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Game Fire is a PC game booster, a software that tries to improve computer performance in order to achieve the best gaming experience. Game Fire will not do miracles, however by using Game Fire we guarantee that you will have the best possible gaming experience by dedicating all available resources to games and apps that matter and reducing resources consumed by unnecessary services and background processes.

Game Fire can significantly enhance your gaming experience by boosting system performance and reliability, this will help eliminate lags and interruptions and improve game FPS. Game Fire optimizes your computer performance by turning off unnecessary system features, applying various system tweaks and focusing computer resources on games you are playing. The result would be a great gaming experience with a single mouse click.

Unlike other game boosters, Game Fire can boost games and apps performance in real-time so that they can fully utilize available system resources like CPU and memory and in the same time it deprioritize unnecessary and background processes. Game Fire also provides real-time system health and performance information like the CPU and GPU temperature and clock speed.
Game Fire gives experienced users the control on every aspect of the optimization process using an easy and powerful user interface. Game Fire also provides a wide range of powerful optimization tools that can squeeze every bit of performance out of your computer like a disk defragment utility, settings tweaking tool, applications optimizer and many more.

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Windows Vista with Service Pack 2/ 7 with Service Pack 1/ 8/ 8.1/ 10 (32-Bit or 64-bit); Supported languages: English and Portuguese

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1 Year/1 PC; basic support, reinstallable

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Would this work on any software? I have a web designer that runs slow and would like to know if it would help this too.

Reply | Comment by Lesley Brown – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-2)

To [ Lesley Brown ],

The point of GOTD is that YOU download the offering of the day and try it and YOU then tell us.

Thanks for exploring this and sharing.
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Reply | Comment by Peter Blaise – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)

After downloading, installing, and registering the program without any problems I then used the feature under the My Games tab to add my main internet browser. Result was that the browser seemed to stream the videos from YouTube, Hulu, etc. without any frame drops and the program I use to monitor resource usage shows that ram and CPU usage is running much lower.
So for me, this program is a huge boon and I give Giveawayoftheday.com and Smart PC Utilities a very sincere Thanks!

Reply | Comment by Lee Foster – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+4)

Why use apps like Game Fire Pro? Because when it comes to Windows devices, PCs, laptops, tablets etc., speed costs. Higher performance costs more $ to begin with, but it also has costs requiring more power [and lessening battery life], often takes up more space, and requires more active cooling, which can require more maintenance. In short, even if/when you can afford it, a higher end PC, laptop, or tablet just doesn’t always make the best sense – a lower end laptop for example can do most things like running Office just fine. It’s just not great at running some games. Something like Game Fire Pro **may** help with that.

That’s Not to say that Game Fire Pro is going to even begin to make up for the difference between hardware at the high and low ends of the market. To get top performance on the most demanding games is going to take lots of cash, end of story. Just a good graphics card for a PC is going to start around $400. More RAM can help, but not as much nowadays as in years past. An SSD instead of a regular hard drive helps running Windows generally but may not make much if any difference gaming. What Game Fire Pro [& similar apps] can do is *try* to make up for inefficiencies in the way your device is set up, hopefully giving you a boost in games that you’ll notice. It may or may not make any real difference, depending on how your device is set up. A Lenovo laptop for example might have all sorts of bloatware added, including one or two that are poorly designed, consuming up to a quarter of the available horsepower. That would likely see more benefit from today's GOTD than something similar where you installed Win10 without all the junk.

Reply | Comment by mike – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+5)

mike, 400$ for new graphics card? LOL 160$ will get you a good mid range gpu.

SSD, not make much if any difference gaming???? I stopped reading right there, clearly you know nothing about computers, I would stop posting wrong incorrect information.

Reply | Comment by Mike – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-2)

Are those the same "mike"?

It would be really really funny if they are.

Anyway,

-- an SSD replacing an HDD in a 3Gb/s or even 6Gb/s SATA interface will not change ENTIRE computer performance on on-screen program responsiveness much,

-- and folks can't download a GOTD physical replacement video card hardware free today for testing.

We've got what we've got.

Suggesting that buying more hardware is better than testing free offerings at GOTD just begs the question as to why the reviewer is here instead of over at [ UserBenchmark. com ] where is is all about the hardware, not the software.

Thanks for exploring this and sharing.
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Reply | Comment by Peter Blaise – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-3)

Thanks for your production. Can sombody hear about you?
Best reguards!

