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X2 affinity performace gains (a must read)UPDATED!!!

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Biftheunderstudy

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Doesn't seem to work, this could be due to the fact I'm running XP x64. The programs launch fine, but none of the alt+ commands do anything and the program selected does not start with the selected affinity nor priority.

Is there a new method to applying this app, I renamed StartAffinity to SA.exe and placed that along with process.exe in the system32 folder.

Any thoughts?
 

formulav8

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See if there is a option for you to run the program in Compatibility Mode for WinXP 32Bit. Although I thought the 64Bit XP was supposed to be backwards compatible?? See if compatibility mode will help or not.



Jason
 

letdown427

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Does it manage to assign affinities for the running processes? That uses kernel32.dll and psapi.dll, they may be different in x64?

It's weird that the Alt+ shortcuts don't work, I just plain don't get that.

If it just isn't starting the program with the correct affinity, then that's related to Process.exe, which isn't something I've made unfortunately...
 

Biftheunderstudy

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The affinity and priority seem to apply correctly, games like dungeons and dragons online and city of villains(although now I know have smp) have an updater which launches first and makes it impossible to set the priority or affinity. For some reason city of villains won't allow me to set the priority at all, even in task manager, if I set it to high and I look like 3 seconds later it will be on below normal.

The alt + shortcuts are still a no go.