Game Booster – Increase Your FPS
5Netbooks aren’t built for gaming. When gaming on a netbook, there is a lot to be desired. Sometimes changing all the settings to low just won’t cut it, and you will end up with a game that doesn’t look great, and has low FPS.
Game Booster optimizes your gaming experience by disabling any programs that are not vital to running your game and computer correctly, such as Print Spooler, Windows Search, Windows Time, etc.
Game Booster works by temporarily disabling unnecessary programs and processes, defragmenting gaming directories, and relocating free CPU and RAM to the game.
When a directory is fragmented, the parts of one program, object, etc. lie in different places in the Hard Drive Disk. This is quite inefficient. Defragmenting the Hard Drive places all the files and data of the programs in one place, allowing for faster load and runtimes.
Game Booster also cleans your RAM, freeing up more to be used. It also increases your processor’s performance by allocating more processor space to the game (not overclocking, so you don’t need to worry about those dangers).
Game Booster’s interface is incredibly easy to use, with just one button to switch to gaming mode, and a maximum of 5 clicks to defragment a gaming directory.
I have a subpar desktop, with a 2.1GHz Dual Core, 3 GB of RAM, and a NVIDIA 6150e (integrated chip). It runs StarCraft 2 at around 4-5 FPS on all low settings with FRAPS, in graphics intensive situations. Usually it is around 10-15. Game Booster did raise my FPS by 1 or 2, but I already had the maximum allowed CPU and RAM on the game, with around 40% free on each. However, the program did free up 266MB of RAM, which is a considerable amount in Netbook terms, and could ultimately mean the difference between playability, and crashes.
Do take note that when in Gaming mode, doing anything other than the game will be quite a bit slower, Opera and Chrome will actually take a little bit to load pages instead of it seeming instant, and browsing files will be slower than normal.
You can get Game Booster here.
Oh you got the new game eh? I want to get Dawn of War II.
That software is by Iobit right? Have you heard about the incident between Iobit and Malwarebytes’ before? They say Iobit stole some databases from Malwarebytes’ and used it on their AV program. I dunno, a fight happened and everything was settled once Iobit removed anything that was from Malwarebytes’ off their AVs. But now Iobit’s AV sucks like crazy now that Malwarebytes’ database is removed. That’s what I heard.
Nice review btw… nice nice. Question, does this thing affect your computer when using your computer at regular use? (sorry for bad grammar… correct me please) ‘Cause I’m still worried if Iobit’s products might harm my system. Who knows…
Just did a bit of reading, and wow, a company stealing stuff from other companies is not cool.
Since this article was written by Hofstee, he might know the answers.
I just noticed that GameBooster defragments RAM. That’s the most useless feature I’ve ever heard of – since RAM is not a hard drive, there’s no need to defragment it – and even if it gets fragmented, RAM is fast enough so that you don’t have to worry about fragmentation.
That’s like defragmenting the Registry – sounds like a good plan, but the registry is loaded into RAM at startup, so, you’ll get, what, a few milliseconds faster boot?
Iobit had a “send virus database sample” on their site. Anyone could send virus database samples or what ever on that page, and Iobit would send it. Iobit had no idea that a few of the databases that people send into their inbox was actually from Malwarebytes.
That’s what Iobit said… the truth is, I have no idea who is right or wrong during the argument. Just search through d.Tech’s posts… he wrote about it once.
*,and Iobit would add it to their AV… I think.