Laptops with integrated graphic accelerators like Intel’s GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) are not capable of providing enough power for state of the art computer games. They do run old school computer games well but fail when it comes to the likes of Crysis or other state of the art computer games that require high end graphic accelerators.
Many users do not know on the other hand that there are fundamental differences between different Intel GMA chipsets. While some chipsets like the GMA 950 support Windows Aero and QuartzGL and provide a solid performance in games many older chipsets do not. This can largely be attributed to the fact that many of these Intel chipsets are underclocked to 133/166 MHz instead of 400 MHz.
GMA Booster (via Shell City) takes this knowledge and provides a software interface for both Windows and Macintosh computers that boosts the chipset clock to 400 MHz without voltage changes or affecting system stability. The program has been tested to be working with the following chipsets: Intel 945GM/GME/GMS/GSE and 943/940GML/GU Express featuring GMA 950).
While a performance boost of up to 2.4 looks good on paper it can be a completely different picture in real life situations. The developers of the software program have tested the performance in 3D Mark 06. The result was an increase of 2.2x in single texturing / multi texturing performance and an 1.8x increase in Pixel Shader frames per seconds.
Values might differ depending on the Intel graphics accelerator that has been build into the laptop but it is usually safe to say that a performance increase is visible and likely.
The only nuisance is that the developers let the software expire frequently. The only option in this case is to download the latest version from the developer’s homepage again.
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Sounds interesting. Went to the website and was about to make a donation so that I don’t have to put up with the weekly downloads to re-install. But the donation options does not include safe credit card or Paypal. Options like wire transfer, I consider dangerous. Especially when it is dealing with a Russian. Sorry, good software, but can’t pay for it safely ?
Someone really needs to code non crippleware version of this. I’d like to support the developing of this thing but I still dont like the way they are basically forcing you to pay for it.
I’ll give it a try! Thank you
Be careful… first post here:
http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?pid=543067
says “This thing fried my laptop. It froze around 10 pm last night so I forced a reboot… Now the screen won’t come on.”
and the threads (for the EEE at least) indicate not very much improvement – 2-4 FPS.
I’ve not tried it – not going to after reading that.
Looks like a good tool! I will check it!
Hmmmm that’s cool.
thanks for information this use