THG - Setting Dual Core Processor Affinity

[Jon]

A nice little application that includes manually setting a processor's affinity as opposed to going into the process manager and setting it, but the real beauty of it is the 'rules' tab thats included - allows automatic processor affinity whenever a certain program is run.

Useful for old games that aren't familiar with Dual Core technology, i.e Deus Ex, Unreal Tournament.

A nice alternative to AMD's Dual Core Optimizer, and also allows you to push your dual core's to the limit.

[Kaiden]

Somewhat relevant:

Also set it to only run one a single core, so it's not using both cores, as this messes it up. Right click it's process in Task Manager, click Set affinity -> Set to #1 core.

If Kaiden's method works, I could give you a work around. (so that you don't have to set it every time you start up DX)

What exactly is this work around? I'm writting a guide on using DX with Vista and it could help

It's simply an executable which makes the makes the executable always boot on one core. I attached it to this PM, if everything went right

Usage: You put it in the directory of the game executable
(like C:\Deusex\System\)

Then go to that specific directory in cmd and type the following:

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imagecfg -a 0x1 deusex.exe

This works for all games and to simply make it work for other games, you obviously just put it in the game's directory change the command to "imagecfg -a 0x1 WhateverGameExecutableIsNamed.exe"

Don't have the time to properly explain it in full detail at the moment, so if anything is unclear, just ask.

http://www.dxalpha.com/forum/download.php?id=4550

Dunno if it's the same file or not..

[Jon]

No its not, Imagecfg is an exec that edits system files, and doesn't always work on some programs i.e. Counter-Strike: Source. With this option, no need to edit any system files at all because affinities are set 'manually' by the program.

[Shinobi]

Bumpathon.

Using a Core i7 950. Would I set affinity to just one core, e.g. CPU 0?

And I'm hosting dedicated AND playing on same machine. What would I do for best performance (especially for server)