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: 11,284
- 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
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Reviewed by: THREEX7SIXTY9
Duration of ownership: 1 Days
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Overall Evaluation: "it would be wise to make a system restore point before running the program--just in case. --Ian Harac", Is a very good idea, even though i read the description and the bad review i still downloaded it, made a restore point just like was advised, installed it, it asks you to reboot as many programs do that mess with your registry after installing them,sum how it never let me log back into my user account, had to boot in safe mode, uninstall it, and restore my computer to a point almost a month old, losing files and not being able to log into your account is not fun, this is a sumwhat new computer,my overall expierence with this program is just as i typed it,read the descrpitions and reviews it might save you the hassle of trying to figure out what to do, i did and did it anyway, dont use it if you dont need it...
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Reviewed by: JimH443
Duration of ownership: 0 Days
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Overall Evaluation: I haven't tried this program, but I wanted to voice my suspicions about this kind of program. I never have and probably never will trust any program that changes system settings without at least mentioning what they're changing and what changes are being made. While this did no harm on the reviewers system, systems vary widely.
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