I found that setting the affinity to be all (which I hadn't bothered to try until Reinhard suggested it)
made a huge difference to frame rate, instead of running 100% on one core it spread the load across
all 4 to some extent. I have not yet figured how to set it permanently.
Shame I was dumb enough to not read the required skins link..... It looked like I would be a bit competitive
as I was dipping into the 24s
There's a small program you can use for that: SetAffinity.exe. You simply use it to launch GTL - my shortcut for GTL reads like this: ....\GTL\SetAffinity.exe 1 GTL.exe (The 1 does not mean 'use 1 core', but rather 'use all cores'). I can mail to you if you like.
This one?
http://www.nogripracing.com/details.php?filenr=6329That's a different one I think. May be a smarter solution, if you don't have to use the affinity program each time you start GTL.
Cheers,
Erling
Kurt's link if for XP but I think from correspondence it works OK on Win 7. Which is best for Win 7? Also can it be loaded as part of start up to benefit web browsing etc?
Experience, advice would be appreciated.
Have only tried the one I'm using myself, so can't say if Kurt's is better, or whether it can be used generally at startup. The one I'm using is program specific, as it needs to launch the program in question. You could probably create shortcuts with this included as launcher for all the programs you like. Doubt you would feel much difference, if any with your browser though - I expect it would rarely be able to max out even 1 core.
Also, before using this to launch a specific program, it would be worth checking whether said program needs it at all - if it is already using multiple cores, there's of course no need to launch it with the Affinity program.
Cheers,
Erling