Reply | Comment by tueqng – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-14)

As I explored elsewhere, this arrives at GOTD in same version with problems unfixed:

Crash: I wrote "... In the Process Optimizer, click on the Description column heading to sort, or click on the Publisher column heading to sort, and tell us if it crashes for you, too … I got “unhandled exception”, “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”, then the user interface crashes, though the tray icon stays, and we can open the user interface again from the tray icon ..."

Game Fire responded "... Thanks for reporting this, I can reproduce the error myself. that is because the tray app is running as separate process GFTray.exe ..."

More, my random notes:

I suggest to immediately manually change their power plan, they shut off the computer after 60 minutes, knocking it and it’s resources off my network - many of the other items in the power plan are questionable, so tune up the power plan immediately.

I find this to be very busy, like free Bitsum Process Lasso … but on steroids – Bitsum Process Lasso just tries to balance things, this tries to tilt the computer performance in overwhelming favor of the foreground program.

Initially, it seemed stable, and the computer seemed responsive, more stable and responsive than usual.

I don’t play games, I just want a responsive computer ( and no, I will not close any one of my 60+ Google Chrome tabs !!! ).

If all I had to do was tune up some settings and make the minimum processor speed 100%, shoot me for missing that.

More importantly, try reinstalling Windows first to see what our computers were like when new, then see if Game Fire either improves above that, or, for computers we hesitate to reinstall, see if Game Fire returns performance to like new.

( Note: I am writing this on a computer where Game Fire crashed the computer so severely that I did reinstall Windows 7 64 Pro, and now the computer is fresh and responsive -- without Game Fire -- so, in a way, Game Fire did actually lead to the computer being fresh and responsive again, argh. )

It is special to see Game Fire pop up and actively boost foreground processes, though.

Other boosters seem a tad bit conservative compared to this.

We’ll see.

Does anyone have a benchmark program that reveals what the difference is?

Yet, I know of no benchmark that measures responsiveness, only data transfer rate – I want responsiveness first.

Game Fire's license is married to one computer's hardware, I’d prefer the license to convey with ME, not with the PC, such that wherever I went, I could just log in and it would log me out of the other instance.

Also, check out their other utilities from their website, even their trial versions offer some tuning.

Do a complete anti malware scan or two after installing their stuff, though … ahem.

Digging deeper, there are lots of backward-think ambiguous settings buried deep down in all sorts of different places inside this software, and sometimes selecting a [ service ], [ process ], or [ scheduled task ] to “optimise” means to turn them off … I think the programming teams for this software did not coordinate with each other very well.

Apparently the "Optimise" button displayed below a [ service ], [ process ], or [ scheduled task ] means "Optimize the COMPUTER by turning the thing displayed above OFF", it does not mean "Optimize the displayed [ service ], [ process ], or [ scheduled task ] above".

See Settings >> Other >> Advanced Settings >> Edit Game Mode [ service ], [ process ], or [ scheduled tasks ], and there, “optimize” effectively means “turn off”.

Yet in the Game Module Profile, there are different profiles, and we cannot compare them to each other, and there, “suspend” means “turn off”, unless we click Advanced, then we’re back at a place where “optimize” means “turn off”.

Did different programmers of each module not talk to each other?

Clicking [ Defaults ] changes things NOT on screen ( but does not reset everything ), so we have to inspect and try to remember what we thought we might have set on any controls that are not in view when we click [ Defaults ].

There’s no way of knowing what’s turned on before or after using Game Fire, so if we “toggle” a service, process, or scheduled task, it my or may not have been on or off before, and it may or may not be on or off after – who knows?

So, we can try not to touch anything and let it act on OOBE Out Of the Box Experience defaults, or we can play with the settings, diving into the menus and modules, and hope we don’t get in our own way, as the program will not intelligently assist in making decisions with us or for us … though the System Optimization section does have explanation of each control, but I don’t know what it plans to do, for instance, it says turn off Memory Cache if we have more than 2 GB of RAM … what they mean by Memory Cache, they do not say in the program, so I tried it on and off, and the [ pagefile.sys ] is still there in [ C:\ ], and the setting in Windows [ Virtual Memory ] is the same regardless of which way I set Game Fire, so … ?!?

I asked for F Farenheit, it shows C Celcius anyway … it claims to run at 100% processor speed, yet reports about 43% processor speed … under CPU it says CPU, that’s it, no further information about CPU … and RAM is described as, wait for it, RAM … otherwise it does offer typical hardware details for me – it looks as if they are using universal programmer’s toolkits, and they are just poorly implemented, poorly integrated, see alternatives from Open Hardware Monitor, CPUId, SysInternals BGInfo, and so on instead, but it would be nice if this software always had a dashboard with indicator gauges, and simple 1-2-3 steps to see and control everything, all on screen at the same time, so if I turn off something in panel 2, I see the available RAM increase immediately in panel 4, for example.

