[vaelic]

anyone use this?

http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

Key Benefits in Game Booster 3.4.0
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1-Click Boosting Game Performance Enhanced
Game Booster v3 can easily and fast close background processes and unnecessary Windows services, to speed up your game playing and avoid possible conflicts and incompatibility. With the innovative "Enhanced 3rd parties' services detection" technology, Game Booster v3 can automatically detect and close more unnecessary background services.

Pure Gaming Environment with "Game Desktop" New!
Game Booster 3 now is able to provide you a pure "gaming environment" that leaves only the gaming window on the desktop; thus you will not be disturbed by other programs during your gaming.

Tweaks System for Top PC Performance Enhanced
Game Booster v3 can tweak your PC for the ultimate system and Internet speed with a single click.

Creates Your Own Game Box Enhanced
Add and manage your games in a game box and boost the game automatically with Game Booster 3 when launching.

Diagnose Your System Weakness New!
Game Booster can analyze and generate a report which shows the system weaknesses that affect your gaming experience. You can export the report and send it to our forum so that our experts will provide you the best solutions for your top gaming performance.

Lower Process Priority to Enhance PC Performance New!
By lowering priority of other processes, Game Booster 3 allows more system resources to be used for gaming.

Installs Latest Drivers Enhanced
Add and manage your games in a small box and boost the game automatically with Game Booster v3 when launching.

Defragments Game Files Enhanced
With the improved defragment engine, Game Booster v3 can quickly defragment game directories and files, to make your games load and run faster than ever.

Intellectual Boost module Enhanced
The configurations in Game Booster 3 have been optimized and now it's more intellective. You can check the processes you think unnecessary for games and submit them, then it will give you a user recommended configuration based on the votes.

Detect Games on Steam Enhanced
Game Booster 3 is now able to detect the games on Steam. And you can simply right click the game icon to start it via Game Booster 3.

Intuitive and Vibrant Interface New!
Game Booster 3 takes on a vibrant look that greatly appeals to most gamers. The interface is also intuitive for complete computer beginners.

Safe, Secure, and Free
Game Booster 3 does not overclock your hardware. Game Booster 3 is a freeware, without any virus, adware, and spyware.

[Zane]

Seems like snake oil.

[Paddling Ghost]

It works to an extent but can also cause instability.

[vaelic]

Seems like snake oil.

it is free. hmmm

[Diablohead]

it sounds like it would help, anyone here actually tried this in the past?

[Piercedveil]

I used to use it with Minecraft on my laptop and I'd say it worked a little bit.

[Sethos]

Yeah well, shutting down background apps will certainly work for people with ancient machines that tend to run 600 different background services and BonziBUDDY. However, this is pure snake oil on pretty much every other machine.

[Blazeddc]

Their site's WOT rating.

{Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass.}

[Grayman]

never heard of this io company or their products. it may reduce some overhead but won't be doing anything you could not do yourself.

[xxczx]

It provides a very minor temporary boost but you'd gain better performance if you sort your computer yourself.

Game Booster would be only necessary on Windows XP systems running 512MB of RAM or something.

[bhlaab]

Totally. Also check out some of my favorite PC Gaming Apps such as Bonzi Buddy and FreeCa$h4Jewelry

[TheMan]

probably installs spyware

[bhlaab]

probably installs spyware

Not even that, this sounds more like the spyware that gets installed by other shitty programs.

[Nif]

That never works and usually screws up your PC. Just buy more ram.

[DiscoJer]

I tried using Gamebooster on my laptop...

Then I realized it was turning off my fan. D'oh!

[SteveWinwood]

Their site's WOT rating. {Thanks for the offer, but I'll have to pass.}

It's safe for children!

[PantherAttacks]

Seems like snake oil.

Snake Oil Enhanced

That said, there's definitely background junk on many PCs that should be turned off. Don't know that I trust this software to make the right decisions though.

[maquiladora]

Yeah well, shutting down background apps will certainly work for people with ancient machines that tend to run 600 different background services and BonziBUDDY. However, this is pure snake oil on pretty much every other machine.

LOL. Holy shit, thats a blast from the past.

[vaelic]

Totally. Also check out some of my favorite PC Gaming Apps such as Bonzi Buddy and FreeCa$h4Jewelry

lol

[Tellaerin]

I used to use it on my old machine (an ancient Athlon XP 2400+ with 1GB of RAM running WinXP), and it definitely helped when trying to run more memory-intensive stuff. Not really sure how much use it would be on a more modern PC, though.

