Highly recommend Razors Gamebooster. Used it for years, basically, when you install it it looks at whats running on your system. When you start a game it turns off anything that doesnt need to be running. When you exit your game it restores everything. It even creates a new power plan designed for gaming.
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Nha. This utility is not good.
This is nothing new actually. People did utilities like that back in XP days, and some people where manually doing it back even before. The idea is too disable about every Windows features to get any little bit of CPU and memory you could get to play the games at maximum performance. It won't take a game going at 15fps and run it at 30fps. It's more like 15fps to , PERHAPS, MAYBE, 17fps. And that was back in the days where people had very low amount of RAM, like 512MB, and single core CPU's. And Windows XP very poor (in today standard) memory management system, and Windows XP and before process schedulers was not as well designed as it is now.
PLUS, the software wants to defrag your games.... on an SSD.. defrag on and SSD.
Not only that is not great thing to do for an SSD, but data on the SSD is PURPOSELY fragmented to evenly use the chips for lasting a lot longer. SSD's can afford this, because when you access data, it will get all the blocks simultaneously. On an HDD, you have 1 head, had to start collecting every single peace of data one after another. That took time as its all mechanical, and start reassembling it and give it to the system. SSD it will act like the data was not.
So no, I don't agree with this software. If you were running on XP, sure... but on a modern system, let alone powerful like the Surface Pro 2, I doubt it makes any difference. On my desktop, using Fraps to measure the fps, I am not seeing a single fps increase. Just heavy disk usage when I close my game as it starts everything back, making me wait (despite on an SSD) before the system returns to be super responsive as it was, and having Windows pop-up alerts that Windows Update was disabled.
My desktop is a Core i7 930 2.8GHz, 6GB of RAM (triple channel), Windows 8.1 Update 1 (and I recall testing this program in another forum, back in Windows 7 days... same results), GeForce GTX 260, 256GB SSD (Windows, programs and games on it), and 1TB HDD (data).
In Razor defense, the software does do other things which might be interesting, depending on you, but the whole "Game Boost" on a modern computer using an SSD, makes no sense.
