Tips: Automatically set affinity for *.exe files

[MechEng]

Hi

It bothered me quite a lot that I had to set affinity manually, in order to run two instances of F@H and/or other programs efficiently.
I then looked around and found this great little prog, which even comes from M$. It enables you to alter the executable in order to make run on a particular processor (both SMT/SMP).

I have tried it, and the messages I get from the CMD-prompt seems OK, but I can not check whether it is doing what it should do, as I can't get acces to setting the affinity manually on F@H. (Don't know why)

Anyway, heres the link to the file and a tutorial.. Hope someone else can use it.
http://www.robpol86.com/tutorials/imagecfg.php

If this program by any chance is nothing but a well known secret... well, I would to know it...

Kind of funny... I have been visiting Anandtech for years, but I have never visited the forum before lately.

 

[Rattledagger]

Sounds interesting.
And welcome to the forums.

BTW, the best way to run folding@home is to use FireDaemon to install f@h as a service, and firedaemon has affinity as one of its parameters.
Seti already have affinity-switch built-in.

 

[MechEng]

Hi Rattledagger...

Thank you for the tip about Firedaemon, I have to check it out, to see what it is...
I'm already running it as a service, using another program, but if Firedaemon has a built in "support" for affinity
it is most likely easier to use.

 

[Assimilator1]

Welcome to the forums
I'm sure that link will come in handy for some other projects