The interface is inconsistent even on one screen, such as on the System Optimizer screen, the checks on the left are not clickable, the checks in the upper right may or may not be clickable, the checks at the bottom are toggles and don’t get applied until the checks on the upper right is clicked … if and when when the checks on the upper right is actually clickable – follow? ( And yes, "checks" is a singular plural here, the control is not one, but a group of checks that are one. )

There’s an icon of sorts with three lines, and below that, there’s an icon of sorts with three dots, both of which open settings of some sort, some settings are the same through both icons, some settings are unique to each – follow?

System Diagnostics does not actually diagnose anything, it merely reports ( am I right in suspecting that it is a WMI Windows Management Instrumentation dump ? ).

Some things displayed in a list show information when right-clicked, some things show a menu of things to do when right-clicked, like search the web, or look at properties, and some things ignore right clicks altogether – try whatever you think should work, and it might work .. and it might not work.

The System Optimizer section seems to be independent of the Profiles section, hence my suggestion that they have 4 panels open all the time across our screen when the program is open:

[ Operating System Toggles ] [ Profiles and Toggles ] [ Hardware/Software Results ] [ Performance Results ]

… or something like that, but everything always in view while we are tuning the software.

I believe that designing a functional, intuitive user interface takes 80% of any developer’s programing resources, so if this is version 6, then I do not expect the user interface to mature into logical usability until … version 24?

Oy.

I guess I can uninstall it, then reinstall it, in order to reset it to defaults, after I have explored, and after I have no idea what I may have touched and changed.

After much exploration, I believe that my review above is accurate, so I recommend to make copious restore points, rebooting in between changes, so we can go back to before we played with this software, then either install and let it go to work, or if we do touch it, then we must touch it very iteratively, and take written notes off-computer on paper to keep track of what me may have touched, and make note of what each setting was and what we changed it to, because the program keep sno before/after inventory, no "go back" feature, there is no universal reset, no universal defaults, except for R&R Remove and Reinstall the whole program -- and R&R Remove and Reinstall the operating system -- and start over ... which sadly, I have done.

Are we having fun yet?

Read their responses at [ https :// sharewareonsale. com/discuss/topic/game-fire-pro-jul-16-2020 ]

Thanks to everyone who has explored this and shared.
.

As I explored elsewhere, this arrives at GOTD in same version with problems unfixed:

Crash: I wrote "... In the Process Optimizer, click on the Description column heading to sort, or click on the Publisher column heading to sort, and tell us if it crashes for you, too … I got “unhandled exception”, “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”, then the user interface crashes, though the tray icon stays, and we can open the user interface again from the tray icon ..."

Game Fire responded "... Thanks for reporting this, I can reproduce the error myself. that is because the tray app is running as separate process GFTray.exe ..."

More, my random notes:

I suggest to immediately manually change their power plan, they shut off the computer after 60 minutes, knocking it and it’s resources off my network - many of the other items in the power plan are questionable, so tune up the power plan immediately.

I find this to be very busy, like free Bitsum Process Lasso … but on steroids – Bitsum Process Lasso just tries to balance things, this tries to tilt the computer performance in overwhelming favor of the foreground program.

Initially, it seemed stable, and the computer seemed responsive, more stable and responsive than usual.

I don’t play games, I just want a responsive computer ( and no, I will not close any one of my 60+ Google Chrome tabs !!! ).

If all I had to do was tune up some settings and make the minimum processor speed 100%, shoot me for missing that.

More importantly, try reinstalling Windows first to see what our computers were like when new, then see if Game Fire either improves above that, or, for computers we hesitate to reinstall, see if Game Fire returns performance to like new.

( Note: I am writing this on a computer where Game Fire crashed the computer so severely that I did reinstall Windows 7 64 Pro, and now the computer is fresh and responsive -- without Game Fire -- so, in a way, Game Fire did actually lead to the computer being fresh and responsive again, argh. )

It is special to see Game Fire pop up and actively boost foreground processes, though.

Other boosters seem a tad bit conservative compared to this.

We’ll see.

Does anyone have a benchmark program that reveals what the difference is?

Yet, I know of no benchmark that measures responsiveness, only data transfer rate – I want responsiveness first.

