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Title: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: Tigger29 on July 09, 2010, 11:31:04 AM
No matter what I do, it only uses two:

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Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: Spikes on July 09, 2010, 12:00:04 PM
The game architecture only allows the use of two.
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: Tac on July 09, 2010, 12:08:15 PM
you need to open a new AH account per every 2 cores you got...


be your own bombing raid.  :D :devil
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: curry1 on July 09, 2010, 01:13:57 PM
how many cores do you have?
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: Masherbrum on July 09, 2010, 01:16:00 PM
how many cores do you have?

I'm going out on a limb and by the 6GB of RAM indicated................a Quad Core.
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: Dragon on July 09, 2010, 01:27:15 PM

Gremlins
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: 68ZooM on July 09, 2010, 03:44:39 PM
i'm curious as to why theres 48 graphs in the CPU usage history, i have a quad core and only show 1 graph per core, or under view i can change it to just 1 graph for all 4 Cpu's, click the view, scroll down till you see CPU History click that and you'll have graph options, mine was like i said either 1 graph per core or 1 graph for all 4 cores ..... edit... i am using XP pro 64
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: Spikes on July 09, 2010, 03:49:40 PM
i'm curious as to why theres 48 graphs in the CPU usage history, i have a quad core and only show 1 graph per core, or under view i can change it to just 1 graph for all 4 Cpu's, click the view, scroll down till you see CPU History click that and you'll have graph options, mine was like i said either 1 graph per core or 1 graph for all 4 cores ..... edit... i am using XP pro 64
I looked into this too...and ditto.
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: RTHolmes on July 09, 2010, 03:51:12 PM
easy, pay them to hire a bunch of very expensive codemonkeys to recode it to use all your cores. just for you :aok


PS why are you guys assuming that PCs can only use a single quad core processor? :headscratch:
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: Skuzzy on July 09, 2010, 04:14:29 PM
The short answer is Aces High uses all the cores it can use.  To use any more would not have any benefit at all.
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: Buzzard7 on July 09, 2010, 10:46:57 PM
That looks like a few too many cores. My quad i7 only shows 8 cores in Windows7 64 bit with Hyper-threading enabled. AH runs well on two of the cores. The only thing that has used all eight logical cores is DVD video editing software. Makes a 2 hour job run in about 45 minutes.
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: RTHolmes on July 10, 2010, 04:28:37 AM
4 socket G34 board
12 core Opteron 6000 series processors
= 48 cores


edit: btw 16 core Opterons will be out later this year iirc, so 64 core systems will be possible :D
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: gyrene81 on July 10, 2010, 01:40:50 PM
I'm going out on a limb and by the 6GB of RAM indicated................a Quad Core.
:huh  :headscratch: Wait, so I need a Quad core cpu to run more than 4GB of RAM? I guess I better not put more in since I only have 2 cores.
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: Buzzard7 on July 10, 2010, 02:48:26 PM
No you need an OS that is capable of addressing 4Gb or more ram. I think 64 bit OS is the only ones doing that now.
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: BoilerDown on July 10, 2010, 03:32:19 PM
I was gunna say... this is a "look how many cores I have" thread rather than a "how do I get AH to run better" thread.
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: RTHolmes on July 10, 2010, 03:36:40 PM
yup.
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: Kev367th on July 10, 2010, 04:17:34 PM
No you need an OS that is capable of addressing 4Gb or more ram. I think 64 bit OS is the only ones doing that now.

Err no.
Windows 2003 (32 bit) can address more than 4Gb.

4Gb is nothing to do with 32/64 bit.
It's everything to do with an artificial limit imposed by Microsoft after which you require a 64 bit OR server Operating System.
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: Die Hard on July 10, 2010, 06:27:35 PM
It is a very real limitation. The range of integer values that can be stored in 32 bits is 0 through 4,294,967,295. However a 32 bit system can typically not use the whole address space for RAM as it also needs to use it for video memory, BIOS and other functions. A 32 bit system typically can address about 3 gigs of RAM.
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: Skuzzy on July 10, 2010, 06:36:46 PM
Kev is referencing the poor/substandard use of PAE (Physical Address Extension) in all Microsoft operating systems.  PAE allows a 32 bit OS to address up to 64GB of physical RAM.
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: RTHolmes on July 10, 2010, 06:43:49 PM
... and if it can its using a 36bit processor like pentiums. not true 36bit, but a 32bit processor with some onchip jiggerypokery I dont understand to create a ?virtual/emulated 36bit processor. which is why each individual program can only access 4GB at the same time. my head hurts :uhoh

thankfully we're on 64bit processors and OSes now so we dont have to worry about it anymore :aok
Title: Re: OK.. how do I enable AH to use all of my cores?
Post by: 68Wooley on July 10, 2010, 07:27:50 PM
I was gunna say... this is a "look how many cores I have" thread rather than a "how do I get AH to run better" thread.


Cores are the new MHz in terms of meaningless measures of system performance.