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I have the E8400 wolfdale class intel duo core cpu. I was checking out taskmanager when I noticed the game was only using 50% of my cpu. As far as I know that is equivalent to one core. I checked the options and multi threading was enabled. I disabled it, restarted pcsx2 several times (changing settings on the graphics plugin). I figure that the graphics plugin is as fast as its going to be, but I'd like to run it on 2 cores now... however when I check the box and hit ok the program crashes every time.
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Well, revert it all back to your initial settings.
MTGS does use your 2 cores *the best it can*.
So if your graphic card was slow for example, task manager could be reporting 50% usage.
ZeroGS is not recommended anymore, so maybe you should be trying to get GSdx to work.
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50% is not one core. even more, one core threads are usually 40-45%, because full load are rare. And for pcsx2 the most usual case is (40+80)/2 case cores (it is 60%). Loading between cores is not perfect, so one core is usually underloaded. Try to monitor load of different cores.
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Take gsdx sse4.1 for best result to your cpu.
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>> Emulation speed differs for each game. There will be some you can run fast easily, but others will simply require more powerfull hardware <<.
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If you have the console enabled when you start up pcsx2, it'll have output like:
Features:
Detected MMX
Detected SSE
Detected SSE2
Detected SSE3
Detected SSSE3
Not Detected SSE4.1
Pick the lowest one that's detected.
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(05-28-2009, 06:21 AM)Prodigion Wrote: If you have the console enabled when you start up pcsx2, it'll have output like:
Features:
Detected MMX
Detected SSE
Detected SSE2
Detected SSE3
Detected SSSE3
Not Detected SSE4.1
Pick the lowest one that's detected.
Kinda confused on your post. Do you mean, the lowest one on the list? Or the lowest numerical number?
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