problem ON Q6600 IN SIMS 3 ONLY 1 processor in use!!!

[PINI.D]

so when ן play SIMS 3 I SEE that only 1 processor in use look:

please halp
many thanks

[ibleet]

Hello and welcome to LR! Please take a moment to register and introduce yourself.

Let me keep this real general until someone more qualified can answer...

1 - Not all games are set up to utilize multiple cores. I'm not sure about the Sims game that you have, but I am pretty sure that most of the newer games are multi-threaded.

If I recall correctly, a lot of people had issue with Sims 2 running slow and laggy and that was because it did NOT support more than a single core.

2 - Check the affinity in the task manager to see how many cores are being utilized by the application.

[PINI.D]

OK,SO first at all Thank you for your answering!
and Hello everyone my name ist 'pini.d' and i'm happy to jonig this nice Forum .
for your answers:
1:sims 3 out in this year [2009] still could be not support in multiple cores? ist slightly stupid no?
and 2:i did,look in the picture:up its the 4 processors.and down ist the ram memory.
http://up141.siz.co.il/up2/d3mmf1mtkztm.bmp
ist in Hebrew but ist still a picture,haha.
bottom line:is it something that i can do?
10x ibleet.

[ibleet]

Well from everything I've read, Sims 3 does include support for multiple cores.

Why your system is only utilizing a single core is anyone's guess.

Open Windows task manager (ctrl-alt-delete). In the applications tab, right-click your game and select "go to process". Right click the process and select "Set Affinity". See if all 4 cores are checked.

Other than that, you may want to head over to the Sims 3 website / forum and ask there for support. Good Luck.