Frustrated to tears with CTDs

[johnno74]

Originally Posted by baggygreen

Really? I cant burn or anything else other than sometimes surf the web when i play SH3, and when I upped the priority it brought about an immediate improvement. Maybe i'll just put it down to blind luck then i guess.

If you are doing other stuff which is moderately intensive - like burning a dvd while you are playing SH3, then yes, increasing the priority of SH3 WILL help

windows will share your CPU amongst all the apps you have running - but if anything has a priority above the others then that process will get pretty much as much cpu as it wants, and anything that is left will be split amonst the normal priority stuff.

Dual core helps with multitasking, because most apps including SH3 are single-core, so really the most cpu any one single-threaded app can use is 50% - so you have 50% left for other stuff.

What does bug me is people that shut down absolutely everyting in their system so its damn near 100% idle, then start their game at high priority and say they notice a difference.