IObit, the company that develops Advanced SystemCare 3 has came up with a new free software called Game Booster. It is designed to help optimize your PC for smoother, more responsive game play in the latest PC games with the touch of a button, Game Booster helps achieve the performance edge previously only available to highly technical enthusiasts. It works by temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance with only a single click. You can then bring back the disabled and closed program with a click as well.
Increase Game Performance with Game Booster
I am not a serious gamer and the only game that I play is Counter-Strike Source which is not really a power hungry game (meaning I don’t need a powerful computer to play it). I’ve read on some forums and website saying that Game Booster is able to give better FPS so I thought I should give it a try. Even if you’re not a gamer, you can use this tool to disable unnecessary services and running programs so you can run intensive applications.

I ran Counter-Strike Source and typed the command net_graph 3 in console. I can now see the FPS at the bottom right corner of the screen. You can see the FPS of before and after running Game Booster.

counter-strike source FPS

As you can see, there is a very small increase in FPS (the higher the better). I wouldn’t consider that as an improvement after enabling Game Booster because FPS normally fluctuates. Theoretically disabling unnecessary services and running programs should make your computer faster but it is very risky because there are tons of them and disabling the wrong one could make Windows unstable. There are other similar free tools such as SmartClose, AlacrityPC and Vista Services Optimizer that can do the same as Game Booster but the good thing about Game Booster is it is carefully designed to disable services that will NOT affect your internet connection and the stability of your computer.

You will see not much or maybe no improvement at all if you’re an experienced computer user that does regular maintenaince and avoid installing any software that you find. The computer that I use to play CSS on is fully tuned, optimized and regularly maintained, hence it is normal that I don’t see much improvements after enabling Game Booster. However if you are a basic computer user that installs whatever I post in this blog site and never does maintenaince, this tool will definitely give you a smoother game play when the unnecessary RAM eating process are terminated.

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