For some reason people expect all their CPU cores to run and all of them with the same amount of usage. When in reality it does not happen, or matter. It causes a lot of people to worry about something that there is no need to worry about.

From a Microsoft thread.....................

The problem with dual core, triple core, quad core and other multi-core processors is that software can rarely take full advantage of them. Because of the way software is being designed today, there are very good chances that when one core runs a certain part of the software's code, and another core runs a different part, if the two parts are dependent on each other, one of them will fail if the other one doesn't finish on time.

Intel has strongly encouraged developers to target multi-core CPUs with their code, and Microsoft is taking a step towards that by changing some of the design of Windows 7 to accommodate and take advantage of all the available cores. Although the basis for Windows 7 will remain the same as for Windows Vista, a series of tweaks will help Windows 7 take advantage of the newer CPUs.

For future versions of Windows, Microsoft plans to replace the Windows core with fully managed code, that is designed specifically with parallel processing in mind.

I am assuming in Windows 8 from what I have been reading from the recent leak.

Zakhir

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Hi Bubba,

I'm sure you remember my nearly exact question as Zakhir's.
While his PD runs 4, apparently, on his machine, -
I, as you may remember, get these red warning signs when rendering inside PD9.

From reading what you have found in the Microsoft thread,
I'm wondering why we spend additional money on several cores....
at least for the time being.

When I use my converters, or other NLE's I don't get the warning sign.
Do you have further advise or findings, Bubba?
Not a tech-person, I still find this interesting.
The quad-core has been around for some time, but according to your findings,
software designed today still don't use them...?

Can this offer an explanation?

Because of the way software is being designed today, there are very good chances that when one core runs a certain part of the software's code, and another core runs a different part, if the two parts are dependent on each other, one of them will fail if the other one doesn't finish on time.

That on my pc, something is obstructing the cores to co-work in PD?
Thus leaving 1- working at 100% and red?





Just something.
https://www.petitpoisvideo.com

Nina

You have not wasted anything.... One would think that within a year, the software companies will have sorted out the code to enable maximum CPU usage, and Win7 is getting upgraded monthly with a major update coming this Tuesday. It was sad that the Win7 SP1 did not fix a lot of things users were complaining about. Who knows when or if PD will be able to maximize CPU usage. Maybe in PD10.

The only thing I did not like about the sneak peek at the leaked Win8 last week, was that it will have more ribbons and some will no longer have the old fashion menu tool bars available. (supposedly) Like the ones in Office suite 2007/2010. They didn't say much about the OS itself. Hope they have another beta test like last time.... I hate ribbons........ why can't they just leave those things alone..... __________________________________________
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When you are asked to provide a DXDIAG you go the following link and do part "B". Your posted specs are NOT what we are looking for as they tell us nothing. The specs on the box of your computer mean nothing. The DXDIAG shows us how your computer is configured as it runs.

DXDIAG Link

The use of the "cores" is entirely in the control of the PD9 designers. With ATI graphics cards it is very evident when and how the cores are being used in conjunction with the GPU on the graphics card. I'm certain the same holds true for NVIDIA graphics. Win 10, i7

PD9 uses all for of my 4 CPU cores pretty much equally while transcoding video files. If I have done any editing of the content, the transcoding uses 95% of my CPU...with each core utilized equally.

Windows 7 - 64 bit
Quad Core / 2.6mhz
ATI 4350 Graphics Card
8GB Ram
HP Pavillion e9220y

-Allen

That quote from Microsoft is not talking about applications like PD9. PD9 is obviously a multi threaded application -- both advertised as such and you can see it takes advantage of multiple cores (as noted in this thread even).

The core i7 is a quad core CPU. You see the 8 listed on the windows task manager because you have Intel's Hyperthreading enabled. It isn't one thread per core like you mentioned. When using Hyperthreading you get 2 threads per core which is why you are seeing 8 in the task manager.

If you are maxing out the 4 actual cores, there is no benefit to using those extra threads, your cpu is already doing as much as it can.