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Post Sun Sep 23, 2012 8:45 am

Game Only Uses One Processor on Computer

I am not much of a computer buff, but I asked my buddy why the game takes up 100% of just one of my cores on my computer when I have a quad core processor. He said it's because the game is only single threaded instead of multi threaded. Is this the case, and if so can that be changed in anyway? The game runs ok for me, but it would be a lot faster if it was able to utilize more of my processing power. I love this game, can't wait for the complete version to be released, but it would be awesome if I could use all of my computer's potential.

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Post Sun Sep 23, 2012 12:14 pm

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Strange, it should use 2 cores pretty hard and a 3rd one a bit, it is multithreaded
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Post Mon Sep 24, 2012 3:50 am

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I have the same issue. I have an intel i7 3610QM quad core with eight threads and it is only using my second thread at 100% and the seven other ones are unused.
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Post Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:09 am

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Same for me as Water77, I have the i7 3610 QM also, which acts like it has 8 cores with the hyper threading, and it only uses the "second" core, and none of the others. Glad to know it is multi-threaded though :D
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Post Sat Sep 29, 2012 7:15 am

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Same with me i7-2630QM one core is 100% and a second is 30-40%
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Post Sat Sep 29, 2012 3:51 pm

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Does depend what it's doing at the time too, it uses each core for different things.
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Post Sat Mar 02, 2013 12:44 pm

Re: Game Only Uses One Processor on Computer

Same for me, the game use 100% of the "second" core of my i5-2500K, only ~30% of the "third", and almost no others (idle)...

I already tried to close all other programs, but for example, in Battlefield 3, all the cores are used the same (~70%) !
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Post Mon Mar 04, 2013 12:22 pm

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It's the same on my phenom II-965 - 100% usage on core 2 and i guess about 15% altogether across the other 3 cores.
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Post Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:03 pm

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I am running a 2008 Intel Core 2 Duo and well I havent seen anything like this come up but I will look into it
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Post Mon Mar 04, 2013 8:44 pm

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I use this gadget to see the core use : http://addgadgets.com/all_cpu_meter/

And you can run the game in "no-fullscreen"
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Post Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:42 am

Re: Game Only Uses One Processor on Computer

thanks I will take a look and at the load screen where it shows you all that stuff still to come before the main menu my graphics card fans goes bananas can you please fix that so it doesnt kill older graphics cards please Daffy...please please please do that!!
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Post Tue Mar 05, 2013 1:00 am

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Yeah, I don't understand why the graphic card "suffer" on the menus... there is nothing to render, right ?

And it's not gonna kill yours if it has a good ventilation system. Overheating does
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Post Tue Mar 05, 2013 1:36 am

Re: Game Only Uses One Processor on Computer

I have good ventilation in my rig its just weird and well I have 1111MB RAM left because I am using something like 2.9GB RAM for the rest of my pc to run and I have 4GB RAM I am really needing to upgrade soon..
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Post Tue Mar 05, 2013 2:57 am

Re: Game Only Uses One Processor on Computer

Free RAM is wasted RAM ;)
I think it's ok if you have more than ~500Mb left, if it's too low, Windows begin to SWAP (use a file on the hard drive as RAM) and your PC run slower
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Post Tue Mar 05, 2013 3:48 am

Re: Game Only Uses One Processor on Computer

tell me about it man I am usually running with 2.3GB used but I had two Chome web broswers opened with Skype on I am trying to build a new pc with like 32GB ram I just hope I can pay for it you know lol
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