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The game "Blood" and dosbox's core setting

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First post, by static-

Posted on 2013-11-12, 05:47

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When I try blood with cycles=max, core=dynamic, it runs perfectly smooth and uses 15% host cpu
When I try blood with cycles=max, core=normal/full, it runs very slowly and uses 15% host cpu

I would have thought host CPU would be the bottleneck for core=static, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

What it the bottleneck when core=normal or core=full ?

Reply 1 of 3, by Qbix

Posted on 2013-11-12, 06:58

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you have a multicore processor ?
(i7 ?) As this looks like one of the cores being maxed out.

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Reply 2 of 3, by static-

Posted on 2013-11-12, 07:07

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I do (4770k) .. but strange, process explorer with "show one graph per CPU" shows none of the cores are maxed out. I see 8, I assume 4 extra from hyperthreading.

Reply 3 of 3, by ripa

Posted on 2013-11-12, 18:48

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static- wrote:
I do (4770k) .. but strange, process explorer with "show one graph per CPU" shows none of the cores are maxed out. I see 8, I assume 4 extra from hyperthreading.

Windows balances load between cores, so that's why you might see 50% on two cores instead of 100% and 0% for example.

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