01/09/2008, 12:25 AM
squee666 Wrote:Slushba132 Wrote:Some of my older games and programs can't run on a dual core.
and I have a 64 bit dual core machine.
So if I have some incompatibility with 64 and with dual core that's a pretty good amount of incompatible programs.
and then I said to make up for the dual core thing you can set a programs affinity to one core, but by doing that your processor speed is halfed for that program. (I.e. one 1.1 core + one 1.1 core = one 2.2 core and a 1.1ghz processor isn't very powerful by today's standards)
actualy theres extremely little compatability with 64bit only programs not compatible i know are macdrive
and i havnt come across a program that won't use both cores of the cpu and theres programs that will make other programs use both cores anyhow
also like i said 64bit vista can use 32bit drivers
another thing most emulators are going 64bit for the speed
im using a 64bit gamecube emulator and its great fullscreen fulspeed no lag and audio
also who in hell would use a 1.1ghz dual core srlsy its cheaper and faster to get like a 2.5-2ghz single core
besides if a program is so old it won't work fully on a dual core i think 1.1ghz is fast enough for it
maybe it just isn't using that much cpu usage that it only uses 1 core
besides affinity is automatically set to both cores anyhow
...it is a 2.2ghz dual core and it is a laptop.
So that is pretty fast for today's standards
and I know it is automatically set to both, which is I why I said some older programs have compatibility errors