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

Not at all. It works great.

Not at all. It works great.

how much boost did you get ?

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

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.

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

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!

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

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!

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

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!

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.

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)

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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"....