… and … 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.
See Settings >> Other >> Advanced Settings >> Edit Game Mode services, process, scheduled tasks, and here “optimize” means “turn off”.
Yet in the Game Module Profile, there are different profiles, and we cannot compare them to each other, and “suspend” means “turn off”, unless we click Advanced, then we’re back at a place where “optimize” means “turn off”.
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, 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, so I tried t on and off, and the [ pagefile.sys ] is still there in [ C:\ ], and the setting in Windows [ Virtual Memory ] is the same either 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 – it looks as if they are using universal programmer’s toolkits, and they are just poorly implemented, 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.
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?
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 in each, some settings are unique to each – follow?
System Diagnostics does not actually diagnose anything, it merely reports ( WMI Windows Management Instrumentation dump ? ).
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.
Some things show information when right-clicked, some things show a menu of things to do when right-clicked, like search the web, look at properties, and some things ignore right clicks altogether – try whatever you think should work, and it might .. and it might not.
The System Optimizer section seems to be independent of the Profiles section, hence my suggestion that they have 4 panels open all the time:
[ 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.
I believe that my prior review above is accurate, so 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 there is no universal reset, no universal defaults, except for R&R Remove and Reinstall the whole program, and start over.
Are we having fun yet?