Game Booster Utility!?

[Benadiction]

Hey guys, I'm a massive fan of cleaning and maintaining my system, call it OCD but meh . I mainly use utilities such as CCleaner, Defraggler and Tweaknow Regcleaner, I have found all of them very useful in keeping the unwanted rubbish out. I have since stumbled across this though:

http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

I just wondered what people's views were of it or if anyone has used it before?

 

[Wozza63]

its ok, but not really needed for systems over 4GB of RAM, it basically ends any services that you dont need and are taking up memory, but it doesnt save very much

 

[Corfate]

I tried it on my old PC (had 1GB RAM, haha) didn't help too much. Noticed a tiny change in the game's smoothness, but not enough to help

 

[Benadiction]

Cheers for the feedback guys, more of a gimmick than anything then Aye, I don't think my Vortex III will need it when it finally arrives!

 

[Buzz]

Advanced system care is excellent prog (IoBit) I would never use the game booster function though, as I dont like shutting down services etc etc. Just not needed anymore really. But the cleaning and tweaks it can do is great

advanced system care Link

 

[NilSatis]

+1 for advanced system care; it is a great tool. Use it all the time.

As for game booster, the new beta works brilliantly so the reviews say; but unless you have an aging system it is not really worth it. However, it can be useful for seeing if any processes are using up more resources than they should and gives you a nice ui to look into what each of them does and the need for them running while gaming. I tried an older version and was surprised when the mouse response in games seemed better when the crappy Microsoft Intellipoint/Intellitype software was disabled whilst gaming. Not sure if anything else made a difference, but it can be useful for narrowing down troublesome processes like this. You can turn on and off what you like and as long as you stick to your own knowledge base and what it recommends then you cant go wrong. Most of Iobits stuff is really good, the smart defrag program is also pretty decent. :turned:

 

[Benadiction]

I was looking at advance system care Buss, I use the utilities mentioned above alot, would you say it's worth getting advanced system care too? or instead?

 

[Encolpius]

I use it. It's pretty good for laptops because it ensures that you are actually on max performance power settings (my current lappy, a Lenovo of some description, isn't actually on max performance when you set that power plan), kills off unused processes and services which do sap processing time a wee bit. I do notice that things are smoother and a wee bit more responsive when it's switched on, though it's no big loss to have it off.

 

[Buzz]

I was looking at advance system care Buss, I use the utilities mentioned above alot, would you say it's worth getting advanced system care too? or instead?

Personally I wouldnt use 2 many cleaners 2 much. A lot of the stuff they do clean actually helps to keep the comp running fast. Like cache files and and certain cookies etc.

I would use ASC about once a month unless I remove software or want to clean the registry. NEVER defrag an SSD. ASC has good settings to block SSD defrag, and has a pretty good cleaning system. IMO this is all thats needed. CCCleaner can also be used to remove any last files it may miss as every prog is different as to what they classify as "Junk"