Game Fire's license is married to one computer's hardware, I’d prefer the license to convey with ME, not with the PC, such that wherever I went, I could just log in and it would log me out of the other instance.

Also, check out their other utilities from their website, even their trial versions offer some tuning.

Do a complete anti malware scan or two after installing their stuff, though … ahem.

Digging deeper, there are lots of backward-think ambiguous settings buried deep down in all sorts of different places inside this software, and sometimes selecting a [ service ], [ process ], or [ scheduled task ] to “optimise” means to turn them off … I think the programming teams for this software did not coordinate with each other very well.

Apparently the "Optimise" button displayed below a [ service ], [ process ], or [ scheduled task ] means "Optimize the COMPUTER by turning the thing displayed above OFF", it does not mean "Optimize the displayed [ service ], [ process ], or [ scheduled task ] above".

See Settings >> Other >> Advanced Settings >> Edit Game Mode [ service ], [ process ], or [ scheduled tasks ], and there, “optimize” effectively means “turn off”.

Yet in the Game Module Profile, there are different profiles, and we cannot compare them to each other, and there, “suspend” means “turn off”, unless we click Advanced, then we’re back at a place where “optimize” means “turn off”.

Did different programmers of each module not talk to each other?

Clicking [ Defaults ] changes things NOT on screen ( but does not reset everything ), so we have to inspect and try to remember what we thought we might have set on any controls that are not in view when we click [ Defaults ].

There’s no way of knowing what’s turned on before or after using Game Fire, so if we “toggle” a service, process, or scheduled task, it my or may not have been on or off before, and it may or may not be on or off after – who knows?

So, we can try not to touch anything and let it act on OOBE Out Of the Box Experience defaults, or we can play with the settings, diving into the menus and modules, and hope we don’t get in our own way, as the program will not intelligently assist in making decisions with us or for us … though the System Optimization section does have explanation of each control, but I don’t know what it plans to do, for instance, it says turn off Memory Cache if we have more than 2 GB of RAM … what they mean by Memory Cache, they do not say in the program, so I tried it on and off, and the [ pagefile.sys ] is still there in [ C:\ ], and the setting in Windows [ Virtual Memory ] is the same regardless of which way I set Game Fire, so … ?!?

I asked for F Farenheit, it shows C Celcius anyway … it claims to run at 100% processor speed, yet reports about 43% processor speed … under CPU it says CPU, that’s it, no further information about CPU … and RAM is described as, wait for it, RAM … otherwise it does offer typical hardware details for me – it looks as if they are using universal programmer’s toolkits, and they are just poorly implemented, poorly integrated, see alternatives from Open Hardware Monitor, CPUId, SysInternals BGInfo, and so on instead, but it would be nice if this software always had a dashboard with indicator gauges, and simple 1-2-3 steps to see and control everything, all on screen at the same time, so if I turn off something in panel 2, I see the available RAM increase immediately in panel 4, for example.

The interface is inconsistent even on one screen, such as on the System Optimizer screen, the checks on the left are not clickable, the checks in the upper right may or may not be clickable, the checks at the bottom are toggles and don’t get applied until the checks on the upper right is clicked … if and when when the checks on the upper right is actually clickable – follow? ( And yes, "checks" is a singular plural here, the control is not one, but a group of checks that are one. )

There’s an icon of sorts with three lines, and below that, there’s an icon of sorts with three dots, both of which open settings of some sort, some settings are the same through both icons, some settings are unique to each – follow?

System Diagnostics does not actually diagnose anything, it merely reports ( am I right in suspecting that it is a WMI Windows Management Instrumentation dump ? ).

Some things displayed in a list show information when right-clicked, some things show a menu of things to do when right-clicked, like search the web, or look at properties, and some things ignore right clicks altogether – try whatever you think should work, and it might work .. and it might not work.

The System Optimizer section seems to be independent of the Profiles section, hence my suggestion that they have 4 panels open all the time across our screen when the program is open:

[ Operating System Toggles ] [ Profiles and Toggles ] [ Hardware/Software Results ] [ Performance Results ]

… or something like that, but everything always in view while we are tuning the software.

I believe that designing a functional, intuitive user interface takes 80% of any developer’s programing resources, so if this is version 6, then I do not expect the user interface to mature into logical usability until … version 24?

Oy.

I guess I can uninstall it, then reinstall it, in order to reset it to defaults, after I have explored, and after I have no idea what I may have touched and changed.

