Everyone wants to squeeze out extra performance for gaming. Even a
few additional frames-per-second can help a player in competitive
online gaming or make single player games smoother and more
enjoyable. Buying new hardware is one way to do this; laboriously
tweaking system settings by hand is another. A third way is to run
GameGain, push a single button, and enjoy the results.
The program is very much a black box. It promises to change a wide
range of system settings in order to optimize your machine for
gameplay. It does not provide any list of settings tweaked or any
kind of user configuration. It has only two options: "Fast" and
"Fastest", the latter requiring the purchase of the software.
I tested it using Sony's Vanguard, currently the biggest
performance hog on my system. While Massively Multiplayer Online
Game performance is subject to a wide range of variables, over
extended playtime, I did notice a slight average increase in my
frame rate after running GameGain. At the least, it did no harm,
and if its effects are subtle, well, it's also free. Even so, since
it is changing a lot of system settings with no input from the
user, it would be wise to make a system restore point before
running the program--just in case.
--Ian Harac
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GameGain
- Version: 2.11.19.2007
- Downloads Count: 11,285
- License Type: Shareware
- Price: $12
- Date Added: Nov 20, 2007
- Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows ME, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Requirements: 90 MHz or faster Pentium, 16MB of RAM
- File Size: 841.0 KB
- Author: http://www.pgware.com
Editorial Review of GameGain
Reviewed by: THREEX7SIXTY9
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