#1 2009-09-21 20:19:20

IdoSC

Member

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 85

Setting Desmume to 1 core, all other programs to another

Hello,
I wonder if there's a way to set Desmume to work on 1 core, and all my other currently-active programs to another, in Core 2 duo, Windows Vista.
I also wonder if it'll be effective to make it work faster. As far as I know, Desmume doesn't support any kind of 2 cores (unless i'm wrong of course), so I suppose it should be faster if I found a way to do it.

Thanks in advance

KazoWAR

Member

Registered: 2009-09-19

Posts: 47

Re: Setting Desmume to 1 core, all other programs to another

Hello,
I wonder if there's a way to set Desmume to work on 1 core, and all my other currently-active programs to another, in Core 2 duo, Windows Vista.
I also wonder if it'll be effective to make it work faster. As far as I know, Desmume doesn't support any kind of 2 cores (unless i'm wrong of course), so I suppose it should be faster if I found a way to do it.

Thanks in advance

open the task manager, go to processes, right click on a process and click on Set Affinity... This lets you choose what cores the process can use.

zeromus

Radical Ninja

Registered: 2009-01-05

Posts: 6,209

Re: Setting Desmume to 1 core, all other programs to another

It wont be effective to make it faster. Don't waste your time trying.

Manivo

Awesome Possum

Registered: 2009-02-15

Posts: 655

Re: Setting Desmume to 1 core, all other programs to another

If you insist though, look up a program called SMP Seesaw which allows you to quickly dedicate a core to a single application.

IdoSC

Member

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 85

Re: Setting Desmume to 1 core, all other programs to another

Hmm, I thought it would be effective cause of the lack of core 2 duo support...

Well, thanks to you guys. I guess that program would be useful for other tasks, and I hope Desmume would support 2 cores in the future.
By the way, Kazo, GG on your translation...helped me a damn lot, thanks XD

zeromus

Radical Ninja

Registered: 2009-01-05

Posts: 6,209

Re: Setting Desmume to 1 core, all other programs to another

Windows is not entirely dumb. If one application is taking as much time as possible, it is going to get almost an entire core. All other processes will be running on the other core. The only time manually meddling with the processor core allocation is going to help is if you have some other app running that is constantly using max cpu, or several other apps that are doing small amounts of work. But the easiest way to get full use of a core is just to shut down all background tasks.

0.9.5 windows build will use 2 cores for some things.