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jokker   12-14-2003 at 11:07:34 PM

I'm running dual p2 400's and trying to use the machine for gaming. The trouble is that most games I play aren't threaded for dual processors, and they only use one. I was wondering if there was some sort of program out there that could take the load from the game, and send it off to whichever processor has the lightest load. Like a single processor emulator I guess. Has anyone heard of a program that might do the trick?

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psykoikonov   12-14-2003 at 11:59:33 PM
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actually as I recall it uses 50% of each cpu when the app doesn't understand how to use both cpus to the fullest (halves the load between them) and no I never heard of an app to change this.

Psyko

<A HREF="http://forums.btvillarin.com/index.php?showtopic=421" target="_new">Psyko's Puter</A><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by psykoikonov on 12/14/03 06:00 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

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JCLW   12-15-2003 at 12:31:58 AM
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Unfortunately, no.

What motherboard do you have?

*Dual PIII-800 @900 i440BX and Tualeron 1.2 @1.74 i815*

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sjonnie   12-15-2003 at 11:11:39 PM
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Um, that happens automatically in W2K or XP anyway. You can always use TaskManager to associate your game process with a single CPU with realtime priority where it should consume 100% of that CPU, but I doubt it will give you any performance boost.

<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/myanandtech.html?member=114979" target="_new">My PCs</A> :cool:

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jokker   12-15-2003 at 11:31:50 PM
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I thought the game had to be specifically threaded for dual processors? The game in question is half life, so it just sends its instructions out, and win2k takes care of which processor recieves the instruction?

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