force a program to use only 1 core,how can i do?

drugo · 13 Jun 2010

Hi
how can i do to force a program to use only 1 core ?

i know i can do it with task manager ,but it's boring run the program and go in the task manager and click on the program and set only 1 core

is there a way to force w7 to let a program use only 1 core?

thanks

zigzag3143 · 13 Jun 2010

drugo said:

Hi
how can i do to force a program to use only 1 core ?

i know i can do it with task manager ,but it's boring run the program and go in the task manager and click on the program and set only 1 core

is there a way to force w7 to let a program use only 1 core?

thanks

Drugo

There are two ways. First when the software is developed it can be written that way and second using Program manager. why would you want to use only one core any way? windows is much more efficient when run equality on all cores.

Ken

drugo · 13 Jun 2010

zigzag3143 said:

drugo said:

Hi
how can i do to force a program to use only 1 core ?

i know i can do it with task manager ,but it's boring run the program and go in the task manager and click on the program and set only 1 core

is there a way to force w7 to let a program use only 1 core?

thanks

Drugo

There are two ways. First when the software is developed it can be written that way and second using Program manager. why would you want to use only one core any way? windows is much more efficient when run equality on all cores.

Ken

because i encoded a video file , and the encoder overload my cpu , it pushes to 100% all my 4 cpu

Bill2 · 13 Jun 2010

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Masolution: How to Disable Multicore feature?

madtownidiot · 13 Jun 2010

find the process in task manager, right click on it, select set affinity, choose which core you want it to use.. only way I know how, though I'm baffled as to why you would want to do that.

Processor Affinity - Set for Applications

and

Processor Affinity - Add Set Affinity to Context Menu

dlmax63 · 08 Sep 2010

I had the same need (in my case for Nero Vision 9). The program would crash about half the time unless I restricted it to one core. What I did was to change the target command to force a single core whenever I would run the program.

Go to the program location and right click on it, then choose "properties". In the "Target" field, add

"C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start "" /affinity 2 "

(omit the quotes) in front of what is already there for the program. Your original target will have quotes around it already,... leave them there.

Note: I want to use CPU 1, so I specified "2". You may specify which CPU to use by substituting for the 2
1 = use CPU 0
2 = use CPU 1
3 = use CPU 1 and 0

My system is a Core 2 duo and it works like a charm. There are probably other affinity codes for those of you with more cores, but I'd only be guessing at what they are.

force a program to use only 1 core,how can i do?

force a program to use only 1 core,how can i do?

Yes, you can specify the affinity