Is there any way to force games to use all 8 cores for games?
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geofelt
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Short answer: no.
Longer answer:
Game developers must design the structure of a game so that several independent tasks can run concurrently, and synchronize at some point.
This is relatively easy to do with two tasks. Once you go to many tasks, it becomes much harder. That is why most games can use only 2-3 threads. Developers will not go to this effort if it is not necessary. They want the largest possible audience for their games and will not willingly develop games that need many tasks to run properly.
Longer answer:
Game developers must design the structure of a game so that several independent tasks can run concurrently, and synchronize at some point.
This is relatively easy to do with two tasks. Once you go to many tasks, it becomes much harder. That is why most games can use only 2-3 threads. Developers will not go to this effort if it is not necessary. They want the largest possible audience for their games and will not willingly develop games that need many tasks to run properly.
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You'd have to unpark your CPU to get Windows to use more cores to complete a task. Even then, getting your CPU unparked to use all cores is risky; there's a chance the game and some other tasks in Windows designed to use a certain number of cores may not be too submissive to being forced to use more. This could cause random app crashing, Windows crashing, and even file corruption. So if you do unpark it, be careful. Do your homework.
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