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GBoost, Improve PC Performance While Gaming
When you are running high-end applications like games that benefit from every bit of extra computing power and memory they can get you may want to reduce the background processes and services to a minimum so that additional resources become available.
Quite a few PC boosting applications have been released in the recent past, among them Game Booster, GMA Gaming Accelerator or IOBit Game Booster which all use the same concept that GBoost uses as well.
GBoost promises to “temporarily strip down your slowing PC to its bare essentials for gaming”. While gaming is mentioned it may also benefit other resource heavy applications. Performance increases can mostly! be seen in the following two scenarios:
- Users on low end systems can benefit from the software as it frees up ram and cpu cycles for the game or application.
- Users who run a lot of “stuff” in the background, from Instant Messengers to music players, Bittorrent clients and backup software.
Users won’t see much of a difference on PCs with enough ram and power to run the game fine.
A click on the red button in the middle of the interface runs the optimization (which is temporary). The program will perform various operations, from killing processes and services to terminating open applications. Experienced users should check the advanced mode option to see what the program closes on run. Among the programs are instant messengers, music players, inter! net browsers and download apps. It is possible to use a slider next to each listing to either add it to the list of apps that are closed on optimization or to the list of save applications. If you want to listen to music you for instance need to set the music players slider to no to block their termination.
Is it working? That depends largely on the PC, how it is used and what program the user wants to run. It is definitely worth a try. PC users can download the Windows software from the GBoost homepage.
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