Recently I have gotten back into gaming, which means a huge 2 hours a week about, but nevertheless, it is a good way to blow off some steam. If you want to run some very modern games though you might need to squeeze every last bit of memory and CPU power out of your laptop or desktop PC, and Gamebooster is a big help in that.
Essentially it does what you could do manually, it finds the services and apps running that you don’t really need, and switches them all off with the push of a button. It switched off Launchy for me, the Aero theme for Vista, which apparently eats away at the CPU, some tablet services I didn’t even know I had running, etc., so it does quite a good job.
I actually didn’t notice a huge increase in performance, but the difference is there. I tested on GTA 4 which runs away on my system, but not very well. On minimum spec I can play pretty well, with only a few effects added. In very intense areas I noticed some performace issues were less prominent, like less lag and jittery camera, so it definitely did help. The best thing about this app is that it is so easy to use, no need to go through 20 services and shut them down, but even better, they can be restarted with the same one click action. This is also great for trips to prolong battery life!
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Seems kinda risky without knowing what exactly it disables. Also, I already have a bunch of services disabled, and am wondering if this might inadvertently re-enable them upon the 2nd click. Their website isn’t much help, unless I just had trouble finding it. ;)
Sounds great in theory though for lower spec PCs needing a boost..
is this purely automatic, or do you have control over what it disables? can you add/remove services and apps from the list?
I probably wasn’t too clear there. The list which is generated is automatic but you then have to select what is actually disabled. You can batch select all and then remove individual items (this is the easiest I think).
I tested this app a few weeks ago and found it to be not helpful. It did not hurt either but it did not increase ingame performance, at least according to some benchmarks that I ran.
lol you’ve got twitter integrated, smart.
Anyway, every process has a checkbox, so if you know what you aren’t using already I think you can uncheck it so it won’t touch that process. Just download it and see it for yourself. Easier they just can’t make it.
Happy gaming :-P
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EDIT:
I now see that only active processes are displayed so nothing can go wrong there.
Reminds me of FSAutoStart which is a program that I used to use on my old notebook PC to get WoW to run at a good frame-rate. FSAutoStart is not updated any more and hasn’t been for a long time but it works for XP.