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    Game Booster review

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by person1234567, Jun 19, 2009.

  1. person1234567

    person1234567 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I noticed that people were arguing back and forth in an older thread about the free program called Game Booster that boosts the performance of games.

    Here's a review of the program: http://www.gamepyre.com/reviews/games/pc/1115_2.html

    Feel free to merge this topic in the older one.

    For those too lazy to read it, the reviewer (with a Core i7 but a 9600GT) said it raised FPS by anywhere from 1-5 on games like Fallout 3 and Empire Total War. He said that the main thing it did was not raise FPS, but maintain FPS, meaning it reduces the drops in FPS.

    I have a computer that's about 10 years old lol (500 MHz Pentium 3 etc) and I'm going to test it on that when I get the time.
     
    person1234567, Jun 19, 2009
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  2. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    Sorry been discussed a couple of times.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Jun 19, 2009
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  3. DarkSilver

    DarkSilver MSI Afterburner

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    Is this software safe to be use?
     
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  4. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    It`s seems safe, just very little difference in performance.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Jun 19, 2009
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  5. DarkSilver

    DarkSilver MSI Afterburner

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    I tried it out. It just turned off some services and processors(safe).
    About 100-200MB RAM freed up.
    Can notice slightly change in the performance only.
    It does give an option to turn-off more services, I couldn't turn off a lot of stuffs because it may turn out BSOD. I experienced it before. While I playing GRID, I turn off AUDIO services. KABOOM BSOD! XD!
     
    DarkSilver, Jun 19, 2009
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  6. Thund3rball

    Thund3rball I dont know, I'm guessing

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    Want to increase performance?

    1. Buy better hardware
    2. Learn how to optimize your system
    3. Learn to tweak game settings beyond in-game menus (not always applicable).
     
    Thund3rball, Jun 19, 2009
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  7. naticus

    naticus Notebook Deity

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    @ OP

    These gameBooster apps do help. But the machines they help are very, very low-end systems, IE integrated gfx. Any computer with a good cpu and dedicated gfx card, most of the time, will not benefit from this type of software.
     
    naticus, Jun 19, 2009
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  8. DarkSilver

    DarkSilver MSI Afterburner

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    After several times of testing it.
    I found it doesn't improve much in my machine.
    It is freed up 100-200MBs RAM which is not significant because I have 4GBs of RAM.
    I think it really suit super low-end machine but not for a basic or average 1.
     
    DarkSilver, Jun 19, 2009
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  9. Deks

    Deks Notebook Prophet

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    These types of programs can be efficient in lower end systems indeed, but mid/high-range systems will see little to no benefit in it.

    Besides, if you installed Windows (for example) on your own, optimized it beforehand and set up a minimum amount of programs for your personal use while not having millions of different applications starting up with the OS, then you're fine already.

    What these programs would effectively do is shut down any potentially resource hungry applications that may reduce frame rates and free up RAM.
    In this day and age, if you have 3GB or 4GB of RAM and are not running intensive applications such as 3dsMax in the background along with your game, you're fine.
     
    Deks, Jun 21, 2009
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