Game Booster

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/gamebooster.html

Game Booster can help you to get better performance from your PC while playing resource intensive games. The program accomplishes this by shutting down a series of Windows background services that are normally not needed during game play, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance. Once you are finished playing your game, simply click a button to restart all the services and regain full functionality for regular PC usage.

I haven't used it myself but it looks promising. Has anyone ever used it?

[Aegis]

and intensifying processor performance

I wonder what this is, and how it is accomplished?

[Calum]

From "Please read this first":

If you're reviewing a product, you must have personal experience with that product.

Not to rain on your parade, but ... rules are rules and you were the last person to edit that sticky.
Generally programs like this are worse than useless, if anyone has any evidence to the contrary I'd be interested to see it.

[evilfantasy]

It does as good as any free product like this is expected to. It shuts off all unnecessary components with a click and then you can restart them just as easy.

It's small, handy, and seems safe plus it's free.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

From "Please read this first":
Not to rain on your parade, but ... rules are rules and you were the last person to edit that sticky.
Generally programs like this are worse than useless, if anyone has any evidence to the contrary I'd be interested to see it.

Tell that to Broni.

I tried the thing....Didn't notice any real difference.

[Calum]

Tell that to Broni.

As far as I know it's only recently been re-emphasized ... the thread title just caught my eye in this case.

[srtony1946]

I am using It currently, I really like it.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

So it works? Any noticeable performance differences?

[srtony1946]

Game lag has improved, And I get  less of it, .  Also I like the fact that it optimizes your ram. All the gamers that I talk to say you have to eliminate as many background processes as possible. And Game booster doe's this for you. I love it and will use it from here on out unless something better comes around, Thanks Carbon.

[Helpmeh]

Game lag has improved, And I get  less of it, .  Also I like the fact that it optimizes your ram. All the gamers that I talk to say you have to eliminate as many background processes as possible. And Game booster doe's this for you. I love it and will use it from here on out unless something better comes around, Thanks Carbon.

What sort of process do I NOT need when running games...65 running right now because I'm uninstalling Microsoft Visual C++...

[evilfantasy]

Good resourcees for Services information. Pacmans Portal

• Windows 2000: BlackViper & TechSpot
  
• Windows XP: BlackViper, TechSpot & The Elder Geek
  
• Windows Vista: BlackViper

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Or www.BlackViper.com: Windows XP x86 (32-bit) Service Pack 3 Service Configurations

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Thanks Srtony1946, Evilfantasy.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I've been using it the past few days. Pretty neat, indeed worth a shot.

[quaxo]

Tried it out on my desktop (see specs for it). No difference in any demanding games I tried (Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Dead Space, Crysis). Seem to play as usual. However, I found if you repeatedly switch gaming mode on and off a few times, RAM usage continues to go down each time.

Gaming mode off and on repeatedly with standard options:

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On: 37% to 36%
Off: 36% to 37%
On: 37% to 35%
Off: 35% to 34%
On: 34% to 33%
Off: Stayed at 33%
On: 33% to 32%
Off: Stayed at 32%
On: 32% to 28%
Off: Stayed at 28%
On: 28% to 26%
Off: 26% to 27%
On: 27% to 26%

The last two were repeated from there on. Couldn't get it below 26% usage through its standard options. I then had it disable everything except things necessary for my games (Creative control panel, Logitech G-series manager (key manager for Logitech G13), LCD monitor (screen manager for Logitech G13), SetPoint (button and DPI manager for Logitech G5 mouse), Zboard control panel) and my anti-virus. Couldn't get it any lower than 25% though. Like I said, still no difference in games though.

[Aegis]

and intensifying processor performance

It's a good sales pitch until that phrase.  Then they lose me.