Well, before you launch into that discussion however, shouldn't you determine if indeed core 3 is better than the other cores first? I don't think we have seen any evidence that setting it to core 3 produces a noticeable difference.
Well, before you launch into that discussion however, shouldn't you determine if indeed core 3 is better than the other cores first? I don't think we have seen any evidence that setting it to core 3 produces a noticeable difference.
I don't remember when we changed it, so I don't know if made it into patch 1.2, but we are setting thread affinity in the code, so by 1.3 you shouldn't need to care about this setting anymore.
Assuming it works the same as for Deus Ex, you should be able to go into Task manager -> Processes -> right click on V2.exe -> set affinity -> uncheck everything but one core.
This is for XP, by the way.
Any evidence about how much this improves game speeds?I like the solution I found in the HoI3 forum better:
Open notepad.
Paste in the following:
start /affinity 1 /high v2game.exe
Save inside your V2 main folder with the file ending .cmd. You do this by choosing "save as", then save as file type "all types", then give it the name v2orsomething.cmd.
Then always start the game by opening this file.
Any evidence about how much this improves game speeds?
i will have a new computer a quad core...it means that all my paradox games will run slower than with my old dual core computer? 0_0
Assuming it works the same as for Deus Ex, you should be able to go into Task manager -> Processes -> right click on V2.exe -> set affinity -> uncheck everything but one core.
This is for XP, by the way.
I like the solution I found in the HoI3 forum better:
Open notepad.
Paste in the following:
start /affinity 1 /high v2game.exe
Save inside your V2 main folder with the file ending .cmd. You do this by choosing "save as", then save as file type "all types", then give it the name v2orsomething.cmd.
Then always start the game by opening this file.
This is working indeed. You have to create a text file in your Victoria 2 folder and rename it to something like v2.cmd. Make sure the file extensions are shown or you may see v2.cmd but in reality it's named v2.cmd.txt - this won't work. Then, after double-clicking v2.cmd, V2 should start with high priority on the first processor core (Core 0 in task manager).this doesn't appear to work
This is working indeed. You have to create a text file in your Victoria 2 folder and rename it to something like v2.cmd. Make sure the file extensions are shown or you may see v2.cmd but in reality it's named v2.cmd.txt - this won't work. Then, after double-clicking v2.cmd, V2 should start with high priority on the first processor core (Core 0 in task manager).
On my system, an Athlon II X2, I have set affinity to 2 (runs on the scond core, in task manager Core 1) and left out the high priority setting. V2 feels better and resigning/exit to Desktop is indeed faster.