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    Fifa 10 only works on 1 core

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Jeet, Apr 30, 2010.

  1. Jeet

    Jeet Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a core i7 and i have noticed that some games like EAs FIFA 2010 only work on 1 core. Is there any way to use multiple cores so the game works smoother.
     
    Jeet, Apr 30, 2010
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    update to the latest patch or set core affinity to whatever number.
     
    ronnieb, Apr 30, 2010
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    Would this also apply to a Q9000 quad? Or just i7?

    By the way, how's Fifa 2010 for PC? I'm still playing 2008.
     
    dune10191, Apr 30, 2010
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  4. Jeet

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    How do you set the core affinity. There are no patches for FIFA 10.

    The game is ok. not much improvement from fifa 09. wait for fifa 2011 in FALL.
     
    Jeet, Apr 30, 2010
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    Fifa 2011 will look almost just like 2010 and 2009. EA has made it very clear they have no desire to add next gen graphics to the pc releases due to quality and performance issues. Therefore they look close to the same with minor tweaks here and there. 2008 had huge known issues with vista 64 and win7. I would select 2009 or 2010. The major issue with FIFA series is the database issues. BW, StevenX
     
    stevenxowens792, Apr 30, 2010
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    The game has to be coded and made for multicore support.. If there isn't any, then too bad :-(
     
    Kocane, Apr 30, 2010
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    It is probably not the game, it is your Turbo Boost. Even if you force Core affinity, it will probably not make any difference.
     
    LaptopNut, Apr 30, 2010
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    You should pretty much never use any kind of core affinity. The OS is better at scheduling that stuff than you are. It can take into account cache locations of memory and such whereas you can't, so setting core affinity can actually cause a slowdown rather than speeding things up. Core affinity was a decent idea back in XP land, but anything since then is much smarter about multiprocessing.

    What you're running into is the entire reason for Turbo Boost. Many applications are badly programmed and designed (I'm looking at you, EA), and are very much single-threaded. There's nothing you can do to change that, so you will only see one core loaded down, and the others doing very little. It will take a complete redesign from the software company, AKA, you just need to buy the latest version and hope that it's multithreaded.
     
    Pitabred, Apr 30, 2010
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    As long as it works smoothly using only one core, there's no real reason to complain.
     
    Syberia, May 1, 2010
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