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[Cain_ 10]

Ziggy, stop spamming :) I already have 100fps, now i will have more! Muahhahahah hahah

[ffs 10]

34 FPS (after reboot, w/o gamebooster)

35 FPS (after reboot, w/ gamebooster)

+1 FPS :eek:

[qwertz 10]

Yes, Drew. You are indeed correct about me not trying this product out, nor do I know what I am talking about. Because IF I understood what I was talking about I would clearly understand what this product does, (If I had bothered reading the 10 pages of rubbish, I would have figured out that the product shuts off unnecessary services with the simple click of a button, instead of going through each process and terminating it manually, very magical indeed!

Hey Drew - first of all, after reading my original response again, I feel that it might have been a little harsh - sorry if you have taken any offense.

My point is not that the tool is not actually shutting down services. My point is that the promises it makes on the website are marketing mumbo jumbo. Let's see:

"It works by defragmenting game directories, temporarily shutting down background processes, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance."

Defragmenting game directories: Windows can do that pretty well, as well as any standard defrag program. In any case, games do not tend to write/change a lot of data to/on the HD once installed, so there is no extraordinary level of fragmenting going on that would not be taken care of by your monthly defrag run.

Temporarily shutting down background processes: Here's a little test: Do a fresh boot, open your task manager, make sure you enable the columns "CPU Time" and "Memory - Peak Working Set" (-> View -> Select Columns), and "Show Processes from all users". Take a screenshot of your task manager.

Keep the task manager open, and start Arma 2. Play for 30 minutes or so. Go back to your taskmanager, and compare both the CPU time and the peak working set with the ones in your screenshot. You will find the following:

1) All your processes together (excluding Arma) will only have consumed a few seconds of your processor time. Thats less than 0.1% of your total processor time. Which is the maximum performance gain you could possibly expect if you would be able to disable all processes other than Arma2.exe (which you can't).

2) If you want to have more detail, right click any of the svchost.exe entries in your task manager, then click "go to services". You will now see all services that are loaded into memory via DLLs through that specific service host process. Don't be suprised if each of the service host processes runs 5-20 services and displays 0 (that is, less than 1 second) total processor time.

3) Also, you will see that the peak working set of any process will not even come close to maxing out your memory (that is, if you have more than 2-3GB physical RAM). Windows automatically gives foreground processes the highest priority both in term of CPU and RAM allocation.

"Cleaning RAM" There is no plausible reason why you would want to "clean RAM" (what ever that means, they do not even bother to detail that).

RAM is best used by being fully utilized. Free RAM means wasting RAM. In case you will ever run out of RAM (which barely happens on modern rigs with multiple GBs if you are not running specific progs such as VMs or Photo/Video editing in the background while gaming), Windows is pretty good at prioritizing which data gets swapped to disk, which is based upon pretty clever algorithms.

"Freeing" or "Cleaning" ram means that a dumb program just brute forces all data that it deems (for whatever reason) unnecessary from RAM to disk. This causes disk writes and costs performance, because Windows will load this again into RAM whenever its own memory manager thinks it needs to be there. The point is, the only effect of "cleaning RAM" is that you see more unused RAM in task manager for a short time and feel good about for the wrong reasons.

Intensifying processor performance: I have no idea what the heck this should be. Maybe they mean giving the game a higher process priority, which again is already automatically done by Windows -> snake oil.

One doesn't have to test all magic fuel additives on the market that promise 20% more horsepower to know that its snake oil, if you know how a modern engine works. Or, you don't have to buy & read the newest book from the other TV preacher to know that it will not make you do wonders, even if it claims so.

That was my whole point. I am not saying that it is impossible that at some point in time some genius creates a tool that can improve windows process performance, but I would really like to see an explanation HOW (which is lacking here) and HOW MUCH (aka benchmarks, which are suspiciously completely lacking here as well). All there is is marketing gibberish.

Edited November 18, 2009 by qwertz

[andersson 285]

I believe alot of people do have a quite messy fragmented harddrive, they do have alot of services and processes running that are really clogging up the system. I seen a few myself when I had a look at friends computers (a long line of icons of programs they dont use down there to the right.. Programs and taskbars starting up to the left and right they never use and so on). I guess they can benefit as I can see a much better performance when I shut down all the crap and defrag their Hd.

For people that take care of their systems I guess not much will happen.

[no use for a name 0]

They're not charging you anything, there's no spyware/malware crap attached, and even if it does little to improve performance, it doesn't do any harm either. Why are people making a big deal out of this?

[Drew 10]

They're not charging you anything, there's no spyware/malware crap attached, and even if it does little to improve performance, it doesn't do any harm either. Why are people making a big deal out of this?

*sigh* my thoughts exactly, its a free program & it helps a little, even if its only a litltle...it does help. I'm not forcing anyone to click the link, nor am I forcing you to download it.., that being said ; end of discussion.