After much exploration, I believe that my review above is accurate, so I recommend to make copious restore points, rebooting in between changes, so we can go back to before we played with this software, then either install and let it go to work, or if we do touch it, then we must touch it very iteratively, and take written notes off-computer on paper to keep track of what me may have touched, and make note of what each setting was and what we changed it to, because the program keep sno before/after inventory, no "go back" feature, there is no universal reset, no universal defaults, except for R&R Remove and Reinstall the whole program -- and R&R Remove and Reinstall the operating system -- and start over ... which sadly, I have done.

Are we having fun yet?

Read their responses at [ https :// sharewareonsale. com/discuss/topic/game-fire-pro-jul-16-2020 ]

Thanks to everyone who has explored this and shared.
.

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Reply | Comment by Peter Blaise – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+19)

Peter Blaise, the spaces in your hyperlink make it untraceable.

Reply | Comment by dirkje – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-2)

Note, of course when copying and pasting my shared web link, remove the spaces in the link before trying to go there:

Read their dialog with Smart PC Utilities at
[ https :// sharewareonsale. com/discuss/topic/game-fire-pro-jul-16-2020 ]

FYI For Your Information, I put spaces in links so they do not cause the post to get rejected or delayed, and so that GOTD does not become a traceable advertisement for other web pages they do not intend to go on record as referring people to.

Reply | Comment by Peter Blaise – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+3)

In response to [ TK ], who wrote in response to my comment "... no, I will not close any one of my 60+ Google Chrome tabs ..." and gracefully ignored the other 1,500+ words in my diatribe:

Yea, I also have noticed non-tab Google programs running, and I toggle them off using free Microsoft SysInternals [ AutoRuns ], though telling free Bitsum [ Process Lasso ] to deny them is a fall-back alternative, kill these:

c:\program files (x86)\google\chrome\application\...[Chrome version number ] ...\elevation_service.exe

c:\program files (x86)\google\update\googleupdate.exe ( 2 instances )

All Chrome-based browsers are now using the elevation service, which I presume is a mini-Process-Lasso tweaker dedicated to boosting the one Chrome program itself - free Microsoft Edge now inserts their own elevation service, for example.

Sadly, I find Google to be Microsoft Jr in their bone-headed resistance to customer-centric programming.

For example, why can't Google Chrome print a web page properly formatted as PDF for paper or later screen review, when free Firefox, and especially free Opera, have figured out so much better style sheets for printing to PDF, Opera even offering to save as one long scrollable PDF page, great for comments web pages, and free [ PrintFriendly. com ] even strips out unrelated web-page-noise and marginalia, and resizes all fonts for consistent reading ( though it strips out comments ! )?

Google Chrome has recently reduced their heavy, overwhelming dominance of memory and CPU, and there are tuning tips and tricks out there, such that my 45+ tabs on an i5 2600 MHz x4 with 8 GB Windows 7 64 Pro seems responsive, even though the tab bar gives up and no longer shows new tabs once they get too small, and the gods forbid Google use 2 rows, apparently.

Remember how sweet was free [ Tab Mix Plus ] for Firefox?

I use Google Chrome mostly for it's superlative spell check ( which still needs improvement ), and it's automatic in-browser page translation, especially useful in chats where each person responds in a different language, and instantly, it's all in the same language.

I switch to ANY other browser whenever Google Chrome offends me.

And I switch to ANY other computer whenever one computer offends me, hence my suggestion to GameFire to license the USER, not the PC, letting us log in wherever we are, which would automatically log us out of other instances - I have a dozen or more computers, doesn't everyone?

- - - - -

On topic, I find Game Fire to be perhaps the most effective "gaming" program at causing the active on-screen program to be responsive, presumably by tilting the balance of CPU and resources attention.

However, the defaults out of the box, so to speak, are interfering ( such as shutting off the computer after 60 minutes ), but playing with the settings is wildly random and almost uncontrollable, no history, no "return to prior settings", no "return to before Game Fire", hence my extended exploration elsewhere and here at #3.

My suggestion for the program to have 4 live panels across the screen - [ System Settings ], [ Program Settings ], [ Settings Results ], [ Performance Results ], so the user can make adjustments and see results altogether on one presentation did not even garner a "thank you" from the programmer.

Perhaps I was too harsh in my lead in getting there, perhaps I will learn to replace "what you did wrong was ..." with "great start, now where this could go is ...".

Did they or you notice I said I was writing this on a computer I reformatted and reinstalled the operating system on because Game Fire crashed it so irredeemably?

