Game Booster is another freeware from IObit, the people who brought to you the Advanced SystemCare we reviewed before. As we had mentioned before, Game Booster can be integrated seamlessly into Advanced SystemCare, giving you the ultimate set of tools to uleash you PC gaming capabilities to its fullest.
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Game Booster is a system utilities for Windows. It does just what its name bears; boosting your PC gaming power. This is done by disabling certain numbers of Windows services that are pretty unecessary when the PC is in gaming mode. Disabling those services gives the CPU more processing resources that is valuable to games and 3D applications. Extra processing resources is also achieved by temporarily closing background-running applications to give more room for resource-hungry applications. Game Booster can do all this without a fuss.
Game Booster is really fast in closing and restarting those services and background programs. By default, Game Booster already have the list of Windows services to be disabled. The good news is user is free to modify this list, either to remove or add entries to the existing one; pretty convenient especially for Windows power user who really know what services that are really safe to be disabled while on games. Furthermore, we did a head-to-head comparison with Windows' batch processing files to get the real feeling of how fast Game Booster work. First we create a *.bat file containing commands to stop the same services as in Game Booster default list and we named it "stop.bat". Double-clicking this file stops all the services but on our first try, there was a catch where it requires the confirmation to stop services that are dependent to the other. The trick to overcome this is to rearrange the command and it worked smoothly, albeit it took up to 30 seconds to execute all stopping commands. Then we changed the commands in the same batch file to service starting commands and saved a copy as "start.bat". Again, it took around another 30 seconds to execute everything. Game Booster, on the other hand does the same almost instantly to the extent that we were unable to see the progress of stopping/restarting the services. Not only that, Game Booster have very small memory footprint, only utilizing roughly 700kb when minimized to system tray.
Currently Game Booster is in version 1.21. Version 1.21 is more of a bugfix version because the version 1.2 has been detected by many antivirus software to be containing the pattern of certain computer virus, though nothing actually happened if the user choose to ignore it. Since version 1.2, one useful feature, Game Defrag has been added. This feature allows the user to specifically defragment the files of installed applications, especially games. It also allows the user to scan individual folders for defragmentation and then defragmenting the defragmented files. This is also done quite fast and saved a lot of time because user may not always have to resort to full hard drive defragmentation. However please take note that this is not to replace the overall system defragmentation and user still need to defragment their system regularly from time. For automated/scheduled HDD defragmenter, we recommend another IObit freeware, Smart Defrag (we will review Smart Defrag in the near future. Stay tuned with us).
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http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4842-game-booster.html
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