Indeed. I’ve gathered that from earlier articles I read. And my testing with doing it on my wife’s laptop (with HT) seems to validate that there is some usefulness there - which is why I want to throw in the option in the tool for people to be able to disable “every other”. Should help with some HT/SMT cases where the Core0 toggle method isn’t working.
Thanks for the link. Interesting stuff. And yea, the past year plus there’s been alot of hubbub around the CPU security flaws going way back apparently. Crazy stuff.
@powbam would you consider an option that shuts off cpu0, then when it is re enabled disable the odd number CPUs. I would be interested to see what happens on mine in that scenario
Yeah I could just have it do that by default. I’ll adjust the last custom one I gave you yesterday on Discord and give you a download here in a little bit. That’ll be quickest. To do it for all CPU scenarios is going to take me a little bit longer
Edit… @Valinov - Here ya go. This will do that for 8core 16thread CPU’s
[removed download - new one in post below]
Ctrl+Alt+[ to disable every other core starting with CPU1 Ctrl+Alt+] to disable every other core starting with CPU0
You’ll get a beep after doing the hotkey to signify it switched off Core0, 8 seconds later another beep to signify switching off every other core.
Correct you were - I had been still using Glockens original versions and using those instead uncovered a flaw in my Menu Switcher that @StrUktO had previously noticed and at the time I thought it was something he had been doing wrong and not the program Sorry about that Strukto - the program defaulting to the Vanilla button on program start is now fixed! The reason it wasn’t happening for me is because my Glocken files were different to yours (and presumably most everyone else who downloaded her revised ones).
actually the problem didn’t occur for me after reinstalling like you said, so I was still under the assumption that I had clicked the buttons too much…
glad to see that it has been fixed!
Interesting. Once I redownloaded Glocken’s “newer” files Vanilla defaulting started happening to me. Perhaps you too had/have Glocken’s older files and your issue was indeed related to the “click too much” issue. Does your AoM have FG fire/flames on it? If so, that’s the older version and she modified it after that point.
Either way, you might still want the new Menu Switcher since I updated the program for it (and Glocken’s modified files) Or if you do have both older ones I guess you could keep right on using them if you like as well.
Hi Powbam! Someone at the Grim Dawn discord channel referred me to you in regards to an issue I have. So the scenario goes like this: I launch the game and everything is fine when you are at the menu screen. But when you launch your game after choosing your character, the sound disappears and the FPS begins to “stutter” like crazy. I checked the solution that you provided and attempted to try it, and what is interesting is after disabling Core 0 temporarily, the resources just instead moves on to another random Core and stays there until you disable that one and repeats itself. Prior to getting to the loading screen, all cores are equally distributed. I am using a Ryzen 7 2700x for my CPU. Any insight on what is specifically causing this behavior with the cores?
I see in the Discord that they mentioned to you about Nahimic and such software. From your description here my first thought would be that that is where you should start looking first before worrying about what my Core Switcher here does.
Keep in mind that it isn’t only Nahimic that can tank your FPS, you might have ASUS Sonic or Alienware SoundCenter etc… basically any pre-packaged audio management software seems to be prone to such behavior for some reason. Anything on your system like this that comes to mind for you? I see you mention the Realtek one - I don’t believe I’ve ever seen any reports that specifically found the Realtek one to cause issues yet but you could perhaps see if anything changes by shutting it down/disabling it.
Pretty much any audio management software does not exist in my system. Had to get rid of Nahemic about 2 months ago since it was causing issue with games on my Origin client. So basically just using purely the realtek audio drivers.
Though if this problem is something else aside from the cores, then i’ll have to look at it from a different angle. Thanks for the quick response though!
What is your FPS at when you log in? You say it stutters like crazy… but how crazy is what I’d like to know? If you are getting less than 10 fps then I can almost guarantee you that the problem is audio related.
Mmm. Was just a thought to try anyway. All I can tell you is that your issue is identical - to the letter - of every single person that had Nahimic/Asus Sonic issues. Whatever is going on is going to be something to do with the audio itself. I suggest going thru Task Manager and looking for anything that hints at possibly being the culprit - then shut it down and try again until you find your source…
