Razer Game Booster...WTF

blesner · **Razer Game Booster...WTF -** 09-20-2012, 19:34 | posts: 2,418 | Location: SA

Sign up for the Beta http://www.razerzone.com/gamebooster#features

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Features
Game Mode

This feature focuses in on your game by temporarily shutting down unnecessary functions and applications, putting all your resources purely for gaming, allowing you to zone in on your game the way it’s supposed to be played without wasting time on settings or configurations.

Pick your game, click on the launch button and let us do the rest to reduce stress on your computer and improve frames per second.
Find out more
Calibrate Mode

Simplify the process of setting up your PC’s performance by conveniently providing you with the option to Tweak, Defrag, or update any outdated drivers.

Don’t know where to start to optimize your computer and gaming settings? Remove all the confusion with the tweak tool, which will automatically analyze your PC and enhance all configurations for you.

If you want to decrease the load time of your games, try using the defrag tool. Defrag will organize your game file folders and keep it organized to run more efficiently.

The driver tool will keep your PC up-to-date. Click on “Drivers”, for a quick scan of your computer components and see what’s outdated and needs to be upgraded.
Find out more
Share Mode

Have you ever wanted to record video from your favorite game? Enjoy Share mode, a bonus feature where you can show off your skills, create tutorials, and more with the ability to record real-time audio/video and capture screenshots. Create Machinima and join the You Tube revolution! Set up the keys the way you want to benchmark your frames per second, record high-quality gameplay footage, and capture in-game screenshots. Now you can share your favorite gaming moments and scenes with all your buddies.
Find out more

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgUeV...layer_embedded

PhazeDelta1 · 09-20-2012, 19:38 | posts: 9,527 | Location: 90° N

Snake oil

BetA · 09-20-2012, 19:45 | posts: 3,397 | Location: somewhere behind the Milky Way

ahh, cmon...dont make useless comments..

anyway..Where a Beta is, The BetA isnt far away..haha..Thats me

So i signed up...Lets see what the tool can do besides disabling windows services and adding tweaks i allready know or did..anyway, tehre are some nice features..Also another ingame recorder..haha, well Competition is Good i shall say..

I just wanna test it for the heck of it..And because im BetA..

i gotta say they use a little bit diff approach to that sys tuning then the tools before..so it might be different, butr dont expect great improvement..
On old machines that is a diff story, there actully it can help pretty well..

-BetA-

WhiteLightning · 09-20-2012, 19:47 | posts: 20,604 | Location: Netherlands

hmmm win8 not supported yet

XBEAST · *Last edited by XBEAST; 09-20-2012 at 20:08.*

It's just IObit GameBooster with Razer logo and theme. You can download IOBit GameBooster 3.5 Beta or 3.4 Stable from here. It's free. No registration required.

Click to show spoiler

eclap · 09-20-2012, 20:04 | posts: 18,972 | Location: Hampshire UK

had the email from Razer today. deleted it straight away after reading the subject.

blesner · 09-20-2012, 20:07 | posts: 2,418 | Location: SA

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Originally Posted by XBEAST

It's just IObit GameBooster with Razer logo and theme. You can download IOBit GameBooster 3.5 Beta or 3.4 Stable from here. It's free. No registration required.

Click to show spoiler

And does it actually work X-Beast?

Redemption80 · 09-20-2012, 20:15 | posts: 13,534 | Location: Glasgow

Tried this out a few days ago and it works a treat, well the IObit one which is very similar/identical.

It's not a Snake Oil piece of software unless you believe having lots of other software running while gaming won't make a difference to performance.

I find it very handy, and sure you could do it all manually, but why waste extra effort when a free application can do it for you when you start the game, then restore everything back to the way it was when you close the game.

XBEAST · 09-20-2012, 20:18 | posts: 1,452 | Location: Unknown

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Originally Posted by blesner

And does it actually work X-Beast?

Not that I noticed. Tweaks also don't look effective.

