Improve Gaming Performance With One Click

Hey guys,

Recently I found this handy tool to improve gaming performance by letting windows allocate more resources to the game than other non needed processes whilst gaming.

As you may know there are numerous other guides available which tell you which service(s) is ok to be disabled for a faster OS and gameing experience, I do recommend that you follow those guides to remove services which are not essential to your use such as server services when you are not running a server and al that but Im sure there are some people here who prefer not to have to completely disable a service but just disable it for gaming only.

This utility does exactly that, it lets you select multiple running services and then stops them with a click and re-starts them with another.

The name is Game Profile Utility

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Created by [URL="http://www.niris.co.uk/products/gameprofile.html"]Niris Computer Services[/URL] so credit for this app goes to them.

Download Links

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[URL="http://www.niris.co.uk/products/GameProfile.zip"]Official Site Link[/URL]

Compatability

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Site states its for Win2k/XP, however I reckon it should work on Vista the same

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Vista users run the program with WinXP SP2 compatibility option (by right clicking-->properties) thanks to Ahmed_P800 for testing

Installation

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No installation required, just download the proggy and run the .exe file thats it

This is the main window



After pressing setup you will get this window



By default a lot of services are highlighted in blue (will be stopped), I recommend you keep those highlighted and then highlight any other non-wanted service(s) if your not sure which ones to stop you can consult the following link

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(Credit for the link goes to NBR member "bootleg2go" as it was taken from his [URL="http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=5787"]guide[/URL] which I recommend you follow to disable the silly services not needed for day to day use)

Once you have highlighted those services you wish to have stopped whilst gaming click on "GO"



As you can see my system now looks like crap with themes disabled and many other services disabled which are shown in the applications dialog box.

You can now EXIT the application, it wont bring the services back or stuff up anything.

You can now play your game.

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Note that when you press GO a file called GPsetup.txt will be created, dont delete this as this is what stores which services were stopped and is needed to brin those exact ones back, however if you made a mistake and highlighted a crucial service which caused problems and dont know which service it was you can delete this file after pressing STOP and the application will revert back to default setup.

Once you have finished playing the game open the applicatoin again and click on "STOP"



This will re-start all the services which had been highlighted then stopped.



Hope you all enjoy a smoother gaming experience with this handy application


Many of you might ask if this will give you a huge boost in fps during games, short answer no unless the game is very demanding on resources or you are short on ram, it will however make the game run smoother as more resources are given to the game rather than other services, this can help with newer games as they require much more resources.

 

So basically this is really useful if you have a bunch of stuff installed / old OS, but in a fresh install, this should be useless, right?

 

No, it'd still be useful in a fresh install. It would disable system services that would be useless while gaming, but that you'd still want active when not gaming.

 

It's the same a FS Autostart, made for flight simualtor, but works for every other game!

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And I think it is easier to use

But thanks anyway!

 

Oh ok, I didn't read the whole thing (In my history class right now).

But I mean all it's doing is disabling themes and a few tiny things that take recourses whilst gaming...like the 56k modem and stuff...You can't expect a big FPS boost with this though.

 

If your short on ram then yes it can help a lot.

Its just an easy way to stop services which you like to have for a limited time perioud (whilst gaming) which can at the same time make the game run smoothly as more resources are being given to the game then other services

 

or you could just get more ram, but nice proggy ima try it on an XP not a vista. thats too risky for gaming

 

All the services that are idle anyway, meaning that they don't actually consume CPU time or anything while gaming?
Which means it's pretty damn useless.

If you are short on RAM, then this will save you a little bit of load time (the time that would have otherwise been spent pushing the same services out to the pagefile). In actual ingame performance, I don't see how it can make any difference.

Benchmarks please.

 

If all the services are idle then why do people go about disabling them and following all those guides....we then just let every service run then, also in my original post I have mentioned that it doesnt give you a fps boost but just may make your game run smoother.

 

Thanks for the share blackbird!
Personally, I don't see the point of disabling services during gaming sessions, this is especially true if you have 2 gig or more RAM. The only reason I would disable any of my services was to decrease boot time or they are nagging me, such as windows upgrade. xD temperately disabling it doesn't do any of the above....

