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Originally Posted by Laffertytig
does the above post work for xp as well, and does it only improve load times?
and how do programs like nhancer work? if i start nhancer and change settings, does this override nvidia control panel?
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Nope, no such thing in XP, even doubt it's in XP64, since it's still just XP.
Nhancer does the same as Nvidia control panel, you're changing the same entries. If you change something in Nhancer, you'll see those changes reflected in the Nvidia control panel next time you start it; so yes, Nhancer basically overwrites those settings. Nhancer just offers a lot more options, Nvidia probably left those out to make the default panel more fool-proof. But fools shouldn't be messing with their settings in the first place.
Nhancer has an "CPU Multi Core support" option, under the "compatibility" tab. Setting this to "Multi core" allows games to benefit from multi core CPU's, even if the game originally doesn't have such a feature. Disable
only (set to "single core") if you're experiencing trouble caused by multi core CPU in a game. If you're having such trouble, you might also try opening up "Task Manager" (ctrl+alt+del), go to "processes" tab and find the process for the game (while it's running offcourse, in this case SH4.exe), right click on it and select "set affinity...". Now disable all but one core to force the process to use just one core.
A nice tweak is actually to do this for all processes that allow it and set everything to run on one core, and set your game to run on the other(s). That way you can make sure the game has almost exclusive excess to that core.
These settings are
not stored, they are reset when a process ends, Rebooting will obviously end all running processes, so I wouldn't get in to it unless you're experiencing regular stutters because some process in the background keeps demanding CPU cycles. A better thing to do in this case would be to disable said process through either "msconfig" or "services.msc".
Hope it helps.