PD7 dual processor support?

roger608

Newbie Location: Florida, USA Joined: Apr 21, 2009 16:15 Messages: 19 Offline

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Apr 24, 2009 10:52

Seems to me that somewhere I saw that PD7 supports the multi-core processors that meet the Intel spec. I'm using a HP laptop DV9910us with Vista Home 32 bit and a AMD Turion X2 64 which supposedly is Intel compliant. When I monitor a 'burn' I noted that Windows Task Manager shows only one CPU working, ie., the task is not using 2 processors. Any thoughts on this? :-? AMD FX8350 8 CORE, 16GB, Win 10 Home Prem 64-bit, GTX 1050 2GB, 250GB SSD, 1TB Hitachi SATA 2, PD16

James W

Senior Contributor Location: Lakeland, FL USA Joined: Aug 18, 2008 10:36 Messages: 911 Offline

Apr 24, 2009 12:01

One way to check how many cores are being used by a particular program is to check the CPU affinity.

1. Load PD
2. Press ctrl + alt + del
3. Windows Task Manager should open up. Click on the tab called Processes
4. Find PDR.exe in the list of running applications.
5. Click on PDR.exe and right click. Click the prompt for set affinity.
6. Check to see how many CPUs are being used. For a dual core both CPU 0 and CPU 1 should be checked.

You should not have to change anything from the default settings. Q9300 2.5 GHz
4 GB Ram
Nvidia 9800 GT

Antiekeradio

Newbie Location: Netherlands, EU Joined: Oct 20, 2008 06:24 Messages: 22 Offline

May 02, 2009 17:31

Do you mean "burning" as in burning a finished project to disc;

or do you mean the 'rendering' of the video??

I could imagine that the burning to disc is a single core process (which is not very processor-intensive, but may show a sizeable load on slower CPU's)

But the rendering process is definately optimised for multi-core processing.
The latest builds are even optimised for Intel Core i7 (which has 4 multithreaded cores, so that you can run 8 threads)