General question-GameEX performance

[mesk]

Ok I was wondering the other day when you launch a game is GameEX still running in the background? and if so,wouldnt it cause a decrease in performance? im not talking about emulators I mean PC games.Just trying to figure out if I should even install PC games to run through GameEX.I more then meet the recommended requirements for all new PC games,but games like Mafia 2 are real CPU,& GPU whores and im just wondering if it makes more sense to just not run PC games through GameEX.

Any opinions\personal experiences would be great

[headkaze]

GameEx should use very little to no CPU when it's launched a game. AFAIK all it does is poll input during that time (which should not be noticable at all). It will be using some RAM but nothing should impact the performance. If you want to see hard figures download Process Explorer and take a look. If you do report back what you find.

[mesk]

GameEx should use very little to no CPU when it's launched a game. AFAIK all it does is poll input during that time (which should not be noticable at all). It will be using some RAM but nothing should impact the performance. If you want to see hard figures download Process Explorer and take a look. If you do report back what you find.

thank you Ben,I am going to do what you suggested im also going to use FRAPS to check FPS during games.I will post my results!

[mesk]

HK was right it is like GameEX isnt even running while a game is.

[Sliver X]

HK was right it is like GameEX isnt even running while a game is.

Yeah, GameEx runs really well itself and while running PC games/emulators on my Atom machine, which is basically bottom of the barrel performance for modern hardware: It's pretty much like a multi-core Pentium III with things like SSE3/x64 support.

[Adultery]

Doesn't the Atom also handle video too? Sounded to me like a Dual Core with one core being the processor and the other being the 'video card' if I understood the description.

[simbamame]

WHen playing the sims 3 on a dell P4 3.08ghz machine with 1 GB of RAM and a 256 MB GFX card, its quite jerky when running threw GameEx so have to run outsite of it, havent tried many others as dont really play PC games on that machine as its a cab and its really for retro games, thou minecraft seems ok.

[Adultery]

I rock PC games on my cab all the time. GameExtender runs as well as the game and I haven't had any problems at all.

[Sliver X]

Doesn't the Atom also handle video too? Sounded to me like a Dual Core with one core being the processor and the other being the 'video card' if I understood the description.

No, it has no video hardware. Atoms are usually paired with Intel GPUs or nVidia IONs (The latter for mine). Furthermore, it doesn't even have the hardware to handle Out of Order Execution which is why it's so slow given its relatively decent clock rate.

Even overclocked to 2GHz from 1.6GHz, an Atom 330 is too weak to decode .h264/etc in realtime. Fortunately the ION GPU supports OpenCL/CUDA and can be used to accomplish this.

[AlphaUMi]

In fact I ask myself (and you) if a Lite version has still sense to beeing bundled with GameEx. How many players in these times need to use it? Just a personal opinion, of course.