Razer Game Booster application

Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/21/2012 04:53 AM | 40 comment(s) ]

Razer is now talking about a closed beta test of Razer Game Booster, an upcoming software tool to optimize user's system settings, improve game performance, and capture in-game footage. The tool is based on IObit's free Game Booster utility, you can sign up yourslef.

Razer™, the world leader in high-performance gaming hardware, today announced the beta release of Razer Game Booster, software that optimizes a user’s system settings, improving game performance and providing the ability to share favorite moments with friends. This software enhances in-game experiences that players of all skill levels—from professional to casual—will appreciate. With the click of a button, gameplay becomes faster, smoother and easier to launch. The program is the latest evolution of the CNET Editor five-star-rated IObit Game Booster software, an immensely popular precursor that has been downloaded over 100 million times.

Razer Game Booster includes the following features:

Game Mode
Focus in on your game by temporarily shutting down unnecessary functions and applications, concentrating all of your resources purely on gaming. Applications shut down prior to gaming are restored when user exits the game.

Calibrate Mode
Simplify the process of setting up your PC’s performance by conveniently providing you with the option to tweak, defrag, or update any outdated drivers.

Share Mode
A bonus feature where you can show off your skills, create tutorials, and more, with the ability to record real-time audio/video and capture screenshots.

Razer did extensive research and testing in partnership with IObit during the development of Razer Game Booster, improving and updating features to bring about the most intuitive and powerful application possible. The software conveniently stores all games under one hub, and provides a unique boosting feature that enhances the functions of a PC for maximum game performance.

“Razer Game Booster takes what Razer is all about and supercharges it,” said Robert “RazerGuy” Krakoff, president of Razer USA. “We are huge fans of IObit’s Game Booster software and we are dedicated to providing gamers with the absolute best experience possible. To that end, we are committed to everything that adds performance and fun to gaming, which includes software and the systems they run on.”

Razer Game Booster is in internal closed beta, but fans have the opportunity to be part of an exclusive team of testers.

Razer Game Booster application

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The Laughing Ma
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#4414932 Posted on: 09/21/2012 06:10 PM

Yes and no. Every little helps they say! That's why you see Guru's tweaking their installations of Windows. I don't have to any more as I use Game booster and it automatically re-enables/disables in one button press. Much easier.

I know what you are thinking. You are thinking it's a gimmick. It's not. It does most, if not all of the things I used to tweak for gaming (and you can add to it) then at the click of a button they can be turned off and then on again once you have finished.

Can you do that with an install where you have manually stopped things and can't remember what you have done? Ever had the situation where you have turned off something that is now needed by a game or program but can't figure out which one as you have tweaked to much? Or tweaked something you should not have and made things a little unstable? No problems like that with this program.

That's all I'm trying to say!

Yes the issue with that is you provide no empirical evidence to show that either your tweaking or the software doing the tweaking for you makes any difference to the games you are playing. Dunno how much of this software relies on the placebo effect and how much of any real benefit any person would actually notice, especially with a 670gtx and a 2700K at 4.8Ghz

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#4414968 Posted on: 09/21/2012 06:58 PM

All I am saying is that I don't have to do what some of you guys do manually. Does that benefit you guys doing that manually? Probably not but you still do it!

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#4415049 Posted on: 09/21/2012 09:05 PM

It looks like yet another gimmick that doesn't work.

These gimmicks often work but they don't for people who are so good at tweaking that they've already done all the crap manually by themselves.

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#4415283 Posted on: 09/22/2012 06:29 AM

Did you not read what I stated above? It's not a gimmick and it does what you guys do manually. Is that so hard to understand?

Don't be so elitest.

I think their is a need for a piece of software like this. People that are not willing to fiddle constantly and people that are not so nerdy with their computers like us and just want to PLAY GAMES! (like we should be doing instead of talking about it)

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#4415285 Posted on: 09/22/2012 06:34 AM

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#4415487 Posted on: 09/22/2012 02:37 PM

Could be good for PC noobs who have a whole heap of junk software sucking resources. But for the rest of us with a clue, waste of time.

