Filed under: Games, Utilities, Windows, Freeware, Windows x64
Game Booster auto-tweaks Windows for better performance
by Lee Mathews Apr 7th 2009 at 3:00PM
There are plenty of hardware-free solutions for squeezing a little bit more gaming performance out of your Windows system. Heck, there are even a number of tools built right in to Windows that you can use to cut down on background performance drains before you fire up your favorite game - like services.msc, for example.
Still, it's kind of pain to go in there and selectively turn off unwanted services all the time. Game Booster makes the process totally painless. It's similar to AMD's Fusion tool: when activated, Game Booster will turn off any unnecessary Windows services, do a quick RAM sweep, and offer to close any other programs that are currently running.
Game Booster is useful in non-gaming situations as well - keep it handy to quiet background process noise whenever you're firing up any processor-hungry application.
Game Booster is a free download, and it's compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and even Windows 7 - good news for those of you who are beta testing and looking for compatible tweaking apps.
Still, it's kind of pain to go in there and selectively turn off unwanted services all the time. Game Booster makes the process totally painless. It's similar to AMD's Fusion tool: when activated, Game Booster will turn off any unnecessary Windows services, do a quick RAM sweep, and offer to close any other programs that are currently running.
Game Booster is useful in non-gaming situations as well - keep it handy to quiet background process noise whenever you're firing up any processor-hungry application.
Game Booster is a free download, and it's compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and even Windows 7 - good news for those of you who are beta testing and looking for compatible tweaking apps.
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Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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NyaR said 3:35PM on 4-07-2009
A .bat file does this, and you can edit this yourself very easy. And this post is way back from 2003: http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t113544.html
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jfjb said 3:58PM on 4-07-2009
tried the thing, didn't work as advertised, there was chain reactions based on "default" window settings, meaning the software assumed NO user defined set of services -- see http://www.blackviper.com/ for those of you developpers don't know about it.
The UI is not AI-based either, this program is not for the general (generic?) user.
My take, I may be wrong.
And yes, NyaR is right, this program doesn't bring much that can already be done.
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Justin said 4:21PM on 4-07-2009
Trying it presently with win 7. It "freed" 131mb from my 2gigs of ram. Played a round of Hawx but was unaware of any improvement.
Tried the AMD Fusion tool in the past but it never worked right on Win 7.
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sniping_dreamer said 10:39PM on 4-07-2009
Tried this out; does what it says. I guess it's pretty handy. I like how you can turn off unnecessary processes selectively.
I was thinking of creating a .bat file that kills multiple unneeded processes. Guess this works out.
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kojo87 said 12:24AM on 4-08-2009
does this work with Steam? AMD Fusion kills Steam and you can't launch any games from it. seeing as how i have one game on my PC that is no on Steam, Fusion is kinda useless. bummer since i have an AMD CPU and ATi GPU.
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macrabi said 8:39AM on 5-31-2009
Liron Macrabi
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