Have you applied FSX Service Pack 1
(
http://www.fsinsider.com/downloads/P...cePack1.aspx)?
That is supposed to enable dual core useage.
Mike Bernstein
"Mark" <mark_butler@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> 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
> news:im6s83puin5c2d3dmecana0iefbvaofrp6@4ax.com...
>> 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
>