F@H slows down my HT machine while gaming.

[OverVolt]

Well! i figured out my FPS are a good 5-15FPS slower while playing Americas Army and i couldn't figure out why!?

Well as we know F@H takes a low priority so that other programs get first dibs on CPU resources, but with HT it seems as that one instance of the CLI F@H client keeps folding, which it fine, it shouldn't slow down my game which is taking priority over the other F@H process.

However i think (this is a big maybe) that the F@H process is using up valueable memory bandwidth while i'm gaming and thus slowing down my game.

Well tell me if you guys think that sounds right, because i kinda wanna know why F@H slows down my rig while gaming, its the 1st rig in sig. Also i just wanna let anyone out there know running 2 instances of the CLI client on a HT machine slows down gaming.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

for any games that are memory/processor intensive, I shut down my seti client while playing and turn it back on when done.

 

[Wolfsraider]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
for any games that are memory/processor intensive, I shut down my seti client while playing and turn it back on when done.

yep me too
unless i can play it without shutting it down like card games and such

 

[theAnimal]

F@H performance impact

 

[ProviaFan]

This, AFAIK, is an issue with the way the OS schedules things for an HT-enabled processor. In some cases it thinks it's really on an SMP machine, and when two F@H processes are scheduled as such, the gaming could be slowed. Have you tried running just one F@H process on your HT machine, to see if it slows down the gaming?