Using a Game Accelerator - How would it affect the game and PC

Games now a days are so big, that you cannot play those games in some normal PCs. You need to get a faster, high performance PC to get the game well running. There is one more option as it looks like. The game accelerators.

To give you some idea about these game accelerators, DirectX is an tool which allows hardware use with some communication, if a new tool is made to communicate and operate the hardware faster, it can be used as a game accelerator with some additional options. That's how the race goes on. Programming is a source from where you can expect no saturation. Everything can be updated and improved. And no program is perfect.

Why to use? - Game accelerators are of very little use, they are useful for the PCs which are running slower but are capable of playing those games. The games may run slower on the PCs with adequate requirements because of non-optimized operating systems and complex game algorithms and programming methods. In these cases, the game accelerators may help you little bit.

If you are using a PC with inadequate requirements for the game, no matter how many accelerators you use, the game cannot run faster than a particular speed. The game accelerators try to optimize the game and operating system operations and try to speed up the game, but they have a limit to speed up the game. If the game and the operating system have been designed perfectly, then the game accelerators have no effect.

For Example, if you are using Windows 7 Operating system, which is said to have optimized for gaming too, you can see no difference in using Game accelerators in Windows 7. This is how it goes on. If you are a nice teacher, you can improve some student in his score only if he scores less than 100%. If he scores 100%, there is no way you can improve his score.

The practical case of the game accelerators may not so less, but it is definitely minor one. If you want to check it out by yourself, you can test by running it on some slower PC which runs some game slower. The game may still run slower but you can see the difference. That's what is the minor part.

One more notable thing is that, when you are using the game accelerators, they may use the hardware resources out of their limits, this is a different method of speeding up a PC. In this case, the hardware may be subjected to heat and may decrease the life of the circuits and chips on the board. This is a case where you should avoid using the game accelerators.

Still important to note is that, the game accelerators try to access things very deep. So they may change the performance of the PC is a negative way. A bug in the application would make the whole OS crash. take care of these too.