- Dec 8, 2011
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Hullo peoples. Got a possibly complicated question. ONWARDS!
I was doing more research into Intel's anti-competitive compiler, and a while ago I found that the CPUID is checked, and if the CPUID is GenuineIntel, the fastest instruction sets are used. Otherwise, the slowest are used.
Now, Intel has got themselves in quite a few games; Skyrim being one that uses Havok. I'm curious to know if masking the CPUID to GenuineIntel, in a virtual machine, will yield better framerates and the like when the CPUID is not masked; the default AuthenticAMD.
Reason for asking, is I'll be doing a reinstall soon, and I want to squeeze as much CPU performance out of my Phenom II x4, especially in older games such as Fallout 3 and Oblivion; which utilize Intel's old compiler that generates 386 code for non-intel CPUs, for Havok at least.
If someone could test that, I'd be most grateful.
I was doing more research into Intel's anti-competitive compiler, and a while ago I found that the CPUID is checked, and if the CPUID is GenuineIntel, the fastest instruction sets are used. Otherwise, the slowest are used.
Now, Intel has got themselves in quite a few games; Skyrim being one that uses Havok. I'm curious to know if masking the CPUID to GenuineIntel, in a virtual machine, will yield better framerates and the like when the CPUID is not masked; the default AuthenticAMD.
Reason for asking, is I'll be doing a reinstall soon, and I want to squeeze as much CPU performance out of my Phenom II x4, especially in older games such as Fallout 3 and Oblivion; which utilize Intel's old compiler that generates 386 code for non-intel CPUs, for Havok at least.
If someone could test that, I'd be most grateful.
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