Do game boosters actually work?

Empress Unicorn·Apr 12, 2015·1 votes·869 views

I'm just curious since im having such trouble playing League in the middle of a Sunday afternoon... One game will be perfect (granted avg. Of 9-15fps and 110 permaping isnt exactly the greatest from what I've heard/seen) And the next game is just plain old shit.

Soooo Im curious do any of you have experience with gameboosters and apart from buying better internet and a new computer or deleting unessecary programs (2 of the 3 I have alrwady done) are there any other ways to improve my ping/fps.

Oh and everything is on the lowest setting that i can put it on. Help Please?

4 Comments

NilokApr 12, 20152 votes

A game booster simply shuts down background programs that slow down your computer, you have achieve the same or better effect if you simply shutdown the background programs yourself.

Unless you have a lot of background programs running at the same time (or Firefox eating 2 gigabytes of memory), you won't get a massive increase in performance, you most likely need to upgrade your video card if you have a desktop. If you have a laptop, you're probably out of luck.

Your ping will have more of a problem since that is dictated by your internet service provide, which is crap in the US.

Another potential cause of your slowdown, both fps or internet, is a virus or other malware that is taxing your computer or using your internet. Run a deep scan on your computer if you feel it may be those.

Empress UnicornApr 12, 20151 votes

Thanks for the input. how would i shut down the programs running in the background? I can't seem to find out what's running on the task manager...?

NilokApr 12, 20151 votes

If you open Task Manager and click on the Processes tab, you should be able to see what processes (programs) are running in the background.

DO NOT start shutting down processes unless you know what it is, like your web browser or flash player. If something is using a lot of memory or CPU, search it online and it should tell you what it does. Last thing you want to do is end up shutting down your audio or video driver backend and have to restart your computer.

Edit: You can also see what programs are using your internet by opening Resource Monitor and selecting the Network tab.

Empress UnicornApr 13, 20151 votes

Thanks! I'll give it a go