IObit Game Booster

[AVP]

Hey guys, ran across Iobit's "Game Booster" today:

Designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button, Game Booster helps achieve the performance edge previously only available to highly technical enthusiasts. It works by temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance. That means you can keep all the features of Microsoft® Windows Vista® and XP® ready for when you need them, but turn them off when you are ready to get down to serious business ? gaming. Game Booster makes it simpler to enjoy the latest games and take your experience to a new level. All systems go!

Can be found here: http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

What are you thoughts on this? Worth a try?

Here are some benchmarks I found from someone using it with WoW: http://waklongsprocket.blogspo...with-game-booster.html

Seems to be a little more involved than the run of the mill "speed up your PC!" programs. Any harm in this?

 

[Zenoth]

I've tested it in Crysis (with the Benchmark Tool), in Counter-Strike: Source's video stress test, in UT3 and in Prey, and so far I haven't seen a single extra FPS with that booster activated (and properly so). There's not a single difference whatsoever. The booster's main feature is to stop some services, but even if most of those services are active in the background they don't negatively affect the performance of the system nor any other 2D or 3D applications. And in my case my XP and Vista (dual boot) installs are fully optimized, with only 14 processes running in XP after boot and only using 122MB of RAM.

It's still under Beta testing but to be honest I don't perceive that program as a mean of suddenly increasing gaming performance. The best way to do so when you're not changing your hardware is to make sure your OS is optimized, that no unnecessary services are running, that there's no codecs conflicts, that the OS has received all official updates and packs, that all drivers are properly installed and up-to-date, that there's no spyware/malware/trojans/viruses, and finally to possibly over-clock the hardware. In other words that program tries to do what most people should do manually after installing any OS, but especially Windows ones, even if they're not gamers (just remove the over-clock part, and it applies universally).

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Maybe if you have an absolute ton of crap installed that bogs down your computer this might help, but for the most part I doubt it will make a difference for most.