Looking at the way these programs work, it's possible that they might improve performance on old/slow systems, where every megabyte counts.

-Tj- · 09-21-2012, 01:31 | posts: 2,659 | Location: Downtown ✈

^
DId you select expert mode?

It has few registry tweaks although not much, but it handy if you dont want to search through registry.

thatguy91 · *Last edited by thatguy91; 09-21-2012 at 03:32.*

I can see how changing the menu delay, changing the shutdown timeouts, showing hidden files and folders etc can really boost game performance

In reality, on a properly set up system it should not make a difference. Funny this is a few tweaks that may or may not actually be beneficial are not listed in these programs. Such tweaks are:

the couple of entries under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile\Tasks\G ames
NTFSmemoryusage set to 2
PSGPNumThreads for Direct3D
setting superfetch from 3 to 2. Having free memory filled at any cost is stupid, since even when using programs memory utilisation changes, so having this enabled still results in lots of memory loads and unloads. Memory cacheing is still effective, based on previous use in a particular Windows session. This for me has long proven to be much more useful.
on x64 systems, having systempages and pagedpoolsize set to 4294967295.

Note that the systempages and pagedpoolsize above isn't a defined value as say 4294967000, it just tells Windows to be more generous with its's automatic settings.

Gromuhl'Djun · 09-21-2012, 04:16 | posts: 5,208 | Location: Netherlands

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Originally Posted by PhazeDelta1

Snake oil

For most people here it probably is. My PC is pretty clean of junk, but when I was asked to "fix" a laptop last week I was shocked at the incredible mess I found: 3 antivirus programs running simultaniously (one being Norton, using at least 50% of the cpu at all times) lots of taskbars in outdated internet explorer, a lot of junk programs taking processor speed and memory, while the user wasn't even aware of these programs existence. Worse, despite the 3 antivirus scanners running all the time, I found more than 20 different troyans, a few keyloggers and bootkits!

For everyone between the more organised and the above hopeless one, this program might prove usefull.

Elder III · 09-21-2012, 04:34 | posts: 1,979 | Location: Ohio

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Originally Posted by Gromuhl'Djun

For most people here it probably is. My PC is pretty clean of junk, but when I was asked to "fix" a laptop last week I was shocked at the incredible mess I found: 3 antivirus programs running simultaniously (one being Norton, using at least 50% of the cpu at all times) lots of taskbars in outdated internet explorer, a lot of junk programs taking processor speed and memory, while the user wasn't even aware of these programs existence. Worse, despite the 3 antivirus scanners running all the time, I found more than 20 different troyans, a few keyloggers and bootkits!

For everyone between the more organised and the above hopeless one, this program might prove usefull.

Sounds like 75% of the computers that are brought to me to work on. I used to try to tell people what to do and how to do some simple common sense things to keep their computer running well, but after a couple years of 90% of them totally ignoring me I decided I'll just let them bring it back to me again...and again...and so on.

Mikedogg · 09-21-2012, 04:38 | posts: 2,872 | Location: The Freak Show - Earth.

EpicLoss · 09-21-2012, 09:22 | posts: 844 | Location: Midlands/UK

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Originally Posted by Elder III

Sounds like 75% of the computers that are brought to me to work on. I used to try to tell people what to do and how to do some simple common sense things to keep their computer running well, but after a couple years of 90% of them totally ignoring me I decided I'll just let them bring it back to me again...and again...and so on.

same here m8 but family wise it bugs the hell out of me because no matter how much i tell them and try to drill things in like always checking the custom install box when installing programs so you can uncheck the extra junk software and they dont listen and 1 even tells me i havnt fixed it right grrrr

i mean they dont even offer anything for the work just expect it done lol

iFRAC7UR3 · 09-21-2012, 09:48 | posts: 359 | Location: Norway

ill wait for this to pass beta and really see if it makes my day easier or not

Noisiv · **Memory**: 4GB OCZ 5-4-4-4-12

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Originally Posted by PhazeDelta1

Snake oil

Well for me it is, but I am still drinking it

Explanation:
Game Booster is all about not wasting CPU cycles (and disk access if you want to be anal about it)
And as you can see from my sig, I have well OC-ed, but rather old and budget dual core.