 

Nice program

Very useful not for gaming only

But i think you should add for vista users to run the program with WinXP SP2 compatibility option (by right clicking-->properties)

 

thanks, have done and credited

 

Not bad... but like the other guy said before... fresh install + at least 2 gig of ram... and you wont need that

 

What does fresh install have anything to do with this? But I also agree about how useless this is...

 

Take it as the 2 cents for the games in 2 years which will probably not run so smoothly with your actual configuration (unless you have a monster of a laptop).

 

Hey man hes trying to help people out. Its not a bad idea for people with low amounts of ram (especially those with vista.) Before dismissing it as "useless" consider people who might find this useful. Especially those with background programs that they don't want to have to enable and disable.

Good job with this BB.

 

yeah man, i got a 1.7 P4 and 1gb of 133mz SDRAM! ughh....this will help me out ALOT.

 

The idle services still take up RAM. It could definitely make a difference in games where load time is the main problem, like Oblvion or similar.

 

Thanks for the backup there lol.


Anyway yea for those who cant find anything constructive to say then just keep your mouths shut....didnt your parents teach you that....if you dont have anything nice to say then you might as well say nothing.

Fine the thread title can be confusing as many of you might wander here thinking youl be able to run crysis on max settings with your 7900GS at max res, but thats the only thing here that deserves a negative comment.

Also, did I say it would give you a boost in fps? NO, I mentioned it could help smoothen out a game, perhaps solve stuttering problems.

Another thing I might add....a lot of people here are always going through those guides which explain which service(s) does what and disable the not needed ones, this is a lenghty process...this app makes it a bit easier.

In the end its not doing any bad at all and Im just sharing some info.

 

Thanks for the link, is it definitely confirmed as working for Vista with the SP2 compatibility option on? I'm wary of downloading it without some 3rd party verification first.

 

according to ahmed_p800 it dos work using sp2 compatability

 

Not that I have anything against that particular user but could someone else try the program with a Vista machine? It helps to have more than one person verifying whether or not the program works.

 

Tried it, it works.

i followed the guide( also i opened the program as an administrator for the setup part to work) and it did what this guide has shown. all the unwanted things were stopped.

 

Thanks, I think I'll give this a whirl as well.

 

The normal PC user have an antivirus and at least an antispyware... and most of them took a US antivirus like norton...

So with a fresh install, they wont have those thing and the virus spyware already installed will be removed and those crappy software installed by default with a preinstalled OS (HP or Dell for example)...

Yes a fresh install is needed for 85% of the PC users population!

 

To start, I know very little about computers. Anyway, I tried to set this up, but after pressing go I was unable to connect to my wireless internet. Is there a default option I can turn off to allow for a connection or is this only meant to improve offline gaming? Once I pressed stop, the wireless connection came back immediately.

Little FYI if it helps, I'm running XP on an Inspiron 6000 1.6 GHz with 1.5 GB of RAM (came with 0.5 I added 1.0)

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

Make sure the Wireless Zero Configuration service isn't highlighted.

 

wow, this is really cool, does it work totally the same with Vista?

 

For the same reason people run RAID 0, and run those stupid RAM defraggers.
Do you need to ask? If I had to guess, it'd be because people see forum posts with titles like "Improve Gaming Performance With One Click", and then they assume that the poster knows his stuff, and has actually *verified* that it makes a difference. Which is of course the case, right? You're not abusing the trust of those poor newbies, are you?

Tell me, do you know of any benchmarks showing this making a difference?

No they don't. Not if they services don't actually do anything. Then they get pushed to the pagefile when RAM is tight.

There are a few (*very* few) borderline cases where doing this might make a small difference. But 99.9% of the time when people do stuff like this, it makes zero detectable difference.

 

hMM.. I tested it out.. All it seemed to do for me is disable my internet, disable my sound card, disable most critical features a game needs, and caused UT3 to pause a few times during gameplay, which has never happened before.. Framerates were unchanged.

So, in my own personal experience of just running it 1 minute ago, all it does is make your gaming experience worse, and a hassle.

Btw, that's on Vista using XP SP2 compatability.

 

Great tool! I think this might help a little because im using an Integrated GPU... any thoughts...