Game booster apps (Razer Cortex etc.)
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What it does
All-in-one 'booster' apps that promise FPS by closing background apps and 'optimizing' RAM or CPU when a game launches.
The honest verdict
The one real thing they do — closing background apps — is free to do yourself, and Windows already deprioritizes background work while a game has focus. The 'RAM optimization' half is the standby-purge placebo, and the booster itself stays resident, sometimes with its own overlay on top. On a healthy rig there's nothing measurable left for it to add.
How Compy treats it
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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