Yeah, that's how safe Game Fire is when trying to learn how to master it's settings, with no fall back within Game Fire if things go awry.

A fresh install of Windows 7 64 Pro feels real responsive ... and responsiveness was the goal, right?

Thanks for exploring this and sharing.
.

In response to [ TK ], who wrote in response to my comment "... no, I will not close any one of my 60+ Google Chrome tabs ..." and gracefully ignored the other 1,500+ words in my diatribe:

Yea, I also have noticed non-tab Google programs running, and I toggle them off using free Microsoft SysInternals [ AutoRuns ], though telling free Bitsum [ Process Lasso ] to deny them is a fall-back alternative, kill these:

c:\program files (x86)\google\chrome\application\...[Chrome version number ] ...\elevation_service.exe

c:\program files (x86)\google\update\googleupdate.exe ( 2 instances )

All Chrome-based browsers are now using the elevation service, which I presume is a mini-Process-Lasso tweaker dedicated to boosting the one Chrome program itself - free Microsoft Edge now inserts their own elevation service, for example.

Sadly, I find Google to be Microsoft Jr in their bone-headed resistance to customer-centric programming.

For example, why can't Google Chrome print a web page properly formatted as PDF for paper or later screen review, when free Firefox, and especially free Opera, have figured out so much better style sheets for printing to PDF, Opera even offering to save as one long scrollable PDF page, great for comments web pages, and free [ PrintFriendly. com ] even strips out unrelated web-page-noise and marginalia, and resizes all fonts for consistent reading ( though it strips out comments ! )?

Google Chrome has recently reduced their heavy, overwhelming dominance of memory and CPU, and there are tuning tips and tricks out there, such that my 45+ tabs on an i5 2600 MHz x4 with 8 GB Windows 7 64 Pro seems responsive, even though the tab bar gives up and no longer shows new tabs once they get too small, and the gods forbid Google use 2 rows, apparently.

Remember how sweet was free [ Tab Mix Plus ] for Firefox?

I use Google Chrome mostly for it's superlative spell check ( which still needs improvement ), and it's automatic in-browser page translation, especially useful in chats where each person responds in a different language, and instantly, it's all in the same language.

I switch to ANY other browser whenever Google Chrome offends me.

And I switch to ANY other computer whenever one computer offends me, hence my suggestion to GameFire to license the USER, not the PC, letting us log in wherever we are, which would automatically log us out of other instances - I have a dozen or more computers, doesn't everyone?

- - - - -

On topic, I find Game Fire to be perhaps the most effective "gaming" program at causing the active on-screen program to be responsive, presumably by tilting the balance of CPU and resources attention.

However, the defaults out of the box, so to speak, are interfering ( such as shutting off the computer after 60 minutes ), but playing with the settings is wildly random and almost uncontrollable, no history, no "return to prior settings", no "return to before Game Fire", hence my extended exploration elsewhere and here at #3.

My suggestion for the program to have 4 live panels across the screen - [ System Settings ], [ Program Settings ], [ Settings Results ], [ Performance Results ], so the user can make adjustments and see results altogether on one presentation did not even garner a "thank you" from the programmer.

Perhaps I was too harsh in my lead in getting there, perhaps I will learn to replace "what you did wrong was ..." with "great start, now where this could go is ...".

Did they or you notice I said I was writing this on a computer I reformatted and reinstalled the operating system on because Game Fire crashed it so irredeemably?

Yeah, that's how safe Game Fire is when trying to learn how to master it's settings, with no fall back within Game Fire if things go awry.

A fresh install of Windows 7 64 Pro feels real responsive ... and responsiveness was the goal, right?

Thanks for exploring this and sharing.
.

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Reply | Comment by Peter Blaise – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

In response to [ TK ] exploring how to control invisible tabs in Chrome:

[ Ctrl ][ Tab ] to open the next tab to the right

[ Ctrl ][ Shift ][ Tab ] to open to the next tab to the left

This als works in [ F11 ] full screen mode, by the way, as well as when there are fewer tabs than a full row, too.

Once my fingers are on the keyboard, I do not want to switch to the mouse, and back and forth, I prefer to find keyboard solutions, and keep on typing.

Yes, micro precision mouse pointer alignment clicking is a challenge not to close a tiny tab when trying to open it.

I've tried extensions to play with tab groups and offloading tabs and even Chrome's own settings to no avail, it's just a crappy system, and yes, it could be simply resolved by horizontal scrolling, if not multiple rows, or a vertical column called by a [ >> ] icon marker ... but end users are not Google's customers.