(Please note that I didn't mess with the driver update or system tweaking options, so I can't really comment on those. I don't generally like the idea of letting random applications make changes to my PC on that level, and I'd advise against it on principle. Better safe than sorry.)

[gotee12]

I use IO Bit's uninstaller on a regular basis. It scans the hard drive and the registry after a program uninstalls to find files/registry keys that the uninstall didn't remove. That works really well.

This however sounds a little too sketchy. I'd definitely not trust an "intellective" application to know what services can safely be disabled or what other changes are safe to make as to not affect system stability.

[StuBurns]

It actually hurts my SC2 performance quite a bit.

[Shocking4U]

Totally. Also check out some of my favorite PC Gaming Apps such as Bonzi Buddy and FreeCa$h4Jewelry

haha

[MNC]

These things are never worth it. Whenever you feel your computer is JUST not up to the task, you'll try all these crazy things. Just don't; and deal with the fact your PC is not fast enough to play that certain game.

[Tellaerin]

These things are never worth it. Whenever you feel your computer is JUST not up to the task, you'll try all these crazy things. Just don't; and deal with the fact your PC is not fast enough to play that certain game.

Well, that's one way to look at things.

The alternative is to do a little research, educate yourself on what you can safely tweak, what really works and what doesn't, and then optimize the hell out of your machine. If you're using a typical install of Windows, you usually -can- squeeze more performance out of it and free up some memory with a little effort. Sometimes that can make all the difference. You'll also come away knowing more about what's running on your machine and what gets installed with various applications, and more knowledge is always a good thing.

[Y-Z]

I used this a year or so ago to play a game my laptop wouldnt run. It actually worked and is quite easy. When youre not that tech savy and have loads of standard OEM software on your computer its great.

[Sethos]

I used this a year or so ago to play a game my laptop wouldnt run. It actually worked and is quite easy. When youre not that tech savy and have loads of standard OEM software on your computer its great.

This post seems legit.

[jediyoshi]

Designed for higher FPS and less lags!

Sold.

[Jotamide]

Wow, everyone is so biased in this thread. I've used it for a little more than one year and I gotta say it works really well for low-end machines (laptop with integrated graphics for example). You will see a slight increase in fps but don't expect any miracles.

[Pyrrhus]

I used this a year or so ago to play a game my laptop wouldnt run. It actually worked and is quite easy. When youre not that tech savy and have loads of standard OEM software on your computer its great.

Because non-tech savvy people use phrases like "standard OEM software" all the time.

[Glix]

But, but, but....

THIS program runs in the background!!!! Does it shut itself down?

[Kentpaul]

I have a 6 core CPU and more than enough ram. I also don't have lots of unneeded clutter running in the background. If anything game booster 3 would be the unneeded clutter running.

[Harry_Tequila]

I don't get it... Is this thread and all of the replies in it a parody of some kind?

I'm genuinely baffled.

[Conciliator]

Apparently every user on NeoGaf is a shill for Game Booster 3.0.

Also there's a small but real chance that you are all figments of my imagination.

[Ferrio]

Wow look at all that Enhanced, I never knew you could get so much Enhanced from a single product.

[Tellaerin]

I don't get it... Is this thread and all of the replies in it a parody of some kind? I'm genuinely baffled.

What's so baffling?

It's a utility that shuts down a bunch of nonessential background processes before you start a game, freeing up memory and CPU cycles. It also lets you restart all the processes you shut down en masse when you're done, rather than killing off a bunch of non-game-critical stuff manually in Task Manager and rebooting/going into Services to restart it manually later. For some people, especially ones with older machines, that's useful. You can also tweak what it does and doesn't shut down, IIRC. There are some other options, like a defragger (never needed it - I use Auslogics), and the ability to enable or disable some system tweaks - no utility's a substitute for doing that stuff by hand, IMO, so I recommended against playing with it.

Does the thread read like a parody to you because you think it's obvious that programs like these are worthless, and only an idiot would seriously ask about them? True, it's probably not going to do much for newer machines, but for somebody with an aging PC who can't really afford to upgrade (a position I was in for awhile), it can make a difference. OP wasn't dumb for asking either, IMO. Sorry if it seemed like a joke to you.