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Old 02-20-2007   #3 (permalink)
Dustin Harper


 
 

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

According to the ACES team in various FS forums, it does take advantage of
multiple threads. On my system, it uses more like 75%/25%.


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"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
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> "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?

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> Yes, but in my case both cores are at around 50%.
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>> If so, that's a pretty poor software planning and coding.......

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> 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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