On the Topic of "Game/FPS Boosters"

[ydufighjnmkkvgu7zx8ctvpybj bvj]

Now, I've read a lot about these supposed "game boosters" that are supposed to boost your FPS and make games run smoother such as "Razer Cortex: Boost". I've read lots of articles about these online and have heard positive and negative about them and have found myself indecisive. I thought that I might try using a program such as this to see for myself, although I thought that I would first ask here to get some more insight.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

get better hardware.

[Start_Running]

Most of these are like the ram boosters of old. They do very little to nothing

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

snake oil anyone?

[Silicon Vampire]

My opinion? snake oil.

[HEART]

About as useful as virtual memory allocation

[ydufighjnmkkvgu7zx8ctvpybj bvj]

Well, I guess Razer can ♥♥♥♥ off for the time being. Not downloading that.

[The Rock God]

From what I've read, Razer Cortex does help some people. But all it does is automate (one click) doing a few things you could do yourself. Still, it's not going to give you any big gains, and is mostly helpful on really low end systems. There are no magic pills to make a computer do something it can't already do.

[ambosen]

Many of these programs don'tt do anything but modify specific default settings for specific games. There'ss ussually a lot of games nott covered, and a lot these modifications cause minimal gains, if any. Some have been known to do thte exact opposite depending upon your game and hardware, actually *creating lower speeds.*

If you've got to mess around with advanced configuration settings you can't access normally from tthe in game settings, it's ussually best to look for the solution in the game's modding community; case in point; many games Bethesda makes have known performance issues related to a missappropriation of processor resources; the modding community has made solutions tto those issues both in advanced configuration tools with graphical front ends with very good documenttation on the possible problems you could cause yourself by applying changes, as well as various unofficial patch projects that can fix many of these issues.

Basically, always look at troubleshooting steps specific to the game first. Odds are someone's run into your issue and has a solution alreadsy, if it's possible.