You should be able to set it for each program.
With a program running bring up task manager.
select processes,
find the item you want to play with,
right click on item,
you will see a choice of setting priority or affinity,
selecting this will bring up a small menu that you will understand,
each core will be listed with check boxes, default it both checked,
For people looking at new systems
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You can test this by running your system the way you normally do.
Play a game for a bit with taskmanager running in the background.
Go to the performance tab and check. If a core is running at 100%
Splitting the load could help. If there not maxing out it wont help.
Play a game for a bit with taskmanager running in the background.
Go to the performance tab and check. If a core is running at 100%
Splitting the load could help. If there not maxing out it wont help.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Emerson
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Damnidge your slow down is more than likely due to hard drive activity than it is CPU. Windows XP does a decent job of spreading the tasks among CPU cores. You really only want to assign core affinity when you have a process that doesn't like multi-cores. Harddrives on the other hand will cause a slow down when you are writing and reading more than one thing at a time. I have a couple of Core2Duos and a couple of AMD X2s that run UT without assigning core affinity.
Thanks for the info guys.
I only have a duo on my work laptop. I actually just played around with it, and set windows media player, itunes, windows live messenger, and a few other entertainment ones to the 2nd core. The rest I set to the first core.
I have already noticed an improvement. Before when i switched between my gradebook and the internet back and forth it could lag video, and rarely my music. Now, it doesn't happen at all.
Cheers
I only have a duo on my work laptop. I actually just played around with it, and set windows media player, itunes, windows live messenger, and a few other entertainment ones to the 2nd core. The rest I set to the first core.
I have already noticed an improvement. Before when i switched between my gradebook and the internet back and forth it could lag video, and rarely my music. Now, it doesn't happen at all.
Cheers
Cheers, Damnidge