Vista - Increase your Gaming FPS

Hey guys I read about this program in Australian PC Authority magazine, completely free it was meant to increase performance in gaming (mainly for vista), checked it out and added an extra average 5 Frames Per Second for most of my games.

I suggested it to one of the guys on the forum he liked it, so Im putting it out there, try it if you want, if you dont, no big issue.
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So you would increase your FPS by running another program in the background? That would probably desabilize your whole system if it shuts down essential services.

it doesnt believe it or not, it disables nonessential services while playing such as the print spooler. and you choose what to disable ontop of nonessential windows programs, ie anti-virus etc, things that take up alot of memory and CPU load.
I have never crashed once whilst running this program, I have only ever seen the benefits.
If you play you should try it for yourself

Fair enough but I'd rather buy a GTX 295 with a new system. Nothing can substitute for good hardware.

I would as well, my GTX280 just doesnt do it for me anymore (especially when i see those GTX295's benchmarks), I would relish the opportunity to run 3 GTX295's on my mobo. but for that I'd have to upgrade my power supply too though..
show me the money!

Outside of benchmarks, x3 295's would be pointless in real world performance as you can't go any higher than quad SLI. Having the third 295 as a dedicated physx card would also be a bit of a waste.

But judging by that OC rig you posted, you like to bench

looking at what services it disables i think ill give it a try cant do any harm , dont think it'll make any differance unless you have a low end machine

i have some custom cod 5 benchmarks i created , ill run it and try it out tomorrow on and off , ill report back

Im saving up slowly for one of the new gulfstream CPU's coming out Q1 next year, I will crank that CPU until it melts, unless liquid nitrogen has something to say about it. when I run out of that, I will most likely install some decent icepacks

Of course you are absolutely right to say there is no substitute for good hardware, the problem is, not everybody can afford "good hardware", so a little tool like this can do wonders to a low end machine, i used it years ago when i was on steam power and it did the job quite well, all it does is shut down services that you would shutdown yourself, it just does it with one hit of a button. If you are struggling with FPS's, then this little add-on is worth a look.

ok im back , it stopped quite a few services had no effect on my memory usage increased the cpu load a little and made no differance to my ingame fps (i was testing ingame and with real world custom timedemos and with FRAPS using its benchmark fps facility

I can be quite positive and say that this software is a little pointless

if you have 1 gig of ram and a very low end rig maybe it'll make a differance otherwise waste of time

i really dont know how with that rig you have this program can have improved your ingame fps at all..........are you sure its not just the placebo effect??

I seem a little sharp sometimes....im not really just pointing out this program is a bit poo ......... you did ask us to try it

I did use it to defrag my cod5 files but im assuming as each folder is quite small that'll make no differance either

No its not