Free IObit Game Booster Premium! [This week only!]
February 20, 2011 43
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Please note that until Game Booster v2.3 is released you will need to re-enter the registration code after exiting Game Booster. v2.3 should be released this week.
Software Description
Game Booster Premium is developed by IObit. Says their website:
Game Booster Premium is capable of delivering the best gaming experience to you even if you have an old PC. One-click to boost PC performance is not enough, Game Booster Premium also allows you to tweak your system for top PC performance. By temporarily shutting background processes and unnecessary Windows services, cleaning RAM, and intensifying processor performance, Game Booster Premium concentrates every little system resource for gaming only.
Game Booster Premium is compatible with PunkBuster, Cheating-Death, VAC, and any other anti-cheat software.
- Play Games Lag-free:
Using IObit’s latest “Enhanced 3rd parties’ services detection” technology, Game Booster Premium can automatically detect and close more unnecessary background services, thus more system resources after release will be dedicated to responsive game playing and smooth image displaying. What’s more, after tweaking system settings, you PC can run at it top performance, so is your game.- Fast Game Launching and Response:
Game Defrag is another technology in Game Booster Premium that makes game launching faster and game playing more responsive. After defragging the game folder, the game files will be perfected allocated on your disk to allow quickest access and read, so again you are gaming faster!- Keep Your Hardware Drivers Up-to-Date:
PC gamers know how important to install new drivers for modern PC games. Game Booster Premium keeps every game’s specialized drivers up-to-date, including drivers for video/sound cards.
dotTech Advice
Although never reviewed by Ashraf, Game Booster has been featured on dotTech before by guest author Kinetix. The conclusion reached was that Game Booster worked well:
All in all, I believe it to be a very useful program, especially if you have Vista (or XP) as your Operating System and less than satisfactory equipment in your computer rig. Even if your computer is up to snuff, sometimes games are just too much to handle. For example, I have The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on my computer, and I love loading it up with dozens upon dozens of mods. After a while, this can start slowing down the game a bit (especially on Vista). I searched around and found Game Booster, and most of that extra lag caused by the mods went away.
Giveaway Information
Version being given out for free: v2.2
Free updates: unknown
Supported OS: Windows XP+
Download size: 6.6MB
Giveaway time frame: February 21st-27th
With a Facebook account
If you do have a Facebook account, you can simply Share…
…and click the shared link. Then just enter the number from the giveaway page!
Without a Facebook account
Although it is a requirement of the giveaway, some people don’t want to have Facebook accounts. Luckily, there is a workaround for those people.
First, click the Share button on the giveaway page. You can close the login window. Then, right click the giveaway page and click either View Source (Internet Explorer) or View Page Source (Firefox).
Look for the line that says http://facebook.com/sharer.php?u=. Copy everything from the http://db.iobit.com/ to the end quotation mark.
Open a new tab and paste that URL in.
Go back to the first tab and copy and paste the code in.
Installation
When you’ve successfully gotten a license, just install Game Booster like normal. Open up the main window by right clicking on the system tray icon and selecting Open Window.
Click the Upgrade button in the bottom left corner.
When you click Activate Now, your product will be automatically registered.
[Via IObit Press letter]
Thanks, this is wonderful.
I love the program, but dreaded when it went into pay-for-full-use.
I’ve done the above both without facebook account and with, just takes me back to the 3 steps page.
where do i get the ‘unique ID’? yes, i went thru facebook, yes, i shared, yes, i got the link for the free download, but at the bottom where it asks for a unique ID, i have no idea where that is! lol
thanks for anyone’s help!
same here! i thought it was just me not knowing the ID.
I think it is the same code for everyone. Did everyone get
1C8**-*****-*****-**CB9
@Kevin: Yes, I did. ;-)
Hmm..whenever I close the program and open it again, it turns into the normal free version again. Anyone else getting the problem? I even looked at my license.dat file and made sure it changed after I put in my license.
same as Kevin, how can we fix this problem
so..how do i get the code?? thanks!
@Tad: @Zapped Sparky: Interesting. I’ll take a video of the steps for the non-account method.
Also, I want to destroy Windows Live Movie Maker.
Every time I open Game Booster I have to re-enter the code or it will be the free edition. This is annoying as it is, but what happens when the offer is no longer valid? Will I be unable to use gamebooster as premium?
@Tad: Here’s a link to the video I made:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_chKn7DxtrQ
I did my best to hide the codes I received.
Thanks, i’ve not faceboof account and this tip is very usefull. I confirm, it’s the same key for everybody ;o) Best regards
@Lilangel: I actually have no idea. It may just be that IObit released the system prematurely (it’s still the 20th in a lot of the world) and is just waiting for the giveaway to actually start before permanently allowing the code.
Locutus, thank you very much for the help! i went back to facebook and re’liked’ and re’shared’. it finally gave me the Unique ID and from there i got the code.
i did watch your video and it is well done. it should help others who had the same problem as i.
good job! thanks, again!
@Locutus Followed the instructions in the vid and it worked. No idea what I was doing wrong before or why it didn’t work. Cheers.
After enter code & register if close the program this turn unregistered again try many times, this a joke ???
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@Claudio Senna: No, it’s not a joke. It appears to be a bug on someone’s part–whether they haven’t started the giveaway yet (it isn’t time yet in a quarter the world) or what I don’t know, but I’ve contacted IObit.
Uh oh, I having the same “reverts to free version” as everyone else, hehehehehe.
@Zapped Sparky: Ahh, don’t worry–I’m sure it’ll all be sorted out by the 27th.
I’m not sure what happened.
I have the registration code, but no program to install!
Where and how do I get the download?
Hi Everyone,
Sorry for the inconveniece. Yes we have been notified with the license issue, unfortunately it is a bug in the current version. Good news is that this bug is to be fixed very soon in the release of Game Booster v 2.3. SO DO NOT THROW AWAY YOUR LICENSE CODE!
For anyone who doesn’t know the download URL, (it is fixed in the promotion page)
Thank for the share, although I have a premium for v.2.1, a second serial is always good to have.
I have the same problem that Zapped Sparky is having:
I never see a place to enter the code
“I’ve done the above both without facebook account and with, just takes me back to the 3 steps page.”
If everyone is getting the same key, could someone just share it?
do we know if the serial will allow us to update beyond 2.3?