Improve Gaming Performance With One Click

[blackbird]

Hey guys,

Recently I found this handy tool to improve gaming performance by letting windows allocate more resources to the game than other non needed processes whilst gaming.

As you may know there are numerous other guides available which tell you which service(s) is ok to be disabled for a faster OS and gameing experience, I do recommend that you follow those guides to remove services which are not essential to your use such as server services when you are not running a server and al that but Im sure there are some people here who prefer not to have to completely disable a service but just disable it for gaming only.

This utility does exactly that, it lets you select multiple running services and then stops them with a click and re-starts them with another.

The name is Game Profile Utility

Created by Niris Computer Services so credit for this app goes to them.

Download Links

Official Site Link

Compatability

Site states its for Win2k/XP, however I reckon it should work on Vista the same

Vista users run the program with WinXP SP2 compatibility option (by right clicking-->properties) thanks to Ahmed_P800 for testing

Installation

No installation required, just download the proggy and run the .exe file thats it

This is the main window



After pressing setup you will get this window



By default a lot of services are highlighted in blue (will be stopped), I recommend you keep those highlighted and then highlight any other non-wanted service(s) if your not sure which ones to stop you can consult the following link

Link

(Credit for the link goes to NBR member "bootleg2go" as it was taken from his guide which I recommend you follow to disable the silly services not needed for day to day use)

Once you have highlighted those services you wish to have stopped whilst gaming click on "GO"



As you can see my system now looks like crap with themes disabled and many other services disabled which are shown in the applications dialog box.

You can now EXIT the application, it wont bring the services back or stuff up anything.

You can now play your game.

Note that when you press GO a file called GPsetup.txt will be created, dont delete this as this is what stores which services were stopped and is needed to brin those exact ones back, however if you made a mistake and highlighted a crucial service which caused problems and dont know which service it was you can delete this file after pressing STOP and the application will revert back to default setup.

Once you have finished playing the game open the applicatoin again and click on "STOP"



This will re-start all the services which had been highlighted then stopped.



Hope you all enjoy a smoother gaming experience with this handy application


Many of you might ask if this will give you a huge boost in fps during games, short answer no unless the game is very demanding on resources or you are short on ram, it will however make the game run smoother as more resources are given to the game rather than other services, this can help with newer games as they require much more resources.

[justanormalguy]

So basically this is really useful if you have a bunch of stuff installed / old OS, but in a fresh install, this should be useless, right?

[odin243]

No, it'd still be useful in a fresh install. It would disable system services that would be useless while gaming, but that you'd still want active when not gaming.

[n0elia]

It's the same a FS Autostart, made for flight simualtor, but works for every other game!

Link

And I think it is easier to use

But thanks anyway!

[justanormalguy]

Oh ok, I didn't read the whole thing (In my history class right now).

But I mean all it's doing is disabling themes and a few tiny things that take recourses whilst gaming...like the 56k modem and stuff...You can't expect a big FPS boost with this though.

[blackbird]

If your short on ram then yes it can help a lot.

Its just an easy way to stop services which you like to have for a limited time perioud (whilst gaming) which can at the same time make the game run smoothly as more resources are being given to the game then other services

[lokster]

or you could just get more ram, but nice proggy ima try it on an XP not a vista. thats too risky for gaming

[Jalf]

No, it'd still be useful in a fresh install. It would disable system services that would be useless while gaming, but that you'd still want active when not gaming.

All the services that are idle anyway, meaning that they don't actually consume CPU time or anything while gaming?
Which means it's pretty damn useless.

If you are short on RAM, then this will save you a little bit of load time (the time that would have otherwise been spent pushing the same services out to the pagefile). In actual ingame performance, I don't see how it can make any difference.

Benchmarks please.

[blackbird]

Originally Posted by Jalf

All the services that are idle anyway, meaning that they don't actually consume CPU time or anything while gaming?
Which means it's pretty damn useless.

If you are short on RAM, then this will save you a little bit of load time (the time that would have otherwise been spent pushing the same services out to the pagefile). In actual ingame performance, I don't see how it can make any difference.

Benchmarks please.

If all the services are idle then why do people go about disabling them and following all those guides....we then just let every service run then, also in my original post I have mentioned that it doesnt give you a fps boost but just may make your game run smoother.

[Dragonpet]

Thanks for the share blackbird!
Personally, I don't see the point of disabling services during gaming sessions, this is especially true if you have 2 gig or more RAM. The only reason I would disable any of my services was to decrease boot time or they are nagging me, such as windows upgrade. xD temperately disabling it doesn't do any of the above....