If you are seeing it go up to 5 then it is likely an 8 core. Just to be clear here the Resource Monitor doesn’t show you some of the cores some of the time - it shows all of your cores all of the time…
if you had 8 this list would show 4 more cores. CPU 0 is Core 1, CPU 1 is Core 2 and so on… I’m not interested in what cores it’s “using” but how “many” Windows thinks you have - which is what I was looking to know. 
Anyway, I went ahead and said screw it and installed TQAE to make double sure it works.
tq_8core_switcher.zip (522.9 KB)
From what I can see TQ does behave similarly to GD, using primarily one core (not at 100% like GD tho but fairly heavy) with light activity on the others. When I first tried my script it did not respond at all while in-game… so I tried it while tabbed out of the game and it worked. They must have something in the game preventing outside hotkeys from working while the game is active at the forefront. I have no idea how they do that but it seems it is so. But they work outside the game and toggling the core did indeed, for me, force TQ to use all cores equally.
- Download and extract. Run the .exe file inside it. It will show an icon in your system tray and from here you can make it exit whenever you like.
- Start up TQ let it run for 5-10 seconds then tab out of the game and press
Ctrl+Alt+o - When you do this you will hear a system beep and then 8 seconds later another beep. This means it is done.
- Open up Resource Monitor, select CPU so you can see all cores. Tab back into the game and play for a minute.
- Tab back out and see what all TQ has been doing with your cores. Ezpz lemon squeezy.
TQAE BEFORE:
TQAE AFTER:
