5 ways to increase gaming performance

Slow PC? Can't handle the awesomeness of newer games? Check out these 5 tips on how YOU can increase your gaming performance!






1. Game booster.
This is a great little program which only requires you to press a button! The way that Game booster works is that when you run this, very small software, it closes windows applications that are running in the background. Things that you really don't need. Not like Internet explorer but more like things that Bill gates put there because he is an evil bastard. 
( You can see these programs if you press control alt delete and the check the processor tab.
You can get gamebooster here.


2. Ready boost.

Ready boost doesn't work at all like Game booster but it is twice as effective.

Your gonna need a 2.0 USB memory stick and a Widows7/Vista computer.

Just insert the USB stick in your computer and I recommend you to clean it first.

After that you'll get a window as usual, but instead of clicking the 'browse folder' click the speed up computer link.
Another window will pop up and click the dedicate this unit for ready boost and then apply. At any time you can go into the properties of your USB stick and click the "Ready Boost" tab. 

3. Laptop cooler

This only works for laptops but it will help you A LOT. Get yourself one of these coolers: 

They are usually pretty cheap but work great! Your laptop will stay cooler and it will also be able to hand a lot more action. It also looks pretty cool! 

4. Close unnecessary programs. 

Open the task manager (ctrl+alt+delete) go into the performance tab, and select "explorer" then close process. What is "explorer" you might ask, well It's basically your file browser and your task-bar. You defiantly do NOT need this when gaming. If you want to open it again do the same thing but instead of closing "explorer" you click on file>start new process>type in "explorer.exe" and it will start. 

5. Clean your fan

Okay so let me tell you a little story, after using my computer for about a year I realized that it had gotten a lot shittier. Games ran at a horrible FPS, It sounded weird and my process ran at constant 60-100%. This was obviously a bad sign and I thought it was just full of crap so I re-installed Windows 7 on it but, no change.

My dad came up with the idea that maybe the fan was full of dust. So we cleaned it and yup, that did the trick! It works just as when It was new, well, actually a little better because I found these ^ awesome ways to make it run even BETTER. 

So I hope these tips will help you out and maybe your CPU will not look like this: 

Thats all, folks!