how can i stop this from pinging the internet while gaming?

[DTG123]

this is causing lag spikes while Im gaming is there a setting to stop the syntaxer.exe from connecting to the internet?

[oleg-shilo]

connecting to the internet...

The syntaxer never connects to the internet.

Syntaxer is a Roslyn-based intellisense server that uses sockets to communicate with clients. Though it is strictly using loopback address (localhost) to listen to. Thus it does not connect to the internet but simply listens to the local clients trying to connect to it. If it is something that you want to prevent then simply shutdown Notepad++.

[oleg-shilo]

If you have any concerns about syntaxer you can find its code here: https://github.com/oleg-shilo/syntaxer