Iobit Gamebooster

XiS111 · 18 Sep 2009 at 03:37

i've just been trying out red faction guerilla, the amount of mouse lag and jerky performance was so unplayable, so i just gave up for now.

I saw something i saved in my firefox bookmarks a while ago called IObit gamebooster, apparently what it does is free up background processes to improve framerates. Just wondering if anyone has used it before?

IObit Gamebooster

Undesirable · 18 Sep 2009 at 04:17

I can't see it doing much on high performance systems with plenty of RAM.. I mean, these are background tasks we're talking about, and a lot of people here have quad processors with 6gb of RAM. I used to spend hours tweaking my services to run on the bare minimum, and it rarely increased my framerate at all, even when I had a single core processor. These days I just stop the ones I don't use permanently after installing Windows, and leave everything else alone.

I know what you mean about Red Faction - Guerrilla, though. That game is a show-stopper for me when blowing up buildings. If you disable "Ambient Occlusion" in the graphics settings, it should get rid of your mouse-lag.

Sash · 18 Sep 2009 at 06:37

I tried before only got me about 200extra points in 3dmark06 so i didnt see it being worth it.

Dano · 18 Sep 2009 at 11:23

If your pc is running a game so badly that this makes a difference you need to either upgrade or stop running so much junk that all your resources are used.

Le_Petit_Lapin · 18 Sep 2009 at 11:25

Turning some of your settings down in game will have a far greater effect then this bit of software.

Caseh · 18 Sep 2009 at 11:26

I tried this software for giggles, and it reduced my FPS in WoW by 4

dr4g0nf1y · 18 Sep 2009 at 11:32

All it does is close it's selected programs with the addition to allow you to turn off other programs while you play a game. When you've finished you click on the taskbar icon and it starts them all up again.

It's okay but only saves around 100-200mb unless you had sidebar running

Tobes · 18 Sep 2009 at 11:36

Isn't there a ATI/AMD program which does this? Supposed to be quite good with AMD ATI software although it will work on other systems.

Caseh · 18 Sep 2009 at 11:40

dr4g0nf1y said:
It's okay but only saves around 100-200mb unless you had sidebar running

Sidebar *shudder*

XiS111 · 18 Sep 2009 at 16:36

i run sidebar and rocketdock on my desktop because it looks good and its fairly handy

Will be trying to play red faction again tonight with the gamebooster!

arc@css · 18 Sep 2009 at 19:04

I think this piece of software can come part of a free download from a program called 'Advanced SystemCare 3'. I found the IObit didn't really make any noticeable difference since as someone else mentioned, if you already have an adequately powerful machine then freeing up a 100megs of ram won't make worlds of difference.
I did, however, find the other free utilities more beneficial.