From my guad cpu 1 core works at 100%.Please help me.

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As title says,i have an intel 2 extreme qx 6700(2,67 ghz).I recently started to play again combat arms and after some days i downloaded battlefield 4.But because of battlefield 4 i was a bit worried about my temp of my pc so i downloaded hw monitor.Today,i noticed that 1 of my cores(core #1) works at 100%(while playing combat arms) while the other 3 work at like 3-6 %.Combat arms,is a really old fps game (made at 2008) and its recommended settings are really low,so i come at a big surpise when i found out that one my cores work at 100%.After searching it a bit,i found out that older programms work better on less cores.Eventually,i watched a video explaining how to solve this problem(open task bar,right click at the programm,set affinity).But here it comes another problem.After setting affinity at the programm i wanted(combat arms)i wanted to be sure that the affinity had been set up so i right clicked again,set affinity,but an error popped up saying that i couldnt set affinity.Whats happening?Why one of my cores work at 100% load?How to solve the problems?Can the core problem damage my pc?
 
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the program is only written to work on 1 core. not a problem or bug just the way it was meant to run when written.

there is no way to "solve" this since it is not actually an error. newer games are being written to work on multiple cores but there are still many out there that only run on 1 or maybe 2 cores. your system is fine and won't be hurt by the game any. enjoy the fun game time :)

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the program is only written to work on 1 core. not a problem or bug just the way it was meant to run when written.

there is no way to "solve" this since it is not actually an error. newer games are being written to work on multiple cores but there are still many out there that only run on 1 or maybe 2 cores. your system is fine and won't be hurt by the game any. enjoy the fun game time :)
 
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