Hello, I have an i7 920 with HT enabled and using Windows 7 x64 and I'm experiencing some issues with multi-core usage by applications.
A lot of newer games and applications claim that they can utilize at least 2 cores for processing, yet almost all of my applications peak at 13% CPU usage, which indicates that they're only using one core. So far the only applications that have used more than 13% CPU have been CPU stress-testing applications, benchmarking applications and Skyrim (however only after I have explicitly written in the .ini files to use all cores; prior to that it was using only one core). Additionally used 3dsmax for a friend once and it also only used one core, despite selecting in the settings to use multiple cores.
So, what am I missing here? Am I misreading the data? Do I have to do something extra to enable multicore-usage in general?
A lot of newer games and applications claim that they can utilize at least 2 cores for processing, yet almost all of my applications peak at 13% CPU usage, which indicates that they're only using one core. So far the only applications that have used more than 13% CPU have been CPU stress-testing applications, benchmarking applications and Skyrim (however only after I have explicitly written in the .ini files to use all cores; prior to that it was using only one core). Additionally used 3dsmax for a friend once and it also only used one core, despite selecting in the settings to use multiple cores.
So, what am I missing here? Am I misreading the data? Do I have to do something extra to enable multicore-usage in general?