Un-park your CPU cores. Improve your game performance.
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This topic show up not long ago on every tech form I am following and got a lot of attention just because it works surprisingly well.
Other Forums goes too much into the details about it which most of you won`t care about so I give you the simple way to do it. Follow this like to Just Cause 3 for short discussion about it and there you can download the tool and then follow the info from this YouTube video.
It works great for me in Fallout 4 and Just Cause 3. Loading times are half shorter and there is significantly less stuttering. I didn`t noticed much of a fps improvement but I am on single Gpu so having this as a bottleneck I simply won`t. That`s ok thou because I got what I want from this small change and I recommend this to all of you.
Just Cause 3 forum talking about it:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/225540/discussions/0/451848855013647810/
Tool to work with:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/r6dwhl6tjpnbapf/Unpark-CPU-App.zip
and the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fKxZ1mq9KA
This topic show up not long ago on every tech form I am following and got a lot of attention just because it works surprisingly well.
Other Forums goes too much into the details about it which most of you won`t care about so I give you the simple way to do it. Follow this like to Just Cause 3 for short discussion about it and there you can download the tool and then follow the info from this YouTube video.
It works great for me in Fallout 4 and Just Cause 3. Loading times are half shorter and there is significantly less stuttering. I didn`t noticed much of a fps improvement but I am on single Gpu so having this as a bottleneck I simply won`t. That`s ok thou because I got what I want from this small change and I recommend this to all of you.
I've been using this for over a year now and it works very well.
Here's the Direct Link
http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility
Somewhere on the forums is a white paper or SDK page from Microsoft that I posted where they talk about optimizing thread use during game development. If I can find it, I'll link it.
Edit: here's the link https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee417693(VS.85,loband).aspx
[quote="D-Man11"]Zappologist try this, found it via Youube.
Use the Manage Parked CPU Utility, not the Beta (the Beta seems to set CPU speed threshold?)
http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility
Weird, after using this, I'm seeing activity on my vendor disabled cores. I'm not sure if that good or bad. Bad, if these disabled cores are not stable. Although activity on them is very minimal compared to the unlocked cores.
YouTube FTW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP92GzDz7h8[/quote]
Somewhere on the forums is a white paper or SDK page from Microsoft that I posted where they talk about optimizing thread use during game development. If I can find it, I'll link it.
Weird, after using this, I'm seeing activity on my vendor disabled cores. I'm not sure if that good or bad. Bad, if these disabled cores are not stable. Although activity on them is very minimal compared to the unlocked cores.
You just set it once, it's a registry setting, it only gets reset if power saving settings are reconfigured via the control panel, Microsoft Update or any other program. The app can also repark the cores anytime you want.
If you are a gamer, you should have your power setting set to high performance anyways.
Also while this helps in all applications, it will not magically make a game use more cores than the developer has it programmed/configured to use. It will help if it's programed/configured for multithreaded cpu's though.
You just set it once, it's a registry setting, it only gets reset if power saving settings are reconfigured via the control panel, Microsoft Update or any other program. The app can also repark the cores anytime you want.
If you are a gamer, you should have your power setting set to high performance anyways.
Also while this helps in all applications, it will not magically make a game use more cores than the developer has it programmed/configured to use. It will help if it's programed/configured for multithreaded cpu's though.
[quote="D-Man11"]If you are a gamer, you should have your power setting set to high performance anyways.[/quote]I'm already running High Performance, Min/Max Processor State 100%... so is this all it changes?
I actually prefer to leave the power setting to Balanced, because I run my overclock in Adaptive mode, and High Performance basically undoes that and effectively sets you to having a Manual static overclock. I like that Adaptive downclocks when just sitting on the desktop or browsing, and I didn't notice that much of a difference when gaming, because even in adaptive if you're running a game it's going to use what resources it can. Then again, my system is pretty overpowered, it may make more of a difference on systems that are closer to the game's minimum spec. I do set my individual benchmark programs to High Performance.
As for this program, I ran it. Haven't really noticed a difference in 3D Mark or in Witcher 3, but I can't really see a reason to not run it. It does not prevent adaptive downclocking the way High Performance mode does.
I actually prefer to leave the power setting to Balanced, because I run my overclock in Adaptive mode, and High Performance basically undoes that and effectively sets you to having a Manual static overclock. I like that Adaptive downclocks when just sitting on the desktop or browsing, and I didn't notice that much of a difference when gaming, because even in adaptive if you're running a game it's going to use what resources it can. Then again, my system is pretty overpowered, it may make more of a difference on systems that are closer to the game's minimum spec. I do set my individual benchmark programs to High Performance.