I find Comodo products to be invasive in that they seem to install unrelated background stuff, funny, because they claim to be a "Cybersecurity" specialist.

But we may all use whatever browser works at the moment, my hierarchy is Chrome first, then Firefox, then Opera, and then on down to IE for sticky old-fashioned web pages.

I even "browse" in Adobe Acrobat Pro on occasion, as it lets me click on links and add them to the current presentation as just more pages below the current one in a PDF.

Thanks for exploring this and sharing.
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Reply | Comment by Peter Blaise – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

To [ TK ], trying various ways to get Google Chrome to respect tons of open tabs,

Free [ Tabli ] sounds promising.

I'm also breaking out groups of Chrome browser tabs into separate browser windows, and then I can [ Alt ][ Tab ] between them, and that let's me at least see the full size tabs titles with fewer tabs in each Chrome window.

Also, there are [ chrome :// flags ] to set to tell Chrome browser to not work on background tabs, even to not load page elements not in view, and that reduces Chrome browser's processor load, even if all that also slows down browsing and scrolling one particular web page once I am in a particular tab, but I'm just reading, so loading words I haven't gotten to yet at the bottom of the web page is really not an interference for my reading speed.

The endless list and descriptions of flags show that Google Chrome programmers are working on a ton of different stuff, way deeper and broader than I need, so why have they missed first addressing such comparatively simple stuff, such as a simple, clean, readable, and reliable printing CSS?

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On topic, Game Fire does not seem to be aimed at optimizing the inner workings of specific programs, like Google Chrome, nor optimizing the inner workings of any particular "game", presumably, there are sites dedicated to tweaking any specific game, but on this site, on GOTD today, most of us responding seem to not be gamers, but we just seem to be regular broad-purpose users who want more responsiveness from our existing computers for everything we do.

Game Fire helps accomplish that in 2 ways:

1 - tweaking OS Operating System settings, which anyone can do manually, or with any other Windows tweaker, there are many Windows tweakers, most are free, and they each have their proprietary attitude on what settings produce the most responsiveness, no one agrees on a "perfect" set of configurations,

2 - actively boosting foreground programs while actively suppressing background programs, which, as I initially wrote, is like free Bitsum Process Lasso on steroids.

Once I personally accomplished a sense of controlled discipline over Game Fire, after much struggle, trashing, reformatting, and reinstalling the operating system, I now like it for what it does, and I seem to get greater responsiveness from foreground programs than I get when using any other solution, though I still have free Bitsum Process Lasso running in the background, and I'm comparing their logs, and since I see Process Lasso throttling Game Fire, I'll try Game Fire alone and see if it's even better when it is not throttled by Process Lasso.

The point, if there is one, is that, just as we don't consider Google to be the only controller we can use in Chrome browser, but we also like some [ Extensions ] from other providers ... same with Microsoft Windows, where we also like some enhanced controls from other providers, and Smart PC Utilities Game Fire is definitely in the game there, so to speak.

Nope, my computer bogged down in Chrome with Process Lasso turned off, and only using Game Fire, so I turned Process Lasso back on, and almost instantly got responsiveness back in Chrome.

Every computer is different, and perhaps we also need to first compare benchmarks for our computer to make sure we are getting what we paid for, before trying to supposedly enhance it, such as having the right video drivers, where a video fame rate of 12 can be the result of a bad driver, where the video is capable of supporting a frame of 30 or 40 - Game Fire does not even address whether or not our drivers are appropriate and maximized, doh!

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Back to Chrome, I like free [ Tabli ], it seems to have 2 modes:

- simple ... drop down list of open tabs in all Chrome browser windows, requires no learning,

- customizable ... desktop app outside Chrome browser where we can also mark some tabs together as "remember these and return to them on demand", and "kill tabs no in my remember list", which requires some forethought, and I may not use this feature, but it may be a nice idea for routinized people.

More at [ medium. com/@antonycourtney/taming-tab-hell-with-tabli-83f080e32d17 ]

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Thanks for exploring all this and sharing.
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To [ TK ], trying various ways to get Google Chrome to respect tons of open tabs,

Free [ Tabli ] sounds promising.

I'm also breaking out groups of Chrome browser tabs into separate browser windows, and then I can [ Alt ][ Tab ] between them, and that let's me at least see the full size tabs titles with fewer tabs in each Chrome window.

