i7 and i5 owners take note!

[arizonachris]

Win 7 is doing something called "core parking" and not utilizing all the cores on your CPU like it should. The fix is here: http://www.overclock.net/t/1250666/winf ... g-our-cpus

(thanks to my friend Greybear for posting this on my tech support site)

[dazzharvey]

Thanks for raising awareness - gonna check it out :)

[dazzharvey]

very handy thank you :)

[JackD]

Thanks Chris, good tip. Should be useful for FSX, probably not RW but we can always hope.

[arizonachris]

Updated the title, I found this also works with the i5 chips!

[dick8299]

On the link you cited it had the following instruction:

Step 1: Go into Task Manager/Resource Monitor and see if any cores are parked, If so then go to step 2.

How do you tell if any of the cores are "parked", what am I looking for?

[up_8677]

Resource Monitor: just search for it in the start menu, and go to the CPU tab. At the right should be graphs of all the cores (virtual or otherwise), and if a core is parked it will say so.


Turning off parking works for any CPU with more than 2 physical cores IIRC.

[xianggang]

I just used that program. I can't get it to work.
In advance, I am using an i7

[xianggang]

Got it!