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Old 02-20-2007   #2 (permalink)
Paul Smith


 
 

Re: How come FSX is only using 1 core on a dual core system.......

"mlai" <mlai@community.nospam> wrote in message
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>I am running FSX on my X6800 system and I noticed that one of the cores
>runs at very high utilization (80-100%) and the other is very low (10-20%).
> Seems to me that FSX is not optimzed for multi-threaded operations.
> Anybody noticed the same thing?


Yes, but in my case both cores are at around 50%.

> If so, that's a pretty poor software planning and coding.......


The trouble is going back and re-engineering the existing code from the
previous product is extremely expensive compared with working with what
you've already got an expanding on it.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
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