As for this program, I ran it. Haven't really noticed a difference in 3D Mark or in Witcher 3, but I can't really see a reason to not run it. It does not prevent adaptive downclocking the way High Performance mode does.
CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K
Cooler: Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate
Motherboard: Asus RAMPAGE V EXTREME, BIOS 2101
Memory: G.Skill 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2666
Storage: Intel 750 Series 1.2TB PCI-E SSD
Storage: Sandisk Ultra II 960GB 2.5" SSD
Video: 2x Gigabyte Gaming G1 980 Ti in SLI, Driver 362.00
Case: Thermaltake Core V71 Full Tower
Power Supply: EVGA Supernova P2 1200W 80+ Platinum
Monitor: ROG SWIFT PG278Q 120Hz 27.0" running 1440p in 3DVision
OS: Windows 10 Pro x64 Build 10586
Overclocks:
Processor: 4.4 GHz adaptive (1.296v under load), LLC7 input 1.92v
Processor Cache: 4.2 GHz offset +0.27v (max 1.212v under load)
Memory: 2666 15-15-15-35-CR2 oc'd to 3000 15-15-15-35-CR1 at 1.38v
GPU SLI: Stock voltage, 1455 MHz, 8000Mhz memory
[quote="Qwinn"]I actually prefer to leave the power setting to Balanced, because I run my overclock in Adaptive mode, and High Performance basically undoes that and effectively sets you to having a Manual static overclock. I like that Adaptive downclocks when just sitting on the desktop or browsing, and I didn't notice that much of a difference when gaming, because even in adaptive if you're running a game it's going to use what resources it can. Then again, my system is pretty overpowered, it may make more of a difference on systems that are closer to the game's minimum spec. I do set my individual benchmark programs to High Performance.
As for this program, I ran it. Haven't really noticed a difference in 3D Mark or in Witcher 3, but I can't really see a reason to not run it. It does not prevent adaptive downclocking the way High Performance mode does.
[/quote]
I hate to break this to you but there is no such think like Overpowered PC. I know that lots of people who invested a lot of money like to make themselves sounds like super lords and shout about it but that doesn`t make theirs PCs run better.
Everybody who dealt with car`s engine tuning process knows that every single bit changed or even small improvement gives you increase in performance (makes no sense money wise but that`s not the point).
The point is that if you got powerful rig then you might be blocked a lot by software and that is happening in case of PC - the biggest cockblock is and will be windows and the way it is designed. This is not game focused software and we all will be loosing a lot until we`re forced to use it.
Small improvements to your system performance can`t be noticed or measured by you but all together makes a lot of change in the way your system handle performance.
Qwinn said:I actually prefer to leave the power setting to Balanced, because I run my overclock in Adaptive mode, and High Performance basically undoes that and effectively sets you to having a Manual static overclock. I like that Adaptive downclocks when just sitting on the desktop or browsing, and I didn't notice that much of a difference when gaming, because even in adaptive if you're running a game it's going to use what resources it can. Then again, my system is pretty overpowered, it may make more of a difference on systems that are closer to the game's minimum spec. I do set my individual benchmark programs to High Performance.
As for this program, I ran it. Haven't really noticed a difference in 3D Mark or in Witcher 3, but I can't really see a reason to not run it. It does not prevent adaptive downclocking the way High Performance mode does.
I hate to break this to you but there is no such think like Overpowered PC. I know that lots of people who invested a lot of money like to make themselves sounds like super lords and shout about it but that doesn`t make theirs PCs run better.
Everybody who dealt with car`s engine tuning process knows that every single bit changed or even small improvement gives you increase in performance (makes no sense money wise but that`s not the point).
The point is that if you got powerful rig then you might be blocked a lot by software and that is happening in case of PC - the biggest cockblock is and will be windows and the way it is designed. This is not game focused software and we all will be loosing a lot until we`re forced to use it.
Small improvements to your system performance can`t be noticed or measured by you but all together makes a lot of change in the way your system handle performance.
[quote="TsaebehT"][quote="D-Man11"]If you are a gamer, you should have your power setting set to high performance anyways.[/quote]I'm already running High Performance, Min/Max Processor State 100%... so is this all it changes?[/quote]
In Power Options, "Power Saver" states: Saves energy by reducing your computer's performance where possible.