Also, there are [ chrome :// flags ] to set to tell Chrome browser to not work on background tabs, even to not load page elements not in view, and that reduces Chrome browser's processor load, even if all that also slows down browsing and scrolling one particular web page once I am in a particular tab, but I'm just reading, so loading words I haven't gotten to yet at the bottom of the web page is really not an interference for my reading speed.

The endless list and descriptions of flags show that Google Chrome programmers are working on a ton of different stuff, way deeper and broader than I need, so why have they missed first addressing such comparatively simple stuff, such as a simple, clean, readable, and reliable printing CSS?

- - - - -

On topic, Game Fire does not seem to be aimed at optimizing the inner workings of specific programs, like Google Chrome, nor optimizing the inner workings of any particular "game", presumably, there are sites dedicated to tweaking any specific game, but on this site, on GOTD today, most of us responding seem to not be gamers, but we just seem to be regular broad-purpose users who want more responsiveness from our existing computers for everything we do.

Game Fire helps accomplish that in 2 ways:

1 - tweaking OS Operating System settings, which anyone can do manually, or with any other Windows tweaker, there are many Windows tweakers, most are free, and they each have their proprietary attitude on what settings produce the most responsiveness, no one agrees on a "perfect" set of configurations,

2 - actively boosting foreground programs while actively suppressing background programs, which, as I initially wrote, is like free Bitsum Process Lasso on steroids.

Once I personally accomplished a sense of controlled discipline over Game Fire, after much struggle, trashing, reformatting, and reinstalling the operating system, I now like it for what it does, and I seem to get greater responsiveness from foreground programs than I get when using any other solution, though I still have free Bitsum Process Lasso running in the background, and I'm comparing their logs, and since I see Process Lasso throttling Game Fire, I'll try Game Fire alone and see if it's even better when it is not throttled by Process Lasso.

The point, if there is one, is that, just as we don't consider Google to be the only controller we can use in Chrome browser, but we also like some [ Extensions ] from other providers ... same with Microsoft Windows, where we also like some enhanced controls from other providers, and Smart PC Utilities Game Fire is definitely in the game there, so to speak.

Nope, my computer bogged down in Chrome with Process Lasso turned off, and only using Game Fire, so I turned Process Lasso back on, and almost instantly got responsiveness back in Chrome.

Every computer is different, and perhaps we also need to first compare benchmarks for our computer to make sure we are getting what we paid for, before trying to supposedly enhance it, such as having the right video drivers, where a video fame rate of 12 can be the result of a bad driver, where the video is capable of supporting a frame of 30 or 40 - Game Fire does not even address whether or not our drivers are appropriate and maximized, doh!

- - - - -

Back to Chrome, I like free [ Tabli ], it seems to have 2 modes:

- simple ... drop down list of open tabs in all Chrome browser windows, requires no learning,

- customizable ... desktop app outside Chrome browser where we can also mark some tabs together as "remember these and return to them on demand", and "kill tabs no in my remember list", which requires some forethought, and I may not use this feature, but it may be a nice idea for routinized people.

More at [ medium. com/@antonycourtney/taming-tab-hell-with-tabli-83f080e32d17 ]

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Thanks for exploring all this and sharing.
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Reply | Comment by Peter Blaise – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (0)

i have been using this little program for over a year and paid for the full version and it can help if you system has to much going on it just frees up some system programs that are not needed i love it as it sits in the background until needed then when you finish playing you game/sit restarts them for you

Reply | Comment by nigel – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (-2)

nigel, Thanks Nigel. If you have any ideas or suggestions that would help improve Game Fire, you can send them here:
http://game-fire-2.idea.informer.com/

Reply | Comment by Ahmed – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+2)

These programs won't help with game performance or boosting. If your system needs to disable background apps in order to play better, would be good idea to look at your system, more ram, SSD, CPU/GPU upgrades, etc.

Reply | Comment by Mike – 3 years ago – Did you find this comment useful? yes | no (+31)

Mike, This is the easy solution. To improve performance, upgrade your graphics card, CPU, add more RAM, and eventually you will need a powerful cooling system, however the question is what are the costs? SSD is cheap nowadays however it only helps speedup game loading in contrary a good CPU and GPU will cost you fortune. However despite the high-end hardware, this will not prevent hangs, interruptions, Internet slowdown, and battery draining caused by Windows background services and other third party apps like Windows search indexer, Windows update is downloading and installing updates, Microsoft OneDrive and other apps sync and etc.

So in this case Game Fire Pro wont improve your games performance directly but it will help decrease lags and interruptions and conserve your battery by preventing unnecessary services and processes from consuming your system resources.