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[Sparky Jenkins]

Okay so I have a dual core processor and everything shows up normally on My Computer properties and in DxDiag (2 CPUs), but the game is only detecting one of them, which is resulting in lower performance. That was especially noticeable after I installed the Bring Down the Sky DLC. Any idea how I can fix this and force the game to detect and make use of both cores?

Any help or hints would be REALLY appreciated.

Modifié par Sparky Jenkins, 07 septembre 2010 - 03:27 .

[SSV Enterprise]

AFAIK most games up until the past couple years make use of just one core, with developers only recently making games that take advantage of the multiple processor threads dual cores allow.

[Kloreep]

I'm lost on how you know the game is only detecting one of them. The System tab in the Config utility, perhaps?



What are your specs? You should post them.

[Sparky Jenkins]

Yeah, the system tab in the Config Utility shows only 1 core and 1 CPU. I know I have a (old) Pentium IV Processor/2 CPUs.
Windows utilities and properties show the proper count of CPUs and CPU usage, if that makes any difference on this problem.

I'll post the detailed specs when I get back home, I'm currently at work and I don't know them by heart, lol.

I browsed the internet last night and couldn't find anything that's really similar to this, but something that's remotely close suggested that installing XP SP3 would help... I left that to download before I went to work, so I'll try it when I get back home. But I'm not putting too much hope on it to be honest.

EDIT: Responding to SSV, my friend has a dual core and it shows up properly on his Config Utility System tab. But he's running Vista. I'm running XP if that makes any difference. 

Modifié par Sparky Jenkins, 07 septembre 2010 - 09:43 .

[Recnamoken]

Well, Mass Effect is correct. Pentium IV is a single core CPU. It has only one core. However it is able to simulate an additional one with Hyperthreading. That may be where the confusion is from.



There never was a Pentium IV with 2 cores.

[Gorath Alpha]

There are four P4s from the very end. Single core, twin threaded is one, Single Core, single threaded is the original, Pentium P4D model is also a pair. There is twin cored, both single threaded, and twin cored, both hyperthreaded, but the old P4Ds were too late, too slow, too obsolete, by the time they appeared, and even the late P3 Mobile was better.

[Gaidheal]

Gorath is quite correct, there were some late model dual-core P4s but it's likely the OP is confusing Intel's marketing with multiple cores.

[Sparky Jenkins]

I've never been much of a hardware guy, but I understand what you guys are talking about. Thanks a lot for the help. Confusion cleared

[Gaidheal]

Score one for the Internet ;¬)



I always considered their marketing duplicitous, to be honest, not least because "Hyperthreading" can be problematic, even buggy and doesn't perform in at all the same way as another core or CPU.

[Empusas]

Ok I have close to the same problem with my Phenom triple core processor only detecting one core.

I had a game in the past (cant remember) that had this problem and I just had to edit a config program to the proper number of cores and it made a huge difference in the game. I have been looking around for that to try and edit and see if it helps but so far I cannot find it.

I am using Vista Home Premium 64bit sp1, AMD Phenom 8450 Triple-Core 2.10 GHz, 4GB ram.
Once again everything detects all 3 cores and it would really suck to have to scale down the game or have it crash because im only using 1/3 of the processing power.

Modifié par Empusas, 17 septembre 2010 - 09:38 .

[andy0991]

i am suffering the same problem as well i have an AMD Athlon™ II X2 240 Processor is there anyone out there that knows how to resolve this?

[andy0991]

hey up guys i have been on to ea and any of there games will not register and amd dual core prior to a phenom so if you dnt have a phenom they basicly saying cope