"High Performance" states: Favors performance, but may use more energy
While I try to be green and reduce my carbon footprint where possible, my PC stays in performance mode.
The processor power plan by Microsoft is pretty complex, even in Max Performance I wasn't noticing additional threads being utilized, using Core Park Manager seems to consistently spread the load in most applications, resulting in a smoother all around experience.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn613985(v=vs.85).aspx
D-Man11 said:If you are a gamer, you should have your power setting set to high performance anyways.
I'm already running High Performance, Min/Max Processor State 100%... so is this all it changes?
In Power Options, "Power Saver" states: Saves energy by reducing your computer's performance where possible.
"High Performance" states: Favors performance, but may use more energy
While I try to be green and reduce my carbon footprint where possible, my PC stays in performance mode.
The processor power plan by Microsoft is pretty complex, even in Max Performance I wasn't noticing additional threads being utilized, using Core Park Manager seems to consistently spread the load in most applications, resulting in a smoother all around experience.
Hello,
I was playing with the same sorts of things a good while ago with Core Parking et al trying to squeeze more frames out of early Arena Commander in Star Citizen. SC bottlenecks (or used to) more on core than GPU.
I found Process Lasso by bitsum. I've been using it for about a year and I like it. There's a free version to try which does all of the algorithms and just about everything you'd normally care about. Just some time saver and uber-tweaker features in pro.
Best thing I liked before I let it have it's way with my CPUs is that go over in pretty good detail what they are doing and and not doing and why. And does the core parking tweaks and other scheduler enhancements. They have a small "while-1-do" load test app to show improvements from their algorithms over microsoft by itself. Kinda neat.
https://products.bitsum.com/how-probalance-works/#skeptics
From using it I've found plenty of apps that were intermittently crushing performance (I'm looking at you Box.com sync). Instead of supposedly "boosting" the apps you want it throttles the apps that are breaking them. Specify an app to be a "game" and whenever it comes up all the powerplan stuff goes into High-Performance mode. (They have 2 High-Perf modes. Microsoft's regular and an enhanced one)
So you get the best of both worlds if you don't want to switch back and forth in your power plans. (Cheaper utility bills)
Anyway ... enough of me selling it ... I only do so because it's worked well for me and my couple generations old cores.
Ciao
I was playing with the same sorts of things a good while ago with Core Parking et al trying to squeeze more frames out of early Arena Commander in Star Citizen. SC bottlenecks (or used to) more on core than GPU.
I found Process Lasso by bitsum. I've been using it for about a year and I like it. There's a free version to try which does all of the algorithms and just about everything you'd normally care about. Just some time saver and uber-tweaker features in pro.
Best thing I liked before I let it have it's way with my CPUs is that go over in pretty good detail what they are doing and and not doing and why. And does the core parking tweaks and other scheduler enhancements. They have a small "while-1-do" load test app to show improvements from their algorithms over microsoft by itself. Kinda neat.
From using it I've found plenty of apps that were intermittently crushing performance (I'm looking at you Box.com sync). Instead of supposedly "boosting" the apps you want it throttles the apps that are breaking them. Specify an app to be a "game" and whenever it comes up all the powerplan stuff goes into High-Performance mode. (They have 2 High-Perf modes. Microsoft's regular and an enhanced one)
So you get the best of both worlds if you don't want to switch back and forth in your power plans. (Cheaper utility bills)
Anyway ... enough of me selling it ... I only do so because it's worked well for me and my couple generations old cores.
[quote="D-Man11"]Process Lasso is $37.00 for a yearly subscription.
EDIT: I also see that they have a lifetime option for $47.[/quote]
That's the PRO version. The difference between that and the free version, trial period and full-pro is here.
https://bitsum.com/howfree.php
Full Disclosure: I bought the lifetime
Other Forums goes too much into the details about it which most of you won`t care about so I give you the simple way to do it. Follow this like to Just Cause 3 for short discussion about it and there you can download the tool and then follow the info from this YouTube video.
It works great for me in Fallout 4 and Just Cause 3. Loading times are half shorter and there is significantly less stuttering. I didn`t noticed much of a fps improvement but I am on single Gpu so having this as a bottleneck I simply won`t. That`s ok thou because I got what I want from this small change and I recommend this to all of you.
