Only 1 core working?
27 January 2008, 07:09 PM
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Only 1 core working?
Troubleshooting why Crysis is a tad laggy and ran cpu-z to find that its only running 1 core. Its been running 2 cores fine since last reinstall of win xp.
http://www.p1f.co.uk/cpuz-1core.jpg
Any ideas how I get the 2nd core working or at least test if its died on me?
Cheers,
Simon
http://www.p1f.co.uk/cpuz-1core.jpg
Any ideas how I get the 2nd core working or at least test if its died on me?
Cheers,
Simon
27 January 2008, 07:15 PM
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Right click on taskbar in windows while crysis is running. right click crysis and set affinity to use all cores, might fix it.
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27 January 2008, 07:26 PM
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All my cores are working just fine 
All one of them
P.S. the affinity suggestion is a good one. If it works the likely issue you will experience is that you will have to do that tweak each and every time you run the game until you find out why it is only using one core. See if it works first, and then look into a more permanent solution if need be
All one of them
P.S. the affinity suggestion is a good one. If it works the likely issue you will experience is that you will have to do that tweak each and every time you run the game until you find out why it is only using one core. See if it works first, and then look into a more permanent solution if need be
27 January 2008, 09:06 PM
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Sorry guys maybe my wording was a bit misleading. Only 1 core is working in Win Xp i.e. via checking with cpu-z or by device manager. So its a general problem not just for Crysis.
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28 January 2008, 12:04 PM
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Partition your drive, or use an old second drive to quickly reinstall windows. There is no need to lose your current OS to do the test. At least after doing this you will know for sure if its hardware or software.
Hmmm, thinking about it, what about a CPU burn in tool that supports multiple cores and also has its own boot disk. That will rule out Windows issues for you nicely. I don't have multi core here, so I have not had the need to find such a tool. There HAS to be something out there that can do this though.
Hmmm, thinking about it, what about a CPU burn in tool that supports multiple cores and also has its own boot disk. That will rule out Windows issues for you nicely. I don't have multi core here, so I have not had the need to find such a tool. There HAS to be something out there that can do this though.
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Troubleshooting why Crysis is a tad laggy and ran cpu-z to find that its only running 1 core. Its been running 2 cores fine since last reinstall of win xp.
http://www.p1f.co.uk/cpuz-1core.jpg
Any ideas how I get the 2nd core working or at least test if its died on me?
Cheers,
Simon
http://www.p1f.co.uk/cpuz-1core.jpg
Any ideas how I get the 2nd core working or at least test if its died on me?
Cheers,
Simon
Have you altered any bios settings?
Press control alt delete at the same time. Press the performance tab, what comes up?
28 January 2008, 10:26 PM
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Your Hadware Abstraction Layer thinks you only have 1 core. Download this program (make sure you run it from the root of c or it won't work), select ACPI Multiprocessor PC and click update.
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ran it from the root of C ??? go to task manager and click the performance tab, are there 1 or 2 graphs for cpu usage history?? This program HAS TO HAS TO HAS run from c:\
29 January 2008, 06:51 PM
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