Gaming/Gamers

Sorry, I never heard of such a download. Who told you about it or where did you read about it?

Microsoft does have forums, just like we have. But no free chat. And with such a vague question, it would be unlikely their chat persons would know, I think.

Kees

My regular email from PCMech gave the download link. Can't remember the size of the download, but it was BIG. Unfortunately, being busy for the December festive season, I multitasked while theis freeware was downloading, and so lost the download. Have tried to find the answer on PCMech, but without success.

Deservedly so, some might say: I am too stingy to join PCMech when so much infomation is available free. If I joined, no doubt PCMech would try to help me.

In resposnse to other kind contributpors to this thread, my HP TouchSmart 300 PC is geared for gaming.

You get emails from PCMech and one of the emails in December had a link or information about this software.

If this is a monthly Newsletter from PCMech why not visit their site and look for the Newsletters. They may post them online. It's a common thing to do, for example CNET Newsletters are all available online. I can view my own email provided CNET Newsletters online as in the example below;
http://nls.cnet.com/pageservices/viewOnlineNewsletter.sc?list_id=e404&send_date=01/18/2012

So perhaps PCMech does the same? In fact they have an Archive of Newsetters.

If you can't find December 2011's version there, try their forums, http://www.pcmech.com/forum/

Mark

Thanks indeed, Mark - have started to seardch PCMech archives. No success yet after brief try suspended because the lateness of the Eurohour. My previous searches of the PCMech site had missed the convenient archive feature - because |I must be a dope

not a dope at all. It was well hidden!

If you can't find Dec 2011's edition there, (they don't make it easy do they), ask around in their forums.

Good luck.

Mark

and to help others, here's the lilnk to it;
http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6138_102-552502/supersonic-pc/?messageId=5256902&tag=rb_content;contentBody#message5256902

I will say now that Microsoft does not do software other than Windows OS and updates, so there is no 'software' application that they provide that will do what you want.

They may have "Fixes" that attempt to fix Windows problems, but these are specific to whatever the problems are.

You may be thinking of "Optimizer" software from non-Microsoft providers to improve performance, but we rarely recommend any of those, if ever, because of the problems they can cause.

As to computers for gaming, they are hardware based, not software. You need the right hardware for gaming computers, speed of processors, sufficient RAM, fast video cards, in particular the Architecture of the computer, not the OS. A generic and cheap laptop for example will not do well with today's graphic intensive games, but my Alienware Area 51 ALX Desktop will.

So, not the answer you want from me, but you are welcome to hang around and see what others say.

Mark

is some BIOS (MB or GPU) updates and video card driver updates. These tend to be hardware focused and not OS. I don't do gaming but I do update hardware. Prior to downloading updates, I check to see if any of the new fixes will be to my advantage. Thus, if it's only to improve gaming performance, I don't bother with them. But such is how I know these things exist.