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of setting up your PC’s performance by conveniently providing you with the option to tweak, defrag, or update any outdated drivers.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

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Ven0m
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#4414627 Posted on: 09/21/2012 09:18 AM

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

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#4414645 Posted on: 09/21/2012 09:50 AM

Not at all. It works great.

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#4414647 Posted on: 09/21/2012 09:53 AM

Not at all. It works great.

how much boost did you get ?

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#4414648 Posted on: 09/21/2012 09:53 AM

we have two seperate threads on this topic, but here you say its great while on the other hey are shouting "snake oil"

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#4414651 Posted on: 09/21/2012 10:01 AM

In my opinion there's only one way to make such thing work, and it includes:
1. Not downloading bloatware
2. Support from hardware providers, eg this: http://developer.download.nvidia.com/assets/gamedev/images/gfe/GeForce%20Experience%20For%20Devzone.pdf

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#4414653 Posted on: 09/21/2012 10:08 AM

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#4414667 Posted on: 09/21/2012 10:26 AM

so your saying geforce expirience would be a more reliable software ?
does that one give any boost ?

It doesn't give any boost by itself. Your framerate stability is limited by your software and hardware. If you chose your hardware carefully, have well-maintained system, and you'll set all the settings, there's really nothing such software can do for you (except for some really deep in-game integration).

The point of it is that many people don't change settings or change them carelessly. Frequently, if you spend some time, you can get really great visuals at good framerate. For example antialiasing - MSAA will kill your framerate, but FXAA will probably offer better looks than some extreme shadow settings, at lower cost.

If you:
1. Don't know how to set up the game / don't care / don't have time for that.
2. Have hardware supported by such application
3. Have software supported by such application
It may actually set the graphics options so you get close to the best possible looks vs speed ratio. These guys will spend some time on tweaking the settings so player's don't have to. And I like this idea, even though I'll probably set everything by myself.

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#4414673 Posted on: 09/21/2012 10:34 AM

i dont have junk software on my pc, only games and essential programs for basic use..
the rest i do on my laptop

but i also hate spending time in settings when i set off to play
so for a person like me, would it really increase anything ? i guess i can try it, but geforce or razers ?

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#4414678 Posted on: 09/21/2012 10:43 AM

Only way to confirm if this works or not is for someone to test it. Simply run a demanding game with vsync disabled. Try the game with & without the program and see if there is any FPS boost.

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#4414693 Posted on: 09/21/2012 11:04 AM

My HTPC partition is the clean streamlined one.

My gaming one is the partition that gets used for day to day use, so has over 100 games installed, a fair amount of other software as well as multiple browsers, so software like this is actually very useful for me.

This will do nothing you cant do manually, but its quicker and easier to have this do it for you.

I also like that its done on a non permanent basis and only when you run a game, to me this is a good thing as tweaking it yourself runs the risk of running into issues at a later date as drivers and patches are always tested on a fresh stock version of Windows.

Plus its free, so there is no harm in trying.

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#4414698 Posted on: 09/21/2012 11:12 AM

well it has got fancy animations and bright colours, so it must work......

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#4414701 Posted on: 09/21/2012 11:20 AM

Nice one, Li4m79.

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#4414882 Posted on: 09/21/2012 04:14 PM

It works fine if you don't want to faf around with turning off services, processes, updaters, etc... I used to. I don't now. I can leave things alone, click one button and all non essential things are stopped. I play then they come back on at the press of a button.

See why it is handy? No more messing around and potentially making things not work even if you do know what your doing.

That's why it works and is not snake oil. It does not increase performance of CPU and GPU. Of course not. But it does make your system more responsive during gaming and free up more RAM.

Also when the program is resident in memory it only takes up around 400k while freeing up MUCH more than that. So it's not bloatware either.

Btw I am talking about Gamebooster but this software is the same.

You read so many times in this forum how someone potentially has a problem with their system, driver etc. I bet 9 times out of 10 it's down to user error, not drivers. Too much overclock, turned things off they should have left alone as they fiddled to much.

I'm done with all that. Just play a game. That's why we got gaming PC's!

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#4414914 Posted on: 09/21/2012 05:37 PM

Looking at your Rig Shadow, do you REALLY need a program like this?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

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#4414919 Posted on: 09/21/2012 05:49 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.

Gamebooster even 'detects' when a Steam game is run and automatically changes to 'game mode' without even pressing the button. Even easier!

That's all I'm trying to say!

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