More snakeoil or legit?

rezerekted

rezerekted

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On sale so am considering giving it a go.



"This product is based on a patented "Generation 3" whitelisting (with sandbox) technology that boots Windows into a special Gaming Mode. Most users will experience smoother gameplay and a slight FPS increase."
 
Sounds like some real greasy snake oil to me.

Try it out and let us know with a full review with screenshots of the app working and any BSOD's you might get.
 
OK, just bought it and will do some testing with it and post back here. But the benefit might not be measurable if it just gives a smoother experience and not a FPS boost. I'm looking for less stutters, etc. and not a FPS increase. One of the benefits of console systems is minimal OS in the background and this sounds like it may do something similar, or maybe not. It better completely shut down Windows Defender when I run it.

Bought Dragon's Dogma on sale at Gamersgate and that is a 14GB download, then I have 3 game updates so it will be a bit before I test it out.
 
Shadohh said:
Sounds like windows 10 game mode.
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Does a bit but Win10 game mode gives resource priority to the game and I don't think this does but the effect is the same because it shuts down Windows crap that is not needed. I have Win8.1 though and don't plan to switch to 10 just yet, although I do have a copy of Win10 I could install.
 
Sounds like it whitelists programs so they don't go through the os?

I use to close explorer.exe to play games for a boost.
 
I guess I don't get it. My CPU sits at 0 percent utilization when idle. I don't see a way to make my background task take up any less background processing power while gaming ...
 
I suppose if you have a bunch of garbage running all of the time (apps from 5-6 years ago loved to invade your startup) it might help a little. Yet at the same time, you can just download CCleaner and just remove all of that stuff permanently for free anyway. I'm sure it's better than those old "RAM Boosters" but it's not doing anything you couldn't do yourself with CCleaner or even just your Task Manager.

As far as stuttering goes, usually that goes deeper than background programs. That's usually the game itself or some sort of conflict with your frametime, refresh rate, etc.
I'd suggest looking to programs that let you toggle between fullscreen and borderless or even FPS limiters (all free) before something like this.
 
OK, back from testing. Weird thing is I only bought the game accelerator but my license includes the security app too. Good thing because this app did not suspend Defender in any mode as I was hoping. I wanted it to suspend Defender when gaming and then enable it again after a reboot. Nope.

This is after it reboots into game mode and if you have any background apps running it will ask you if you want to suspend them or not. In max boost mode it will suspend them without asking. But as I said, it did not ask this for Defender, which it should IMO. AV causes lower disk I/O performance so that is a given as a process to suspend. But most don't allow shutting down so easy and Defender only allows you to shut off realtime protection. Although I believe you can shut down its service to completely turn it off.

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No, never got any 79% performance boost either. Here's my benches.

Unigene Valley

stock FPS 120.4 score 5038 min 37.1 max 174.6

gamemode FPS 122.3 score 5117 min 36.6 max 177.8


FEAR
stock min 71 avg 86 max 101

gamemode min 69 avg 85 max 102

maxmode min 73 avg 90 max 112

Well, there is a small dif in numbers but the results would be just as dif if you ran stock numerous times. Going by this though I would say I need to play some games and see if I get less stuttering, pauses, etc.
 
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I've already uninstalled it and requested a refund. It went through activation four times today. It says it will periodically re-activate but 4 times on the first day? Get stuffed.
 
I recall trying out the original version several years ago. It actually did work really well to boost performance at the time, but it was too aggressive and didn't play nicely with Windows. It's sad to hear it is nagging you so often.
 
So greasy snake oil it is. Thanks for the review and the guinea pigness.

The app may work for the peeps who are highly infected with adware and toolbars etc. so that the PC can actually get to some free resources but for anything else is pretty much useless.
 
DrLobotomy said:
So greasy snake oil it is. Thanks for the review and the guinea pigness.

The app may work for the peeps who are highly infected with adware and toolbars etc. so that the PC can actually get to some free resources but for anything else is pretty much useless.
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Well, it does show a small increase in performance in the benches I did but that may have happened just from different runs of the benches anyway. Not enough increase to put up with its extra layer of annoyance. You have to reboot the PC every time you change mode and I am not doing that whenever I want to game.
 
rezerekted said:
Well, it does show a small increase in performance in the benches I did but that may have happened just from different runs of the benches anyway. Not enough increase to put up with its extra layer of annoyance. You have to reboot the PC every time you change mode and I am not doing that whenever I want to game.
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That vaguely reminds of life with Win 3.1 and Win 95 and some old DOS titles. Had to make special autoexec.bat and config.sys and some others for each title according to whatever sound card and joystick etc you had.

Ahh.. the good ole days
 
DrLobotomy said:
That vaguely reminds of life with Win 3.1 and Win 95 and some old DOS titles. Had to make special autoexec.bat and config.sys and some others for each title according to whatever sound card and joystick etc you had.

Ahh.. the good ole days
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Yea, I had a Dos boot menu with about four different configs I could choose depending on the game. PITA.
 
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