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How to force more threads to run a single core application?
Hi everyone. This is my first time posting, so bear with me if I posted in the wrong place, wrong title etc.. I'm running X3: Albion Prelude on my laptop, and performance starts to lag the more I play the game. I'm guessing this is because the game has to keep track of and process more data as the player progresses (for example, when I start a new game, everything is smooth, but when I load an older game, performance is choppy, even when there's not much happening on screen). My CPU is an Intel i7-3610M (4 cores, 8 threads). As far as I know, X3 can only utilize one core at a time; however, when I open task manager to check the performance, it only shows 13% CPU usage most of the time. That's consistent with 1/8th of total CPU, or one thread. My question is, how do I make the "other" thread run the application as well? Also, if disabling hyperthreading would help, how do I do it? The option doesn't show up on the BIOS screen in the startup menu.
Here are the rest of the relevant PC specs:
HP pavilion dv6qe series - I think dv6-7000 but not sure. Whatever the newest one is.
8 GB DDR3 RAM
1 GB Nvidia GT 630m graphics
1 TB 5400 RPM
Win 7 Home Premium 64bit
...that's all I think