Phil,
I have an FX-60 dual core system. In Device Manager I show 2 processors and
in task manager I have 2 CPU windows. I am using an ASUS mb with updated
bios and a vista driver for it though.
Mark
"Phil (PM)" <pmitchel(nospam)@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:26:29 +0800, "mlai" <mlai@community.nospam>
> wrote:
>
>>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? If so, that's a pretty poor software planning and
>>coding.......
>
> I tend to remember reading a blog of Phil Taylors from Aces team,
> after the Service pack was released, to go to task manager ( right
> click on task bar) select applications, find FSX.exe ( FSX has to be
> running of course) and change the affiinity to 2 for the cores.
>
> I have not be able to test this myself, as my Vista Ultimate 64bit
> does not reconisge that I have a dual core cpu, even though in device
> manager it listes two cpu's
> But is system details (where the Vista score is, it says I have only
> one core.
>
> I have MS Vista tech support looking into this now, so far 24 hours
> later not heard from them.
>
> I get a feeling from googling, that this is a common problem with
> Vista, but mainly for AMD processsors.
> Anyway else heard of this problem?
> I can't even change the graph from Task manager view performance to
> more than one as there is only one core, but I have swap posts with a
> guy at Dell support foroums who has exactly same DImension PC and
> Intel processor and Vista and he doesn't have a problem, so problem
> must be my installation of Vista??
>
> Hope what I suggested above helps,
> If you go to FLightsim.com and then to their FSX foroum, some of the
> guys there will know what I am talking about.
>
> Cheers
> Phil