Yet I'd be hard pressed to name a single game where using GB made any difference whatsoever.
I still keep it around and fire it up now and then, just to be on the safe side

So yeah snake oil even for me with weak CPU, albeit quality-home-made snake oil

, but not for everyone.
Noobs and background crapaware users may see boost.

ricardonuno1980 · 09-21-2012, 14:33 | posts: 3,615 | Location: Carvalhos (Gaia)

Are updates of fps (frames per second) much fast response time?

ibitato · **Memory**: 4x2GB@1080 5.5.5.15 5:6

I've been using Game Booster long in a laptop of mine,
where I don't have resources to spare if I want to game .
It works,
and it's very handy for ppl that doesn't know jack ab. windows servicres,
registry tweaks or whatever AND their PCs are on the border line, in terms
of resources

We ppl keep forgetting that most of the software is targeted to the mayority of
the market, which is not a forum full of gurus.

-Tj- · *Last edited by -Tj-; 09-21-2012 at 16:38.*

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Originally Posted by thatguy91

I can see how changing the menu delay, changing the shutdown timeouts, showing hidden files and folders etc can really boost game performance

In reality, on a properly set up system it should not make a difference. Funny this is a few tweaks that may or may not actually be beneficial are not listed in these programs. Such tweaks are:
[LIST][*]the couple of entries under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile\Tasks\G ames
[*]NTFSmemoryusage set to 2
[*]PSGPNumThreads for Direct3D
...

NTFS memory usage at 2 is worse, i tested 1-2 or 0 and found out 2 slows down raw disk speed. Not much but its there..

Btw what's this PSGPNumThreads?

Edit: ah ok nvm btw this setting isn't working fully.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.85%29.aspx

I got this from process lasso

Bukkake · 09-24-2012, 03:58 | posts: 69 | Location: in the Kingdom

just stole it from iobit. not gonna bother with it

IcE · 09-24-2012, 15:54 | posts: 7,095 | Location: Toledo, Ohio

Quote:

Originally Posted by thatguy91

I can see how changing the menu delay, changing the shutdown timeouts, showing hidden files and folders etc can really boost game performance

In reality, on a properly set up system it should not make a difference. Funny this is a few tweaks that may or may not actually be beneficial are not listed in these programs. Such tweaks are:

the couple of entries under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile\Tasks\G ames
NTFSmemoryusage set to 2
PSGPNumThreads for Direct3D
setting superfetch from 3 to 2. Having free memory filled at any cost is stupid, since even when using programs memory utilisation changes, so having this enabled still results in lots of memory loads and unloads. Memory cacheing is still effective, based on previous use in a particular Windows session. This for me has long proven to be much more useful.
on x64 systems, having systempages and pagedpoolsize set to 4294967295.

Note that the systempages and pagedpoolsize above isn't a defined value as say 4294967000, it just tells Windows to be more generous with its's automatic settings.

Do you have a source for those tweaks?

fr33k · 09-24-2012, 19:17 | posts: 1,787 | Location: USA

I wouldn't call this snake oil. on really poorly configured and cheap PC's it should work great for the common user. All of those tweaks I used to do manually back in the days of slow computing.

Extraordinary · 09-24-2012, 19:28 | posts: 2,876 | Location: At my desk

Haven't we already had this for years in the form of "Fusion" ?

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloa.../overview.aspx

Solfaur · 09-24-2012, 21:07 | posts: 3,034 | Location: Romania

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Originally Posted by fr33k

I wouldn't call this snake oil. on really poorly configured and cheap PC's it should work great for the common user. All of those tweaks I used to do manually back in the days of slow computing.

Same here, this is the perfect software for PC noobs that wish to game on the PC instead of consoles.