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topper4125
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Joined: Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:56 am Posts: 81 Location: Montana
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core bug 2.08
When I installed 2.08, it was in CPU Mode: Dual the computer I have it installed on, however, is a single core Atom Processor:
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Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:54 pm |
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topper4125
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Re: core bug 2.08
In the next couple days I'll be installing it onto a quad core dedicated machine... I'll see how it goes on that system.
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John Pritchett
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Joined: Sun Dec 24, 2000 3:00 am Posts: 3150 Location: USA
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Re: core bug 2.08
I forgot to wire up that text to actually display the number of CPUs/cores.
The bigger issue is why it detected 2 cores. I'm using Win32 apis getProcessAffinityMask, and it returns a bitmask where each bit represents a physical processor or core. Here's what it says:
"A system affinity mask is a bit vector in which each bit represents the processors that are configured into a system."
So for whatever reason, Windows thinks your CPU has more than one core. When you open the task manager performance tab, does it show two CPU usage columns, or just one?
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Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:54 pm |
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Micro
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Joined: Wed Apr 20, 2011 1:19 pm Posts: 2559 Location: Oklahoma City, OK 73170 US
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Re: core bug 2.08
It says 2 threads, which means it is Hyperthreaded. The operating system reports this as two processors.
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Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:57 pm |
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topper4125
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Joined: Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:56 am Posts: 81 Location: Montana
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Re: core bug 2.08
Never noticed that it shows two charts for CPU usage... I usually only look at the apps and process tabs... but I know this is a single core processor: http://ark.intel.com/products/36331Windows bug??
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Tue Sep 06, 2011 12:09 am |
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John Pritchett
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Re: core bug 2.08
No, Micro figured it out. I just need to make my setting more clear as to what it's actually doing. Set it to dual and you'll get the most out of your system.
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Tue Sep 06, 2011 12:21 am |
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Micro
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Re: core bug 2.08
Not a windows bug, as much as it is just a lack of information. A Hyperthreaded processor has two logical processing threads. Dual hyperthreaded quad core processors will show up as 16 processors in windows. Windows displays a processing thread as a processor regardless of weather it is a Hyperthread, Multi-core, or physical processor. If this is being handled at the hardware layer, windows may not even be aware of the difference. Mayby a future version of windows will report actual processors, cores, and threads.
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Last edited by Micro on Tue Sep 06, 2011 12:44 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Tue Sep 06, 2011 12:26 am |
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John Pritchett
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Re: core bug 2.08
I know TWGS isn't aware of a difference ;) I'm going to change this to a simple checkbox that says "Limit processor count", which is grayed and unchecked for 2 or fewer processors detected, but enabled and unchecked by default for 3+ processors detected. Then it isn't confusing if it thinks you have more processors than you have.
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