Using 4 cores

[AJI]

This may show up my lack of IT knowledge somewhat..........how do I tell a program to use more than one core of the 4 that are available on my PC ?

[Plotloss]

In task manager you can set a processes affinity via a right click.

[Mr Will]

AJI said:

This may show up my lack of IT knowledge somewhat..........how do I tell a program to use more than one core of the 4 that are available on my PC ?

If a program is not multi-threaded then it cannot use more than one core. What program is it?

[AJI]

Mr Will said:

AJI said:

This may show up my lack of IT knowledge somewhat..........how do I tell a program to use more than one core of the 4 that are available on my PC ?

If a program is not multi-threaded then it cannot use more than one core. What program is it?

AutoCAD 2010

I'm using aerial imagery within drawings on some plan views and sometimes it will take a while to switch views. When I go to Task Manager and look at the 'performance' tab, I see that only one core is using 90+% and the rest are just at idle.

[AJI]

Plotloss said:

In task manager you can set a processes affinity via a right click.

Just checked this and all four tick boxes (for the cores) are ticked.

[Mr Will]

Any use: http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/12/utilize-your-mu...

[SplatSpeed]

Mr Will said:

Any use: http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/12/utilize-your-mu...

Perfect solution!

[AJI]

SplatSpeed said:

Mr Will said:

Any use: http://thecadgeek.com/blog/2007/12/utilize-your-mu...

Perfect solution!

Cheers guys. I've set it to value 3 and it has improved things a bit.