Cores affinity in Total war games

Hey,

I was tweaking my pc and ran on to "problem" where Shogun 2 and Rome 2 uses mainly core0 leaving rest of the cores 1, 2 and 3 untouched. This causes some performance drop, as far as I know something about computers. (And what I have seen in screen).

Found this solution where you uncheck core0 and then the game shares workload across the cores. But I found that when I uncheck at least one core and check them again it will start to use all cores. Not just one or three, but all of my four cores are under work.

Just wondering now if this is only in my head and I'm making this up or does this really help? I do notice performance boost though. And HWMonitor and Speedfan shows that work is evenly shared between cores.

So now if I want to have better performance I need to do this every time when I start the game, which could be in long run pretty frustrating. Not that it is big deal, but if I do this in task manager without checking cores usage could turn me easily crazy, because I need to know it is sharing the workload between cores. To be able to focus fully on gaming. In reality if I think I need to spend less than 1 minute to get better performance ain't that bad.

"Yes, in any case" my question is am I just crazy or is this real deal? And secondly no matter if I have settings low or ultra I get weird lag in units movements when I have MASSIVE battles, I'm fine with that since my computer ain't the best, but it's just feels odd when pc isn't using maximum power, assuming that " maximum" is reached when utilizations in cpu and gpu hits 100%. Correct or incorrect?

Will keep tweaking settings and do some more google searches. Every comments are road to the success much appreciate if you have something to say, assuming it's related even loosely to topic. Thanks!

And my setup is:
860k 3.7GHz turboing 4GHz
GTX 950
8 gb ram

This is more like deep thinking than anything else... I guess.

PS. I had some fun with edit tools...

Just badly optimized game?
Maybe just me, but disabling turbo boost it stop "micro stuttering". Of course when you hit the cap 8* 3840 unit battle it was pretty much same as it was with turbo less than half units.

 

First the GTX950 should be at least GTX970OC and if also SLI to handle those games will improve performance. Some games will use one or duo or more depending on how they are written to use the CPU cores. And some work better on 2 cores or 1 cores. And your stating when Ultra the system bogs down is GPU is being pushed to much and can't handle gameplay this is where a 970OC or 970OC SLI will help. But that is up to you to choose. GTX950 is not sufficient for what your doing.

 

Hmm, just wondering did you even read my topic?

 

have you had a look on pcgamingwiki for a fix?
those types of games are very CPU limited & i believe those older ones are not supposed to support more than one CPU core so if you can fix it buy doing what you say above id stick with it