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    Intel centrino duo second core wont process when installing a program

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ptekevin, May 25, 2008.

  1. ptekevin

    ptekevin Notebook Enthusiast

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    I recently bought F.E.A.R and i was installing it took like 30 minutes...I monitored the performance by pressing control alt delete and by what the graph was telling me the second core of my processor wasn't working and the first core was maxed out... its a centrino duo 1.84 Ghz, I got 3 GB of Ram. Its the first time it did this ..other games do that to now. anything else i do on it the 2 cores process equally only when installing stuff. Can anyone help me out thanks.
     
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  2. jisaac

    jisaac Notebook Deity

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    FEAR is probably not a multi-threaded application/game and so cannot utilize more than 1 core.
     
    jisaac, May 25, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Okay, go into the processes tab
    Then select the process that fear is running.
    Right click that process, than go to the "set Affinity" button
    Click that, and then you will see a window which will allow you to set the game to run as a single core or a multi-core program.
    Just click the box next to CPU 0 and CPU1 and that should force the program to utilize both cores.
    If that does not work, then there is probably a setting within the game.

    K-TRON
     
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  4. N00d13s

    N00d13s is too legit to quit!

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    i installed fear yesterday and it only took me about 15 minutes.
     
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    ptekevin Notebook Enthusiast

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    They were already checked and its not only that game ..its any program i try to install using cd drive i cant even listen to music at the same time i install ..its like my processor is maxed right up and the first core and the second core is just chillin lol
     
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  6. jisaac

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    hmmm... i disagree with k-tron
    the affinity control in task manager is only a sort of 'security setting' that sets permissions for processes to run on different cores. If an application isn't multi-threaded it won't run using both cores even though the Processor affinity setting allows it to be executed on both. imo the affinity setting is only really useful for stopping processes running on a certain core it can't make the application use both cores.
    anyone feel free to correct me!
     
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  7. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    I agree with jisaac. Check if there is a patch that allows multiple cores, I had to get one for Call of Duty 2 for it to use both cores.
     
    Hep!, May 25, 2008
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