Focus your resources on making improvements elsewhere Razer instead of wasting time on this. One place to start would be to stop synapse popping up in your face on boot-up, when it used to minimize itself.

Yea I hate it popping up on boot, I'm beta testing the app, only thing I see is a tad faster loading times thats it so far havn't tested much tho.

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#4415527 Posted on: 09/22/2012 03:26 PM

Razer spend more time on packaging the their actual products. I'm not letting this trash anywhere near my computer

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#4415540 Posted on: 09/22/2012 03:46 PM

ok lets stop speculating and get some benchmarks going

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#4415567 Posted on: 09/22/2012 04:29 PM

You all missed the point again! Jeeezzz... It's not all about fps you know! It's about shutting down services easily and having them pop back again easily after. It's about not having to mess. It's about conserving memory and not having things running in the background that could steal memory/CPU cycles or try to update itself. Programs/services causing stuttering.

Get it now? You can benchmark all you want. Frames per second will stay the same. Things however will be smoother and take up less memory etc.... as I have already stated above. How do you guys not get that yet???!

This program does what you could do manually. You bother with that don't you? Why? You say this program is trash and will make no difference so why then do you manually configure/tweak Windows if it makes no difference?

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#4415593 Posted on: 09/22/2012 05:11 PM

Could be good for PC noobs who have a whole heap of junk software sucking resources. But for the rest of us with a clue, waste of time.

Focus your resources on making improvements elsewhere Razer instead of wasting time on this. One place to start would be to stop synapse popping up in your face on boot-up, when it used to minimize itself.

Or getting the DPI scaling correct because there's some strange **** going on with synapse compared to the old drivers. Most of the mice enthusiasts with Deathadders have actually decided to switch back to the old drivers atm.

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#4415605 Posted on: 09/22/2012 05:54 PM

The Synapse 2.0 and my old Deathadder had nothing but problems before I got another mouse. It seems to be working pretty good now that i'm using a Naga Hex.

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#4415797 Posted on: 09/23/2012 12:10 AM

Your framerate stability is limited by your software and hardware

This and only this.

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#4415850 Posted on: 09/23/2012 01:59 AM

Wait... I thought it was September, not April 1st.

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#4415875 Posted on: 09/23/2012 02:40 AM

If they're making the same claim IOBit used to (don't know if they still do as I quit using their software after they were caught stealing the Malwarebyte's signature database)....then the software is nothing but a cheap gimmick. IOBit used to claim that "Game Booster" would increase gaming performance....which I personally found to be a very clear lie. I've seen absolutely no improvements from using this crap. Most systems....at least those like most on this forum are using....won't see any benefit whatsoever from using this crapware. If you have 4GB of ram or more, there's little reason to worry about memory load. If you have 8GB of ram or more....yet memory usage is an issue, you need to consider the importance of the services/apps you have running. Sure, disable your antivirus....that .1fps increase from the reduced cpu load will make a huge difference {sarcasm}... Honestly, after testing this crapware several times since it's release....I can't recommend anyone use it. In my experience, across several platforms (ranging from older Socket 370 Celerons to current Core i7's)...it has made absolutely zero positive impact on performance/stability/smoothness of games. To me, naming this crapware "Game Booster" is misleading at best and bordering on false advertisement at worst....

Here is IOBit's current claim....

Boost your PC and play games at their maximum speed

btw, I used IOBit software from the release of Advanced System Care up until they got caught stealing the Malwarebytes signature database.....aside from regular testing of "Game Booster"....

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#4415888 Posted on: 09/23/2012 03:10 AM

IMO, utilities like these are for n00bs that install software without knowing what it does , allow it to install excess stuff (toolbars and the like) and don't know how to use utilities like task manager/msconfig. As for me(or for that matter, the majority of people on this forum), no thanks..

On the positive note though, tools like these provide a one click solution- close non needed programs, switch the power plan to high performance mode(if you are on a laptop.) without you having to do everything on your own.

I used gamebooster for this reason only.

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