Game Booster has been designed for situations where you may benefit from additional resources of your computer when gaming. If you ever played a game with lag, freezes, pauses or stuttering sound, then you may be a candidate for the software. It basically closes unnecessary processes and services to free up system memory and sometimes even processing power. Gamers with older gaming rigs benefit the most from this, as do gamers on underpowered systems like netbooks with little RAM. Gamers who have a fairly decent system may not see a difference at all though.
Game Booster 3.0′s installation should not pose troubles. Users should take note however that it will install a toolbar unless declined during installation. The developers have once again changed the interface which now displays a single button dominantly on the start screen.
A click on the button performs the optimizations automatically. Users who want more control need to click on the Configure button.
Here they can select the processes, unnecessary services, non-windows services and other items that they want disabled when a game is started on the system.
Processes include web browsers and other third party programs that are running on the Windows PC. Services are divided into unnecessary core services and third party services. Others finally offers options like clearing the computer’s RAM, killing explorer.exe, lowering the process priority of other processes or changing the power settings to high performance.
The edit button can be used to add services to the list of available services, and to edit the services and process whitelist. All edit options link to a plain text document that needs to be edited for that.
Gamebox mode offers a list of games that will automatically trigger the game boosting mode when executed. You can add new games either by dragging and dropping their shortcut into the program interface or with the help of the Add button in the program interface.
One great feature of Game Booster’s game mode is that it will restart the closed processes and services after the end of the gaming session. This is done automatically without user interaction.
The program offers additional features and services. This includes a Diagnose option which you can use to create a very detailed report about the PC, and a Tools section that offers system tweaks, defragmentation and a drivers updater.
If there is one thing to criticize it is the text-based editing of services and processes that you want to add or whitelist. The ability to optimize system resources with one click, and the automatic option to restart processes and services after the game ends should attract lots of gamers who never bothered with programs of this kind before.
While Game Booster 3.0 has been primarily designed to improve gaming performance on Windows, it can in theory be used for other resource intensive tasks as well. Just add shortcuts of resource intensive programs to the Gamebox to benefit from the same optimizations when running applications.
Game Booster is a software for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system. Interested users can download it from the official program site over at IObit.
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again useless crap. Upgrade Hardware (graphic card) or OC your CPU if games are too slow. such tools are snakeoil.
Andre,
I disagree. There is a difference in performance when I used the previous iteration of Game Booster. Furthermore, your advice doesn’t help if the computer is a laptop.
Sorry have to agree with Andre here, this one is just one of those app which gives its users a placebo effect of doing its thing, a definite snakeoil I’m afraid.
If you need Game Booster then it’s time for a new Windows 7 or 8 computer.
Sorry SE, are you working for the company? Like TRY correctly said, this is a tool which gives a placebo effect and nothing more.
hmm, i think this software cant help too much, cause some pc’s dont accept it, i mean o.s. It’s still best if you will update the version of that game software.
I don’t work for the company. However, I have seen an increase in performance when certain (unnecessary) windows services are turned off. This program achieves temporarily what Black Viper has done at his website for many years. Are you telling me that Black Viper’s recommendations are snake oil?
http://www.blackviper.com/2010/12/17/black-vipers-windows-7-service-pack-1-service-configurations/
The benefit of using this type of program vs. turning off the windows services is that the program is temporary while the manual way is somewhat permanent.
“Are you telling me that Black Viper’s recommendations are snake oil?”
Nobody said that but if GB works for you then good.I have tested many Iobit’s products and unfortunately they aren’t up to the required standard and has been quite a disappointment and Yes I mean pretty much all their products, they need to hire better coders if they are dead serious especially in case of their so called security products…
Regards
Yes, disabling services is snakeoil. Run ProcessExplorer and look what the services use. And what you can see is most use no CPU and some <0.01 of the CPU. So, stopping them makes no sense. It is a placebo effect and nothing more. The same is the "feeled" speed improvement in Windows 7 compared to Vista. It is also a placebo, both perform exactly the same way. The differences are measuring inaccuracy.
You also clean and defrag the registry and think this speeds of Windows, correct?
I can only suggest you to learn a bit more how Windows works. Here is a good book to learn how Windows really works and that such snakeoil tools only make the vendors rich and improve nothing:
http://www.amazon.de/Windows®-Internals-Fifth-PRO-Developer-Russinovich/dp/0735625301/
“The same is the “feeled” speed improvement in Windows 7 compared to Vista. It is also a placebo, both perform exactly the same way. The differences are measuring inaccuracy.”
Haha, okay, then.
Andre,
The operative word you used is “most.” So you are conceding that stopping certain services would make a difference. Your criticism also fails to take into consideration the totality of the services that are not running. For example, you fail to take into account stopping eight or nine services at once would make a difference.
-SE
Andre,
In response to your suggestion that I don’t know how Windows works, I am an MCSE. If you don’t know what that means, maybe you should look it up.
-SE
*ROFL*
I think it is better that you stop posting. You talk yourself into trouble :D
MCSE without any knowledge *ROFL*
Believe in your “Expert” knowledge, I trust the data Windows tells me when I make xperf traces to verify such statement. This is expert knowledge you never heard before ;)
Here the ultimate tip for you, configure your cores with msconfig to boost up Windows 20000% :D I hope you see the sarcasm in my last statement.
This is my last comment to you, because you miss the simplest basics.
Andre,
I can see how mature you are by the fact you didn’t address my post. In fact, your failure to address my post says it all.
-SE
*facepalm*
Sorry to say it that hard, but stop flaming, learn first how Windows works.
Make benchmarks with and without this snakeoil, compare the data and look at the result ;)
Andre,
Remove services in XP and see if there is any difference in speed. I think you will find that there is a difference.
-SE