Just Cause 3 forum talking about it:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/225540/discussions/0/451848855013647810/
Tool to work with:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/r6dwhl6tjpnbapf/Unpark-CPU-App.zip
and the video:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198014296177/
Here's the Direct Link
http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility
Somewhere on the forums is a white paper or SDK page from Microsoft that I posted where they talk about optimizing thread use during game development. If I can find it, I'll link it.
Edit: here's the link https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee417693(VS.85,loband).aspx
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If you are a gamer, you should have your power setting set to high performance anyways.
Also while this helps in all applications, it will not magically make a game use more cores than the developer has it programmed/configured to use. It will help if it's programed/configured for multithreaded cpu's though.
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As for this program, I ran it. Haven't really noticed a difference in 3D Mark or in Witcher 3, but I can't really see a reason to not run it. It does not prevent adaptive downclocking the way High Performance mode does.
CPU: Intel Core i7-5930K
Cooler: Thermaltake Water 3.0 Ultimate
Motherboard: Asus RAMPAGE V EXTREME, BIOS 2101
Memory: G.Skill 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2666
Storage: Intel 750 Series 1.2TB PCI-E SSD
Storage: Sandisk Ultra II 960GB 2.5" SSD
Video: 2x Gigabyte Gaming G1 980 Ti in SLI, Driver 362.00
Case: Thermaltake Core V71 Full Tower
Power Supply: EVGA Supernova P2 1200W 80+ Platinum
Monitor: ROG SWIFT PG278Q 120Hz 27.0" running 1440p in 3DVision
OS: Windows 10 Pro x64 Build 10586
Overclocks:
Processor: 4.4 GHz adaptive (1.296v under load), LLC7 input 1.92v
Processor Cache: 4.2 GHz offset +0.27v (max 1.212v under load)
Memory: 2666 15-15-15-35-CR2 oc'd to 3000 15-15-15-35-CR1 at 1.38v
GPU SLI: Stock voltage, 1455 MHz, 8000Mhz memory
I hate to break this to you but there is no such think like Overpowered PC. I know that lots of people who invested a lot of money like to make themselves sounds like super lords and shout about it but that doesn`t make theirs PCs run better.
Everybody who dealt with car`s engine tuning process knows that every single bit changed or even small improvement gives you increase in performance (makes no sense money wise but that`s not the point).
The point is that if you got powerful rig then you might be blocked a lot by software and that is happening in case of PC - the biggest cockblock is and will be windows and the way it is designed. This is not game focused software and we all will be loosing a lot until we`re forced to use it.
Small improvements to your system performance can`t be noticed or measured by you but all together makes a lot of change in the way your system handle performance.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198014296177/
In Power Options, "Power Saver" states: Saves energy by reducing your computer's performance where possible.
"High Performance" states: Favors performance, but may use more energy
While I try to be green and reduce my carbon footprint where possible, my PC stays in performance mode.
The processor power plan by Microsoft is pretty complex, even in Max Performance I wasn't noticing additional threads being utilized, using Core Park Manager seems to consistently spread the load in most applications, resulting in a smoother all around experience.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn613985(v=vs.85).aspx
I was playing with the same sorts of things a good while ago with Core Parking et al trying to squeeze more frames out of early Arena Commander in Star Citizen. SC bottlenecks (or used to) more on core than GPU.
I found Process Lasso by bitsum. I've been using it for about a year and I like it. There's a free version to try which does all of the algorithms and just about everything you'd normally care about. Just some time saver and uber-tweaker features in pro.
Best thing I liked before I let it have it's way with my CPUs is that go over in pretty good detail what they are doing and and not doing and why. And does the core parking tweaks and other scheduler enhancements. They have a small "while-1-do" load test app to show improvements from their algorithms over microsoft by itself. Kinda neat.
https://products.bitsum.com/how-probalance-works/#skeptics
From using it I've found plenty of apps that were intermittently crushing performance (I'm looking at you Box.com sync). Instead of supposedly "boosting" the apps you want it throttles the apps that are breaking them. Specify an app to be a "game" and whenever it comes up all the powerplan stuff goes into High-Performance mode. (They have 2 High-Perf modes. Microsoft's regular and an enhanced one)
So you get the best of both worlds if you don't want to switch back and forth in your power plans. (Cheaper utility bills)
Anyway ... enough of me selling it ... I only do so because it's worked well for me and my couple generations old cores.
Ciao
EDIT: I also see that they have a lifetime option for $47.
That's the PRO version. The difference between that and the free version, trial period and full-pro is here.
https://bitsum.com/howfree.php
Full Disclosure: I bought the lifetime