Razer Game Booster application

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of setting up your PC’s performance by conveniently providing you with the option to tweak, defrag, or update any outdated drivers.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

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macdaddy
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#4416082 Posted on: 09/23/2012 12:39 PM

Hasn't this been around for a while now game booster. http://www.iobit.com/gamebooster.html

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#4416086 Posted on: 09/23/2012 12:45 PM

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#4416128 Posted on: 09/23/2012 01:52 PM

What this program does you can manually do yourself as I have...

Tweak & edit the registry, disable startup items, disabling windows services, etc...

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#4416157 Posted on: 09/23/2012 02:55 PM

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....

GB is mostly a shortcut to turn off services and apps, and restart them with ease later.
Background services take something like 0.1% CPU time,
so if you gain even a single fps or your games become "snappier" you need to take a real deep look at your windows configuration and/or HW.

As for freeing RAM... wth this ain't not 1995. Still, it's a decent little app, what's with all the fuss?

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#4416347 Posted on: 09/23/2012 09:00 PM

men i tryed this and it maed no difference whatsoever i would give it my seel of approvel only if u are desperate for it it might make a difference if you have a really bad pc (10 years old or more) good luck men

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#4416369 Posted on: 09/23/2012 09:44 PM

GB is mostly a shortcut to turn off services and apps, and restart them with ease later.
Background services take something like 0.1% CPU time,
so if you gain even a single fps or your games become "snappier" you need to take a real deep look at your windows configuration and/or HW.

As for freeing RAM... wth this ain't not 1995. Still, it's a decent little app, what's with all the fuss?

As I said, the name is misleading at best and false advertising at worst.... If they'd remove the false claims of increasing game performance and give it an appropriate name....I might be more inclined to support this crapware. As it stands, given their naming and advertising....I can't do so in clear conscience. If people want to use it, that's their choice, but they should be made aware that the claims made by IOBit don't hold up in reality.

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#4416609 Posted on: 09/24/2012 07:33 AM

This will work better for low end pc's. I think same as gamebooster might be a bit better or a bit slower it just gives you the advantage of taking screenshots and videos in one app. pretty cool if you ask me.

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#4416651 Posted on: 09/24/2012 09:08 AM

Both AMD and Intel had their own software that did the same thing.
Buncha horse****.

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#4417231 Posted on: 09/25/2012 01:35 AM

One day Skyrim started to CTD every time I ran it. I was about to just give up on it. I had tried everything to solve the problem and I couldn't figure it out. Anyways one day I found out about Gamebooster and I had the same negative thoughts most of you have. I decided to try it since it wasn't going to hurt anything and I was desperate to get Skyrim from crashing. Well I ran the setup and let it tweak my system. I ran Skyrim for 2 hours with no crash. So I turned it off and ran Skyrim again and in less than a minute it crashed. I tested this a number of times for a few weeks and Skyrim ran crash free with it on "6 hours straight even LOL". A couple months go by and I try the test again, and it crashed.. Now 4 months later with it running, still no crashing. I'm not sure why it wont crash when I run Gamebooster but I'm glad as hell it doesn't. Maybe something running in the background was causing a memory issue while running Skyrim, I don't know. All I know is GB keeps my game from crashing.

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#4417247 Posted on: 09/25/2012 02:24 AM

One day Skyrim started to CTD every time I ran it. I was about to just give up on it. I had tried everything to solve the problem and I couldn't figure it out. Anyways one day I found out about Gamebooster and I had the same negative thoughts most of you have. I decided to try it since it wasn't going to hurt anything and I was desperate to get Skyrim from crashing. Well I ran the setup and let it tweak my system. I ran Skyrim for 2 hours with no crash. So I turned it off and ran Skyrim again and in less than a minute it crashed. I tested this a number of times for a few weeks and Skyrim ran crash free with it on "6 hours straight even LOL". A couple months go by and I try the test again, and it crashed.. Now 4 months later with it running, still no crashing. I'm not sure why it wont crash when I run Gamebooster but I'm glad as hell it doesn't. Maybe something running in the background was causing a memory issue while running Skyrim, I don't know. All I know is GB keeps my game from crashing.

You could have always narowed it down to see what service or whatever was running that caused it to crash manually.

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