Use Gamebooster or similar software to boost performance

[ATAG_Doc]

I love it. People will buy anything. I am thinking about getting in on this action. There is a lot of money to be made.

[Purg]

Unless you have a very marginal PC where you're hitting swap while playing, gamebooster and their ilk are placebos.

My machine is getting close to replacement - i7-920 and GTX295 with 12GB RAM. I run 3 virtual operating systems ontop of my Windows 7 which are largely idle if I'm not focused on them. Regardless of whether I shut down those OS's or not, there's no noticeable difference in performance. Stopping a couple of services (which are likely sleeping anyway) to free up a few MB of RAM doesn't even come close to the resources required to run an XP and 2 Linux VM's as I do.

[Ataros]

Originally Posted by Purg

Unless you have a very marginal PC where you're hitting swap while playing, gamebooster and their ilk are placebos..

That's what I was thinking before starting this thread.

Anyone is free to try it or not. The key here is not freeing memory as it does not help unless you have 2GB RAM or less )) but killing processes that may access your hdd, network, etc. (like 'smart' defrags, torrents, auto-updates, auto-syncs).

Many people just do not have a clue what is running in background while they are playing. I pay a lot of attention to keeping my system clean but still not having computer background I do not know what all these processes that Gamebooster stops do and how much resources they take.

10 fps increase is nice for a placebo effect. I like it. If someone does not, it's their personal preference, I do not mind at all.

[bando]

Well, I'm using it, never heard of it before. Thanks for the link.

[dougandtoni]

I gave a friend a hand the other day setting up his computer as he was having trouble running Cliffs of Dover and other games. When i started he had 89 processes running and i have so far got him down to 42 processes with no adverse effects to his normal computing needs and is now able to play COD as he says "very well". But i gotta tell you there was some crap running on his pc

[icetbag]

I recently installed GameBooster v2.3 and it has made a noticeable difference in my FPS (for the better). Im averaging around 50-60fps on my Ati 5850 with a mix or High/Medium settings.

Oh, if any of you find you cant drag your game shortcuts into the GameBox, you have to create a desktop shortcut first, then drag that into the box.

[Vengeanze]

Gae Booster gave me one frame so I'll keep it.

Originally Posted by timej31

I love it. People will buy anything. I am thinking about getting in on this action. There is a lot of money to be made.

agree'd these programs are rubbish and nothing that you cant do just by going to control panel. Also the funny thing is running an extra program uses and takes away resources from you game.

The people who gain extra frames, uninstall game booster and refine your startup and turn off all the things that are not essential, and turn off windows swanky stuff, and you will get the better fps and have one less process jockying for CPU & RAM and going into your game.

[icetbag]

Originally Posted by BigPickle

agree'd these programs are rubbish and nothing that you cant do just by going to control panel. Also the funny thing is running an extra program uses and takes away resources from you game.

Agreed you can do it yourself assuming you know what each service does and which are safe to terminate. I've heard of people who have stopped/disabled the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service thinking it wasnt important...couldnt boot their PCs after they rebooted.

However, the benefit of using such programs is the convenience of disabling several services with one click that you may have need of when not gaming, certainly quicker than going back and forth to the control panel and starting/stopping services.

[bolox]

try here?
http://www.blackviper.com/2010/12/17...onfigurations/

look for other OS configurations if necessary- and BE CAREFUL- YOU CAN SERIOUSLY STUFF UP YOUR COMPUTER- if you don't know what you are doing