Steam Game Booster / Steam: Turbo Mode

[Kirito San]

Today I have a head full of bright ideas. It could be by the announcement of SteamOS.
But this is the best:

Steam would be great if I had the option to "Game Mode" to optimize performance.

We can do as Third Party Services "Razer Game Booster" "Tune Up Utilities: Turbo Mode and more ..."

But it would be best if Steam functionality itself. Especially when we open the Steam Big Picture, for others unimportant services do not affect our performance.

[Satoru]

Those tools dont actually do anything. Ergo incorporating the placebo effect is a waste of resources

[Kirito San]

No placebo effect. What they do is allow you to choose which processes and services will be closed when running the game, and re-opened to close the game.

[Tito Shivan]

And closing those processes and services have little to none repercusion on performance increase.
We're far beyond the time where not loading a service was the barrier between running or not a game.

[Kirito San]

I use razer previously used game booster and tune up, is what I mean and it worked. No problems. and I am very grateful. This option would enhance many users to run certain games.
It's stupid to discuss whether it works or not, of course it is. Study and please know of what they speak. If debatieses if the idea is good or not, I'd understand. But in "Steam Tips" are people who only know how to complain, I llevais the award for stupidest complaint. Take an old computer, try the yields before and after GameBooster or TuneUp Turbo.

[Satoru]

Unless you're running XP, having some application 'close processes' is utterly worthless.

The OS is far better at managing disk/CPU/memory etc.

If doing that makes any difference to your computer, your computer must be so horrible that it can't keep up with that. Ergo you're using software to solve what is a hardware problem. Stop running games on a Pentium M with 512MB of memory. Gamebooster is the least of your problems.

You're free to make a suggestion

And others are free to critique said suggestion.

[Τhe Rolling Cheese Wheel]

There are only two legitimate ways to boost a computer's speed via software, and one won't even impact the system much.

1. A software that kills processes that are irrelevant to keep the system running, i.e. antiviruses, printing applications, instant messaging application, skype, etc. In this day and age, it is very likely that if you are gaming on a PC, you will have a high enough amount of ram that killing processes will not increase gaming performance.

2. Software overclocking, these do work, but at the risk of damaging your hardware.

Software process killing use to be a fantastic way to increase relative computer speed, but those days are over. The only thing you can do to get results is either overclock or put pressure on developers to optimize the game or the operating system.

[Tito Shivan]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Unless you're running XP, having some application 'close processes' is utterly worthless.

The OS is far better at managing disk/CPU/memory etc.

Correct. On any mid to high-end machine these apps are nothing more than snake oil for computers.
Only place where they make a bit of a difference is on highly bloated, badly maintained systems. Or really low end ones.

I didn't notice TuneUp was on the list. It's the very definition of bloatware and nagware. There's no room in hell for the makers of such software finesse IMHO.