Ryzom

OK so I have a shiney new PC (AMD Athlon 64 X2, 4800+)... but I have a bit of a question.

At the moment Ryzom is set by default to affinity core 1, resulting in 100% CPU usage on that core.

Core 2 runs at a low 1-5% usage from messenger, windows media player (sorry, I prefer it to the in-game MP3 player cos most of my music has video with it), x-fire, explorer windows, antivirus/firewall, XP Pro background rubbish etc.

Is there any way to improve performance by using more power from the second core? or would this involve major recoding?

Just curious

try here, specifically the AMD Dual-Core Optimizer which is brand new and i only installed this morning and AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version (x86 and x64 exe) 1.3.2 if you under relevant o/s. the second wont enable both cores for the game but will ensure it gets more exclusive use of one of them, the first i read a rumour its an early version of fooling windoze into combining the cores into one virtual one, we shall see.

there is also a micro$oft dual core patch that can increase performance, tbh i didn't notice much difference.

Thanks Rushin! checkin em out now, will shout my findings here