Procaff not needed with Core2Duo

[JEFX]

Hi all

 

I just made a test with my new E6600 system.

 

There was NO difference before and after installing procaff in the FPS or fluidity.

 

I did as explained on the C6 site :

(instal procaff in, say, C:\WINDOWS and then , in the properties of my Lockon shortcut, change the target line to something like:

C:\WINDOWS\procaff.exe /run 1 ''Program Files\Ubisoft\Eagle Dynamics\LockOn\LOCKON.EXE").

 

Now when I run Lockon I see no difference.

 

JEFX

[ViperVJG73]

Hi all

 

I just made a test with my new E6600 system.

 

There was NO difference before and after installing procaff in the FPS or fluidity.

 

I did as explained on the C6 site :

(instal procaff in, say, C:\WINDOWS and then , in the properties of my Lockon shortcut, change the target line to something like:

C:\WINDOWS\procaff.exe /run 1 ''Program Files\Ubisoft\Eagle Dynamics\LockOn\LOCKON.EXE").

 

Now when I run Lockon I see no difference.

 

JEFX

 

Sorry, your path was not correctly!

 

C:\WINDOWS\procaff.exe /run 1 C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Eagle Dynamics\LockOn\LOCKON.EXE procaff.exe /run 1"

 

You can see the result in the "Task Manager!"

[JEFX]

Thanks Viper

 

I will give it a try tonight.

What do you mean by 'see the difference in the task manager'?

 

thanks

 

 

JEFX

[ViperVJG73]

Thanks Viper

 

I will give it a try tonight.

What do you mean by 'see the difference in the task manager'?

 

thanks

 

 

JEFX

 

You can see the capacity-use of both CPU in the task manager under performance! ;)

[JEFX]

Hi ViperVJG73

 

I finally gave a try...

I tried before changing the path and it is clear that it was already working (I could clearly see in task manager that with my path it is already working on one core only...)

 

I made an experiment with normal setting (and it is clear that that load is split between the two CPUs) and with Procaff (and it is clear in the task man. that it is in one CPU only) and I see no FPS difference in a test mission... ??

Maybe that was more important for the first generations of dual cores (?) like AMDs 4500+ , etc... Maybe with Conroe it is not so critical?

JEFX

[Guest IguanaKing]

I concur, JEFX, my Core 2 Extreme has no problems running LOMAC without procaff. I have tested LOMAC in both single player and multi-player environments and I can't see any reason for even wanting to use procaff. I have no stuttering in either case, and all of my settings are maxed except for water, which is set to "high". My graphics card is set for 6X AA and 16X AF. :D

[Kuky]

What is Procaff?

[Kuky]

er... never mind the previous question, I just Google-ed for "Procaff" :D

 

By the way, I am running Lock-On on E6600 and I am able to change lockon.exe processor affinity in Windows Task Manager, but I see no different (at least I think there isn't any) if I run it with CPU0/CPU1 or one of the two alone... which one would be better?

 

a. Run lockon.exe on CPU0 only?

b. Run lockon.exe on CPU1 only?

c. Run lockon.exe on CPU0/CPU1?

[Prophet_169th]

Its the same regardless of the core.

 

There was a problem before where Windows was switching cores on you because of load. And this caused the stutter.

 

I believe since then, there have been patches from Windows, and so shouldnt be as much of an issue as before.

 

The problem with using just the task manager to set affinity, is that it resets everytime you open the program.

 

I personally use procaff to set most of my programs that I use a lot with Lockon, like TIR software, TeamSpeak, Cougar Control Panel...etc, to use core 0, and then have LockOn on Core 1.

[dryden]

Hi

 

I personally use procaff to set most of my programs that I use a lot with Lockon, like TIR software, TeamSpeak, Cougar Control Panel...etc, to use core 0, and then have LockOn on Core 1.

 

Has anyone yet gone so far as to put every service on one core, using procaff, to leave LOMAC a clean run on the other core?

 

I was about to do exactly this by editing registry entries at

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

 

but then got cold feet and decided to ask if anyone had done this already ;) Would it be possible to restrain windows services to the other core by just copy-pasting the C:\WINDOWS\procaff 1 [service path] to the beginning of the service's path in registry...?

 

The ideal being that there are practically no other threads running on LOMAC's core :)

[Kuky]

I don't think modifying Windows Services is good thing to do, you might muck up the whole O/S, I thought about doing the same but then I didn't for the reason above :) I just don't want to have to install O/S again because of this, and I don't think doing so (if it actually works) would give any noticeable difference (but again I might be wrong as I never tried this).

 

I do the same as Prophet_169th and set all my applications such as TrackIR, TeamSpeak, etc to run on Core 0 and all games on Core 1 (via Procaff.exe). The stutter definitely goes away at most times (I still get a tiny bit of it at some occassions which I think is CPU related) but Procaff definitely comes in handy for me.

[Ukr_Alex]

Guys its regardles, unless the program/game is coded to run two cores it simply wont.

 

I tried it with other games. GTR 2 just now.

 

I assigned the exe to use both cores in the task manager, only to get an uneven load on both cores, and overall CPU usage of 50-60% suggesting that it simply makes both CPUs into one.

 

I was running the game in windowed mode to see the loades are in real time.

 

The game needs to be programed to divide its load across both cores. For example physics on one, graphics on othe other.

 

What task manager does, I assume is simply combine the 3ghz conroe into 6ghz. Making one core 6ghz processor which probably doesnt get full useanyway because other components are bottlenecking long before 6ghz.

 

 

Same with lomac, both cores assigned CPU usage 50-60% with a mission in the background.

[Ukr_Alex]

Oops looks like you guys are doing somethig else here.

 

 

Well by default windows assigns everything to run on core 0.

 

So the best would be to set teh lockon.exe affinity to core 1 since nothi9ng else runs there.

[33rd_bratpfanne.]

@ dryden: Thats a very interesting approach! If u decide to try out and it works, i would be very interested in fps difference before/after (especially over a big city, thats where fps is lowest).

 

S!

 

Brati