Game Booster -- has anyone used this program to improve performance?

[WhipperSnapper]

Has anyone used the free program Game Booster to improve their performance? Supposedly it clears out RAM and shuts down unnecessary background programs. Good idea? Bad idea?

http://majorgeeks.com/Game_Booster_d5952.html

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

I thought it was widely known during the 2000/XP early days that these programs are a sham and will actually reduce performance, or worse?

Anybody remember RAMBooster or whatever it was called? :lol:

We really need a lol icon!

 

[The Boston Dangler]

just like any program that promises to fix or improve windows, this is a great way to break your computer.

 

[Via]

I thought it was widely known during the 2000/XP early days that these programs are a sham and will actually reduce performance, or worse?

Anybody remember RAMBooster or whatever it was called? :lol:

We really need a lol icon!

Yeah I remember Rambooster. I benchmarked with it and without it, and it slowed down my PC by a considerable margin.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I thought it was widely known during the 2000/XP early days that these programs are a sham and will actually reduce performance, or worse?

Anybody remember RAMBooster or whatever it was called? :lol:

We really need a lol icon!

There was a ram program that actually worked on one version of windows (3.1?) because the default memory management was terrible. On the next version of windows, it didn't work anymore so they released it with a no op in the main function : )

 

[skulkingghost]

I am going to speak out about this program since I have actually used it. I love it.

I use gamesbooster on the one game my system has trouble with, Shattered Horizon, and it raised my fps by a significant margin (20fps-47 average) I don't know what the actual slowdown was that was causing the game to slow down, but gamesbooster definitely fixed it.

I have not tried it with any other games because everything else I have no problems running. Its a great programs and I experienced no issues running windows 7 64 and the rig in my sig.

 

[Fox5]

Generally, at best all these programs do is unload all background processes. AMD even has their own version. This won't save much cpu time, but I suppose it'll save memory on a really low mem system.

 

[crownjules]

This just scans and shuts down any non-essential processes that are running on your machine. It'll only help if you're one of those people who have two lines of system tray icons.

 

[styrafoam]

Do you have a Compaq?

If you answered yes, install Gamebooster.

 

[Borealis7]

dont know about improving performance in games, but i have a windows cache manager that works wonders for my XP. seems obvious as its called CacheManXP

 

[frozentundra123456]

I have a low end PC with an E4500 and a 9600GT and Vista 32bit. I tried this program and using the Company of Heroes benchmark, I could tell no difference at all using this program. I was sort of disappointed because it sounded like such a good idea.

 

[zerocool84]

I have a low end PC with an E4500 and a 9600GT and Vista 32bit. I tried this program and using the Company of Heroes benchmark, I could tell no difference at all using this program. I was sort of disappointed because it sounded like such a good idea.

The main factor to making this work or not would be the amount of RAM you have. I'm sure a system with a tiny amount of RAM would benefit from this but hell, RAM is cheap and makes everything faster.