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    Games only using single core in games - Help!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Oemenia, Jan 7, 2016.

  1. Oemenia

    Oemenia Notebook Evangelist

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    Most games I play on my system are only using a single core. This is not good because not only do the other 3 cores are unused, but the the single core boosts itself and heats up the whole system.

    My most recent games are Fallout 3 and Skyrim and it's an issue in both. Unless I cap the speed to 1.5-2ghz, only then do the other cores kick in.

    What can I do?
     
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    If the game isn't multi-threaded then more cores won't help. You're better off overclocking. But google those two with multithreading and both require a mod/edit to properly run multithreaded.
     
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    What HT said.
    In fact all the pre-directx 12 games do not support multi core processors properly expect some that use it for stuff like physics e.t.c.

    Note: In fallout 4 there are console commands to toggle multithreading, but I dont think they will work in Fallout 3 or Skyrim.
     
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