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    Disabling cpu core

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by gamadaya, Apr 19, 2009.

  1. gamadaya

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    I felt like playing Morrowind recently, for the first time in over a year, so I installed it on my 7811. Runs much better than on my old computer, but its framerate can still drop into the low teens at times (don't know why, could be literally dozens of reasons with a Bethesda game). I had the idea to disable a core, which helped a lot of people with Fallout 3, to see if that might eliminate these random framerate drops. But I sort of forgot how to disable cores. Can somebody tell me? I'm not sure if it will even help, but nobody on the Bethesda forums seems to know, so it'll be a good experiment if anything.
     
    gamadaya, Apr 19, 2009
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  2. madmook

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    Bring up Windows Task Manager, right click on the program in the Processes list, Set Affinity...
     
    madmook, Apr 19, 2009
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    Hey, that's an even better way! Nice one thanks.
     
    gamadaya, Apr 19, 2009
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    In case anyone wants the "hard way" the easy way to do it the hard way is run -> msconfig, pick the boot.ini tab, advanced, /numproc=1, at least on XP, I forget if its the same on Vista...
     
    Big Mike, Apr 20, 2009
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    Won't work in Vista. Vista has a shadow boot file that can only be edited with bcdedit. Task Manager and set Affinity or go to mscinfig (start menu>>'msconfig'), go to 'boot' tab, go to 'advanced options' and 'number of processors', set that to 1. I think that might work if you wanna do it off the boot, its a debug mode, but I prefer set affinity. I know my friends old notebook with a Core Duo let him set it in the bios.
     
    RangerXML, Apr 21, 2009
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    You pretty much repeated what I said, lol, I didn't say edit boot.ini I said use MSCONFIG under the boot.ini tab (which is just the boot tab in Vista).
     
    Big Mike, Apr 21, 2009
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    lol, oops.
     
    RangerXML, Apr 21, 2009
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