Quad core processor only running on one core.

[tmichie19]

I'm having an issue with my CPU. It seems that it is only using one of its cores. This issue first became apparent to me when I was trying to run Blacklight Retribution. It popped up a warning message saying that my computer does not meet the minimum requirements of have at least a dual core. And indeed the game was unplayable, with single digit fps constantly.

However when i go to the performance tab of my task manager it shows 4 graphs, meaning that 4 cores must be running. Then I go the boot tab of my systems configuration, click on advanced options and underneath the "Number of Processors:" check box (which is unchecked), it shows 1 as the number of processors.

My processor is an Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.6GHz.

These seem to be conflicting and I'm not sure what to do. Please help me.

 

[Sardonicus]

This will answer it for you........
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/66504-processors-limit-number-used-windows-7-a.html

 

[tmichie19]

Unfortunately this doesn't help me. As I said before the "number of processors" checkbox was already unchecked, and checking it and changing the value below is only useful for testing purposes.