This is being marketed through the pcaviator site. There is a 30 day free trial, but before I download and install it, I am curious as to anyone else who may ahve used it. Does it really work and improve computer and sim performance? Here's the link:http://www.pcaviator.com/shop/viewAProduct.php?pid=520Thanks.Sherm

I've been running it for a couple of days now - sounds like the old ramdrive programs. Their success depends on the computer successfully guessing which files your computer will be using next and loading them into ram. They work well when the computer guesses right. I've seen nothing that would convince me to buy it yet, but I'm giving it the full 30-day trial before I decide. If I then find myself wondering if it is doing anything or not, I won't buy it.Cheers

It looks like a load of bollox to me. The page goes to great lengths to rubbish all other types of "tune up" utilites without explaining exactly why SystemBooster is better.Don't get me wrong, they make a good point that your hard drive is the slowest link in the chain, but the only real way of boosting performance by cacheing scenery data in RAM would require a very large RAM drive which would detract for the memory FS2004 was already using, and would result in more reads & writes of the swap file. This would negate the effects of a ramdrive.

I downloaded and tried it.At first install it didn't seem to make any difference at all. So I went to their site and read further on it and found that I hadn't configured it properly. It opens a configuration utility that allows you to check which folders you want optimized. You can have it optimize all your folders if you want (optimizing folders means optimizing them so that whatever application or program you are using out of that folder will be optimized to run better in windows XP). After configuring it properly and asking it to optimize only my FS9 folder (which was suggested in the instructions at their site, instead of having it optimize all folders on your hardrive which would take up too much processing power), and checking the tool bar at the bottom of the screen to make sure the icon was there and showing it was indeed running properly, I loaded up FS9.To me, if an application does not give me enough noticeable difference that allows me to increase my display settings, then it is really not needed. It becomes just another program taking up processing power. At first I thought it had indeed improved my frame rate in FS9, but as I continued to fly I noticed increased jerkiness in turns and when panning around in spot view. This was with increased settings via the display settings in FS9. So I gradually decreased my settings to see how much of a boost in performance I was getting. I eventually ended up at the same settings I use without system booster. In fact, as I continued to fly I noticed a gradual bogging down of my system when flying into airports to land, flying the pattern, and waiting for the tower to clear me. It got so jerky I uninstalled system booster (which was quick and easy) and my system was back to normal.So if you want to give it a try I'd suggest you do as after I uninstalled it, it did not seem to have any lingering effects. Perhaps it helps w/other things separate from FS9, that I didn't look into.