I hope the mods don't consider this advertising, but I was just curious if anyone has ever seen of, heard of, or actually used the product itself.. Apparently it's free and from what I gather at the click of a button it turns off some windows processes that would typically cause some lag?

Here's a link:

Game Booster

I'm not endorsing it and saying to go use it, but that link is to some sort of description. A few good friends say they keep seeing people chattering about it in WoW, I can't find too much buzz on the internet about it personally, but maybe someone here has tried it and has a decent opinion on what's up with it.

Edit: I totally boned the title of this thread.. man I gotta get some sleep.

Icysoul

Canada254 Posts

July 03 2010 01:19 GMT

ive used it before but to be honest, i don't see much of a performance increase, it just basically closes a boat load of applications that you probably won't need playing w/e you're playing.

semantics

10040 Posts

July 03 2010 01:23 GMT

IT porb just works by changing the affinity of crap to give your games highest priority in the que.

fun fact want to save cpu cycles, don't change your interpooling rate for your keyboard and mouse to 1ms ie 1000hz instead only to 500hz, as you'll take up alot of cpu cycles moving from 125hz to 1000hz you really only need 500hz.

only for weak cpus though reall.

Sadistx

Zimbabwe5568 Posts

July 03 2010 01:27 GMT

What a load of BS. Don't even think about spending money on this.

RumZ

United States956 Posts

July 03 2010 01:31 GMT

On July 03 2010 10:27 Sadistx wrote:
What a load of BS. Don't even think about spending money on this.

It's free.

baller

527 Posts

July 03 2010 01:40 GMT

On July 03 2010 10:31 Joey.rumz wrote:

Show nested quote +

It's free.

yah but if it DID cost money

don't EVEN THINK about spending that money on it

arb

Noobville17922 Posts

July 03 2010 01:43 GMT

Idk it helps some of my games a bit..

its not like the old XPSmoker backin the day though

RumZ

United States956 Posts

July 03 2010 01:46 GMT

haha I wasn't considering it, I just had a little buzz about it wondering if anyone here would actually come out, "oh yeah, worth a shot," or "waste my time less please."

semantics

10040 Posts

July 03 2010 01:48 GMT

worth a shot? worth something going wrong, i don't care for free things unless i know where they money is coming from.

Wr3k

Canada2533 Posts

July 03 2010 01:48 GMT

#10

Pretty useless imo. Unless you are running some piece of garbage reducing the amount of resources used by system processes is going to be completely unnoticeable.

I'm definitely not worried about my 4GHz i7 going slow from running too many processes lol... I suppose if you are trying to play games on a P4 or something it could really help hahaha.

JohannesH

Finland1364 Posts

July 03 2010 02:07 GMT

#11

I'd rather have a turbo button on my computer instead

Hidden_MotiveS

Canada2562 Posts

July 03 2010 02:19 GMT

#12

It purportedly smoothes out lag, and does help in some online flash games such as tank ball. If I don't use it, I often die due to lag, when I do, I die less. However lag depends greatly on other people's internet connections as well, so it's not that useful.

aznmathfreak

United States148 Posts

July 03 2010 03:15 GMT

#13

I've used the program, and along with a fresh restart, it did help the stability of my fps slightly. My laptop's pretty trashy though. It's a really simple program to use. Um.. two key features that it disables though is the wireless internet and the printer spooler, so you can't add printers. I don't know exactly which two options these two are on, but if you deselect them, it should be fine.

Count9

China10928 Posts

July 03 2010 04:29 GMT

#14

Not worth it, it will give you the illusion your game is running faster. The processes it kills don't take up that much room. Easier/better to just kill explorer after you start whatever game you're playing. (or go buy more ram, it's like $20)

RumZ

United States956 Posts

July 03 2010 05:44 GMT

#15

On July 03 2010 11:07 JohannesH wrote:
I'd rather have a turbo button on my computer instead

That is one of the best posts I've ever read on these forums.

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

July 03 2010 07:47 GMT

#16

On July 03 2010 11:07 JohannesH wrote:
I'd rather have a turbo button on my computer instead

Oh god I miss turbo buttons. Rofl. My old old old computer had a turbo button on it. Shit I don't even remember who made that thing. But I remember playing some old school kid game and asking my dad if I could push it. He told me it would blow the computer up or something and I was SO SCARED I would accidentally push it. Rofl.

jimminy_kriket

Canada5543 Posts

July 03 2010 19:04 GMT

#17

I did some quick benchmarks to find out for myself how effective it is using fears built-in benchmark tool.

First run without game booster:
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Avg FPS: 35

Second run with game booster:
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Avg FPS: 36

Note that I ran it twice for each run, and picked the best run from each. There was a slight increase overall, nothing to get excited over though. Do note that the run with gamebooster had 29% over 40 FPS compared to 24% without. The gamebooster screen is however the forth run I did, and the non gamebooster score is the very first, so the game may have been cached into ram a little bit more.

I will use it when I game from now on, just because it does seem to help just a little bit and there's no reason not to really.

Laptop specs if anyone cares:
Win 7 Pro x64
Core 2 Duo T5500 @ 1.66ghz
2gb ddr2 ram
Mobility x1600 w/ 256
100gb 7200rpm hd

Ruyguy

Canada988 Posts

March 11 2011 20:20 GMT

#18

I love this freeware and strongly suggest this to anyone with a slower computer!

FFW_Rude

France10201 Posts

December 14 2012 16:22 GMT

#19

Hi,

I would like to bump this and not make another thread about it because i just saw on TL pro that TL was advertising for it

http://www.teamliquidpro.com/news/2012/12/14/razer-launches-free-game-booster

GF got into SC2 a few weeks ago but she plays on minimal settings on a laptop that has good power, good ram but... a graphic chipset that can't be call graphic chipset (meaning if i could put a decent card in it, SC2 would run full grahic but with the chipset she have... got the game runs slow).

I don't want to try it on here computer because i don't really know what it will do (don't want to damage it. or cause any problems). Can't test it on my CPU because i got something like.... i7 with 24GBRam and 2dual 6970HD 2GB so... everything run smooth...

This spots is two years old so i think people might have tested a recent version of the tool and post feedbacks.

Hope this was worth a bump.