Railworks America

Do you guys have an opinion about Game Booster versus Game Fire ?

I have been using Game Fire and just read about Game Booster. I was wondering if it would be worth to switch

Never heard of Game Fire. I use game booster to run Railworks and have good success with it.

Glenn

I started using Game Fire after some people in these forums recommended it.

Lonewolfdon used to recommend Game Booster, then he switched to Game Fire. Personally, I already have most services shut off anyways, so I don't need either one. Just my

For those of us who have no idea what these are.... what are they?

Don.

Don, what these programs do is automatically shut off any crap running in the back ground in Windows that are taking up resources. Gives you more CPU power, more free RAM. For a system that is on the edge, so to say, it can help performance quite a bit. Once you quit the game, all is back to normal.

Ah. Thanks, Chris.

Sounds interesting... might help my system.

I remember the good old days when we had a program called "End It All"... still had to guess what to turn off.

Don.

Found this old thread and tried out Game Fire. Remarkable improvement in smoothness and able to increase graphic settings too.

Its free - http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/game_fire.html

I have a new 64 bit laptop running Windows10

Is it still recommended to run tools like the ones mentioned in this thread ?

Cardinal51
With a good fast balanced system you do NOT need any boosters.
They go back to the days of single core low RAM archaic machines. They are mostly snake oil.
It is a fallacy that you have to shut down windows background services to give your game a boost! In many cases it is counterproductive.
A good PC with a good OS on a well maintained machine is all that you need!
The only tweak I use is to optimise/balance TS2017 usage across all 4 cores using the SET Affinity command via piece of freeware software.
pH

peterhayes wrote:Cardinal51
The only tweak I use is to optimise/balance TS2017 usage across all 4 cores using the SET Affinity command via piece of freeware software.
pH

You mentioned using a program to balance TS2017 usage on all 4 cores.

What real world perceptible difference or improvement does this create for the sim? Since it's a single threaded program that doesn't really take advantage of multicore.....wouldn't you rather have it run on a single core and thus taking advantage of the CPU's max turbo clock speed by doing so...as opposed to using multicores to run it at the expense of a lower clock speed?

BTW.... out of curiosity....what is the name of the program you use to load all 4 cores?

GSkid
How fast is a thread processed - very fast and you get almost simultaneous processing that's why you have fast cpu's and fast RAM. As one thread is "completed" another starts and so on. Plus multicore cpu's can do other tasks whilst say the main thread is being processed, and Windows ensures multi-threading takes place if the code is there..

From:https://www.lifewire.com/multiple-core-processors-832453

With multitasking, a single core processor can only handle a single thread at a time, so the system rapidly switches between the threads to process the data in a seemingly concurrent manner.

The benefit of having multiple cores is that the system can handle more than one thread. Each core can handle a separate stream of data.

A good example to explain this is to look at a typical PC game. Most games require some form of rendering engine to display what is happening in the game. In addition to this, there is some sort of artificial intelligence to control events and characters in the game. With a single core, both of these must function by switching between the two. This is not necessarily efficient. If the system had multiple processors, the rendering and AI could each run on a separate core. This looks like an ideal situation for a multiple core processor.

and so on

Process lasso - it sets affinity mask better than Windows, ensures the program is using all cores where possible (as Windows does)

Now to the single thread idea for TS2017 - open task manager (railworks.exe already started) now "set affinity" for railworks.exe to core 0 the "windows core), you are now running a "single thread" on a "single core" sit back and watch the slide show.

PeterH