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Game is using 1 core instead of two !!!

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:29 am
by dipu
I have played Crysis Warhead recently. The recent game titles are able to take advantage from Multicore Processors. But I was disappoint that crysis Warhead didnot used the two Cores of my AMD 4800+[2.5GHz X 2=5].
Does anyone has the same problem I have or It is just because AMD ! :cry:

Re: Game is using 1 core instead of two !!!

Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:02 pm
by vicaphit
AMD has a dual core optimizer fix that can be installed, have you installed this?

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Tec ... 06,00.html

Re: Game is using 1 core instead of two !!!

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:43 am
by dipu
I knew it but the driver is old. I am downloading that now let you know when installed.

Re: Game is using 1 core instead of two !!!

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 9:02 am
by DMB2000uk
What graphics card do you have?

Dan

Re: Game is using 1 core instead of two !!!

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 3:41 am
by dipu
What graphics card do you have?
I am using the builtin graphics card.
AMD has a dual core optimizer fix that can be installed, have you installed this?
Yes and that doesnot fixes my problem.

Any help now? :(

May be Dan was upto something.

Re: Game is using 1 core instead of two !!!

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:07 am
by DMB2000uk
Even if you could get the second CPU working with the game, your framerate would still be limited by your graphics card on your motherboard (it's essentially a cut down X700). So in this case (and any other case involving gaming ), you shouldn't worry too much.

Dan

Re: Game is using 1 core instead of two !!!

Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:21 pm
by dipu
So Its about the Builtin graphics? What if I install a graphics card? Will it use the 2 Core ?

Re: Game is using 1 core instead of two !!!

Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:26 am
by largon
Yep, you're not seeing the game using the 2nd core because there's little to use it for.
Onboard graphics -> h u g e GPU bottleneck -> CPU sits around in idle and waits for GPU

Upgrading the GFX would most certainly make the 2nd core busy. That is, if the upgrade card is powerful enough.

For what it's worth, I'm running Warhead everything @ Enthusiast except textures and shadows and the game only uses around 1½ cores of my 3.6GHz Q6600 (quad core).