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Old Jul 23, 2010, 03:37 AM   #281
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Originally Posted by newtekie1 View Post
Yeah, I know, I'm not blaming you, just clarifying.

I believe, in theory, no core is more real than the other as it appears to Windows. It is just that each physical core can handle 2 threads, so each thread isn't more real than the other. So work sent to each thread is automatically handled by the physical core's scheduler.
game needs/uses two threads worth - and they end up on the one physical core, giving you less performance than if they had two physical cores each. that is my concern.
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