dual core - how to assign core to tasks ?

[TALON1973]

need a little help here please guys .. been stuck with single core goodness for far to long and just upgraded to a nice dual core system.

i remember reading various times that you can assign a single core to do certain tasks as sometimes that programme runs better.

how do you do that ?

ive reinstalled the old game enemy territory and want to make sure one core is doing the job

any help would be appreciated

 

[reflux]

Right click on the process in Task Manager, and click 'Set Affinity'

You shouldn't really need to set it though as Windows is usually very good at allocating cores.

 

[marc2003]

unless you have a specific problem running a certain game/app then just let windows do it's thing. it's far better at managing resources than you are.

 

[TALON1973]

lol ok fair enough... got to say , nice performance boost from my old system ( in sig ) to a dual core 545 with 4 gig of ram. and being able to finally get a blu ray player is a nice little side by-product.. although it is a media centre build lol

 

[TALON1973]

lol and you can tell i havnt delved under the hood in ages .....where the hells tasks manager ? i can find device manager ....lol

 

[El Jimben]

Control + alt + delete

 

[Tefal]

Control + alt + delete

this or right click the task bar >start task manager.

 

[sturmtruppe]

im not sure task manager remembers processor affinity after a reboot, so you'd end up altering it every time you turned on your pc. Probably best just to let windows deal with it.

 

[PaulyD]

If on vista or win 7 the shortcut to the task manager is control + shift + escape

 

[sturmtruppe]

and XP it would seem.