offered a confusing, jargon-filled menu of specialized gaming network “solutions.” These exotic hardware and software combos promise performance beyond what mundane Ethernet alone can provide, using various tricks: adding additional RJ 45 ports, combining Wi-Fi with wired throughput, and managing network traffic to give preferred processes priority bandwidth. Best part, they are cheaper than their plain-Jane Intel counterparts.Sounds perfect, right?The truth is less clear cut. The idea behind gaming oriented NICs (network interface controllers) seems great: improve performance by dedicating the wired connection to priority game traffic. But from what we've seen in our testing, it simply doesn't make the dramatic difference the advertising claims. If you're buying a premium motherboard expressly for the 'gaming' networking features, you'd be better off spending that money elsewhere.
Not so fast Testing Killer networkingPicking a motherboard with the right feature list for this test was easy. MSI’s latest X99 powerhouse, the GODLIKE Gaming motherboard, sports not one but two gigabit Ethernet ports and tri-band Wi-Fi, all tied together by the ACK software package that’s designed to combine them and manage throughput. Qualcomm 802.11 AC wireless and Atheros Killer Ethernet form the “Killer DoubleShot-X3 Pro,” as it’s called.
Long-time gamers might remember this technology from different manufacturers over the years, but the concept remains the same.Hardware-wise, there’s nothing inherently wrong here. Although the specs still favor Intel in terms of driver polish, DPC latency and extended features, those solutions are also more expensive. Intel parts use less power than competitors’ designs and offer substantial performance benefits as packet sizes drop. At 256K and smaller, which is where most network gaming takes place, Intel NICs start to outdistance Killer E2200 based solutions with throughput speeds up to 50% greater (more on this below). While you won’t increase the gigabit speed limit (most networking hardware today tops out at a gigabit), you’ll be able to reach it far more easily because of this efficiency.Nevertheless, it’s easy to make a case for Atheros on features per dollar. The Killer package may not be as polished as Intel’s networking products, but you get either Wi-Fi or an extra Ethernet port for less money. Pretty good deal, when taken as a set of separate controllers.
The interface is slick looking and easy to use, although glitches such as settings that occasionally re-enable themselves are still present.The problem comes from the extended driver package for gamers that tries to combine these separate controllers via the Killer network manager. This adds bandwidth control and network priority rules to the mix and allows simultaneous use of all network controllers to assist with routing.To simplify setup, easy-to-download updates for the manager’s internal database are available at the touch of a button.
This is meant to ensure the latest games and important software get fast-lane bandwidth privileges. Everything seems to install and work smoothly, but test results were less optimistic. LAN Speed Test results, Ethernet only on the left and DoubleShot on the right.
Not much of a difference, and it’s in Ethernet’s favor.To test Killer’s DoubleShot claims, I downloaded the latest version of the manager software and installed it onto a freshly imaged Windows 8.1 system. I tried out a bunch of high-end routers, including ASUS’s RT-3200AC, Netgear’s Nighthawk 7000 and Apple’s Airport Extreme along with a variety of network configurations, but the latency and bandwidth refused to budge from an observed, real-world 110 MB/s—aka the same reference results produced using one of the motherboard’s Ethernet controllers with just the bare network driver. Without rule adjustments, file copy operations get routed off to Wi-Fi where they languish at low speeds. This is the experience out of the box.That exception wasn’t a flattering one either. When run with the latest downloaded rules, network file copy operations are shunted to Wi-Fi in a fruitless quest to preserve network speed, even when no high-priority network tasks are in evidence.
This predictably results in slower overall operation and produces some embarrassing results, especially in general use, with no measurable advantages gained in return.Gaming results in the real world shadowed the benchmarks closely. Both Left for Dead 2 and CS:GO show no dramatic differences in server ping times or gaming experience beyond normal network variation. Where’s the performance?
What’s really going on?How is it possible that in this ideal environment, improvements were so difficult to find? The reality is that bandwidth limitations outside the computer, and thus control of the Killer Network Manager, are almost always responsible for the bottlenecks in online gaming.For example, ISP speeds are just a fraction of home network bandwidth or a server attached to a network with a single gigabit NIC (gigabit fiber is as fast as it gets for most, and your typical cable or DSL connection is far slower at 100 megabits or less). Even on a LAN, most router ports are limited to the speed of gigabit Ethernet as are the local servers' Ethernet cards themselves. You can’t pull more bandwidth than your server or network can push. Ethernet vs DoubleShot internet results. No, your ISP isn’t going to suddenly get any faster because you have a new motherboard.Since a single network process can’t be split between multiple controllers, these solutions presuppose a gamer is running multiple bandwidth-intensive processes in the background that need sharing in the first place, a habit that strategy or casual gamers may employ but almost all performance gamers avoid. Torrenting files while playing a shooter or MOBA is ill-advised if you care about performance, and it’ll probably be reflected in your own ping and your score at the end of a match.
In any case, torrent packages also offer effective bandwidth controls of their own.Another issue is the mixture of Wi-Fi and wired Ethernet. Yes, you may be able to slightly reduce the load on your wired connection by shunting secondary data over to wi-fi, if you're running background processes. But balancing between asymmetric networking interfaces is notoriously difficult, often causing more problems than it solves, and testing the Killer network manager revealed this remains the case.
While networking behemoth Cisco won’t have any sleepless nights, hapless users have already experienced plenty, with support boards packed with problems that all amounted to the same answer—turn it off. DPC Latency, the Devil’s pause buttonSo if you can’t stack multiple controllers to improve performance, what can you do? The answer is pretty mundane, and it comes down to drivers.Although they aren’t as sophisticated as Intel’s offerings, the real problem here isn’t the Atheros hardware, it’s the driver sitting on top of it. Even the mightiest 8-core Intel desktop systems have to deal with an inherent limitation of the Windows task management structure. Badly written drivers can stall an otherwise smoothly operating set of real-time tasks, which are handled by Deferred Procedure Calls (DPC) at the kernel level.
Intel Ethernet controller on the left, Doubleshot on the right. Killer drivers are a little messy with DPC control, and use up more CPU time as a result.Inefficient drivers co-opt other devices’ DPC time from the single, cooperatively multitasked queue that each CPU is permitted in Windows. This results in drop-outs in audio or video, even when plenty of CPU time and bandwidth are otherwise available.
If you’re looking to make a difference in performance with your networking card, low-DPC-latency solutions are where you’ll find it. That generally means Intel, which has the resources to sweat the details.
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Middle management downsizingIs the Killer Network Manager worth it, as a deluxe feature? Despite claims and plenty of promise, no. Besides questionable test results, the software has a long history of annoying users, and while newer packages have filed off some of the sharp edges, I still experienced settings that would not retain changes after reboot and network rules that applied arbitrarily.
While competing gaming network managers exist, such as ASUS’s GameFirst, now on its third iteration, don’t expect much better results as all of these solutions share the same external bandwidth limitations that hinder Doubleshot.Fortunately, there are alternatives. Qualcomm eventually relented and now offers a barebones version of the Atheros LAN and Wi-Fi driver set without the manager included. Take the hint. You can add my voice to the chorus that recommends using it from first install. Don’t waste your time with the Killer Network Manager or DoubleShot.
They cause more problems than they solve.