IObit Game Booster mini-review

FlyingPenguin · 12-22-2010, 09:38 AM

Handy free app that kills unnecessary services and background apps while you're gaming. Those of you with borderline performance systems might find it useful: http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

One of the guys I play Black Ops with regularly has a moderate gaming rig that's prone to laggy framerates, but he says that he's improved his performance using this app.

Even though I have a very beefy rig, I'm using it to kill a lot of background apps and services. Since my gaming rig is also my work rig, there's a LOT of things running in the background all the time (fax, Google sync for Outlook, iTunes crap, etc). I find it handy because Google Sync sometimes pulls the focus back to the desktop when I'm playing a game.

It has a list of Windows services it knows it can disable safely while gaming:

You can also specify additional non-Windows services to disable:

You can also specify background apps to disable:

It also gives you the option to disable all Windows CPU power savings features while in Game Mode so that the CPU is running at 100% all the time:

It also wants to do some other things that I don't trust it for or care about: It wants to "tweak" Windows for me, but without knowing exactly what it's going to do, I'm not interested. It wants to defrag my games, which I don't know exactly what that means since Windows defrags the drive, and in the case of Steam the Steam client defrags local game files, so I pass on that. It also checks to see if your drivers are up to date.

Once configured, you can just right click on the taskbar icon to enable or disable Game Mode, or open the app and use the big "Click to Boost" button:

normalicy · 12-22-2010, 10:52 AM

Nice! This is kind of one of those things where you wonder why it hasn't been out for 10 years already. Free to boot.

12-22-2010, 09:38 AM	#1
FlyingPenguin The Old Fart Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Lady Lake, Florida Posts: 23,736	IObit Game Booster mini-review Handy free app that kills unnecessary services and background apps while you're gaming. Those of you with borderline performance systems might find it useful: http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html One of the guys I play Black Ops with regularly has a moderate gaming rig that's prone to laggy framerates, but he says that he's improved his performance using this app. Even though I have a very beefy rig, I'm using it to kill a lot of background apps and services. Since my gaming rig is also my work rig, there's a LOT of things running in the background all the time (fax, Google sync for Outlook, iTunes crap, etc). I find it handy because Google Sync sometimes pulls the focus back to the desktop when I'm playing a game. It has a list of Windows services it knows it can disable safely while gaming: You can also specify additional non-Windows services to disable: You can also specify background apps to disable: It also gives you the option to disable all Windows CPU power savings features while in Game Mode so that the CPU is running at 100% all the time: It also wants to do some other things that I don't trust it for or care about: It wants to "tweak" Windows for me, but without knowing exactly what it's going to do, I'm not interested. It wants to defrag my games, which I don't know exactly what that means since Windows defrags the drive, and in the case of Steam the Steam client defrags local game files, so I pass on that. It also checks to see if your drivers are up to date. Once configured, you can just right click on the taskbar icon to enable or disable Game Mode, or open the app and use the big "Click to Boost" button: __________________

12-22-2010, 10:52 AM	#2
normalicy Anything but normal Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: St. Louis, MO USA Posts: 8,542	Nice! This is kind of one of those things where you wonder why it hasn't been out for 10 years already. Free to boot. __________________ Heatware What is normal anyway?