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Recently my brother installed Game Booster on my laptop, an ACER Aspire 4740. I rarely play games in this; only play TF2 and DOTA 2. I need to know, does Game Booster really works in my laptop? The motherboard got busted a few months ago, more importantly I don't think it's in a good shape anymore knowing that this laptop easily over heats. I'm just afraid if it actually decreases my laptop's performance or not.

If it's not good, what software should I use to slightly improve my laptop's performance, other than CCleaner?

kthnx

It didn't do shit for me imo.

Sephora, on 29 December 2011 - 07:07 AM, said:

Solution?

Anyway, I created this thread to convince my brother to uninstall this right away if it's not doing any good.

Super Saiyan Swagga, on 29 December 2011 - 07:09 AM, said:

Solution is to just get a new laptop or get a laptop cooler. You can do all that CC cleaning and such all you want, but it wont help much considering you said that the motherboard is almost dead.

Also backup yo things.

...Game Booster? If any third party software (excluding graphics drivers) claims to boost gaming performance, it's complete BS. The most that these programs can do is turning off all the background processes except the game (which could potentially mess up things).

Also, improving laptop hardware performance is nigh impossible simply because it's a laptop and not designed to handle any sort of overclocking. If you want things to run faster, just do a clean install of your current OS and avoid reinstalling all the bloatware you had before.

Sephora, on 29 December 2011 - 07:18 AM, said:

The motherboard was most likely replaced after it broke, so it's irrelevant. Motherboard damage is generally reflected by your system completely failing, rather than slowdowns during performance. If his computer is slow, either the hardware just wasn't strong enough to start with, or he has too much junk installed. A new laptop cooler won't do much considering that his processor doesn't have turbo boost; it's unlikely that his processor is thermally throttled unless he was using the laptop in a bed or something.

EDIT> Uh oh, the Acer Aspire 4740 only has Intel GMA graphics and a last-gen i3. Definitely insufficient for any halfway decent 3D game. (Assuming you made a typo and meant the 4740G, even that model's GeForce 310M is very low-end. If you plan on playing modern games, you should consider assembling a desktop or buying a more modern laptop, if the former option does not appeal to you.)

Aristocrat, on 29 December 2011 - 07:22 AM, said:

oh I didnt realize this. You are correct about the hardware performance issues then.

Aristocrat, on 29 December 2011 - 07:22 AM, said:

Thanks for the tip

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I actually never installed anything here other than 3 steam games, skype, sai, and photoshop.

What do you mean by "system completely failing"?

If your motherboard is busted, your machine will be about as responsive as a brick. Was just pointing out that Reimu's comments about a "failing motherboard" is inaccurate.

tl;dr Game Booster is pointless. And laptop overheating issues (mobile parts aren't overheating unless you see temps above 90 degrees Celsius, although I'd only feel comfortable seeing temps below 75) can be resolved by propping it up against a book. No need to purchase a fancy cooler.

Aristocrat, on 29 December 2011 - 07:32 AM, said:

Snap.

Then I should change my laptop now?

If you have a budget in mind, I can search up some laptops and recommend them to you tomorrow; knowing your geographical location would be nice as well so I know whether or not I should look at deals available only to US residents.

Again though, unless you feel like there is a need to upgrade to a newer laptop, save the money or spend it on a desktop.

Aristocrat, on 29 December 2011 - 07:37 AM, said:

I'm saving for a new tablet so no.

I also have a good gaming pc even though the graphic card is a bit outdated.

Thanks anyway

well, Game Booster did help me, but it wasn't as noticeable as hoped, But Aristocrat is if you turn off things like explore.exe it may speed up performance but it can damage how specific things respond to click and what-not.

redwings464, on 29 December 2011 - 08:11 AM, said:

How does that work?

I don't even know, i only do it when i'm playing AC Revelations

redwings464, on 29 December 2011 - 08:32 AM, said:

...how is that possible

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.__________________________. i dont know it just works somehow o:...

uhhhh wait...what is the description of the process explore.exe?

I think you have a virus on your hands if you didn't mean explorer.exe which is windows explorer.

Nosebleed, on 29 December 2011 - 07:05 PM, said:

I think he means exactly that. Yes, it can be "turned off" via task manager, but I don't recommend it. Basically, just a PC restart makes it possible to get back to the desktop after ending explorer.exe, if I remember correctly.

Mayson, on 30 December 2011 - 03:22 AM, said:

Or you can do it from Task Manager, by clicking the "New Task..." button and typing "explorer.exe".

redwings464, on 29 December 2011 - 08:11 AM, said:

I never even thought about turning off explorer.exe.... do games still even work? I mean explorer is basically the shell of windows, I don't think games would be able to run properly with that turned off.