After releasing version 6.6 for a while, I’ve been monitoring for issues to be fixed in next release. In these times, I received some mixed feelings comments of feedback from free Fidelizer users that need explanation here.
Fidelizer is malicious software because I got backdoor trojan attacks after running Fidelizer in Extremist level so it’s not safe anymore.
Dear gentleman, you’re using cracked version of Windows with cracked software. You’re bounded to get a malware of two by doing that. Fidelizer shutdown non-audio services and that includes Windows Defender and some core services related to security. Fidelizer’s default configuration is set to ‘Workstation’ so it won’t do that without user’s consent and ‘Extremist’ states that it’ll shutdown non-audio services in configuration.
Regardless of some unfortunate users’ circumstances, I shall reconsider that Fidelizer shutting down Windows Defender service in Windows 7 is still unsafe for public. To prevent this crime from repeating again, I decided to keep Windows Defender, Windows Firewall, and related security services from stopping/disabling in all versions of Fidelizer for security reason. It may not be fully extremist anymore but security is indeed important.
I hoped it could be a little more transparent. I’m tweaking Windows Audio Workstations for years ( tweaked registry / priorised stuff / HPET / MMCSS etc. ) and they all behave terrible after “fidelizing”, for a music PRODUCTION DAW this is not very good. But i noticed a “little” difference for overall audioplayback quality.
Dear madam, you’ve been tweaking Windows with default multimedia configuration for years. Fidelizer’s concepts was improving audio performance at its core and decrease non-audio tasks’ performance to reduce negative effects to audio. It raises the resolution of audio tasks with higher thread and task priority, more time slice for feeding resources for audio task, improve kernel resolution timers for low-latency playback, reduce priority of non-audio processes and isolate them to separated processor core. It can never be worsen because Fidelizer is improving audio at its core, not its surroundings.
If we talk in audiophile terms, you fine-tuned your system for $1k CD Transport for years and think this is perfect tune for transport. One day you try $10k SACD Transport in your system and you’re not satisfied because it’s not compatible with your highend power cords, audio cables, isolators, and other accessories used in tuning system. $10k SACD Transport has much wider bandwidth and resolution just like Fidelizer increases your computer’s audio bandwidth and resolution. You need to perform fine-tuning again for better system in higher resolution. At one time I suggested my friend who’s been tweaking Windows audio for a decade like me with one of core Fidelizer’s tweaks and he re-applied all of his tweaks from scratch.
Changelog for version 6.7
Free
-Extremist optimization level will keep Network/User Experience services by default so uncheck them if you want to stop them too
-Optimizing System/Network utilization won’t be applied on Workstation optimization level
-Removed Windows Defender, Windows Firewall, and related services from stopping services list for security reason
-Isolated some system processes from non-audio group that could potentially harm audio performance in default environment
Plus
-Extremist optimization level will keep Network/User Experience services by default so uncheck them if you want to stop them too
-Optimizing System/Network utilization won’t be applied on Workstation optimization level
-Removed Windows Defender, Windows Firewall, and related services from stopping services list for security reason
-Isolated some system processes from non-audio group that could potentially harm audio performance in default environment
Pro
-Fixed startup feature not being removed from task scheduler successfully when choosing not to run on startup
-Fixed uninstallation not reverting disabled services back to system defaults
-Isolated some system processes from non-audio group that could potentially harm audio performance in default environment
-Removed Windows Defender, Windows Firewall, and related services from disabling services list for security reason
I’ve been working on tweaking Windows Audio Workstations over a decade. It’s long enough to develop Fidelizer for years. I studied about audio in system and kernel level long enough to know how to avoid bad tweaks. I can’t understand why people who can tweak system to improve audio often think their tweaks are perfect and ignore to understand how it works or how they don’t work well together. Maybe she can just purchase Fidelizer Pro which will override most of her settings that caused issues and be done with it.
Sorry for my long rambling. I’ve been trying to explain Fidelizer in a way most people can understand so far but somehow I don’t really know if I get that through. I hope you’ll enjoy this release of Fidelizer better than before.
Download: Fidelizer 6.7
Upgrade: Fidelizer Upgrade Program
Fidelizer Plus/Pro users should be received a mail about update and download link by now. If you somehow didn’t receive an update notification as I received some delivery failure message too, please contact me for an update with your customer data to verify.