CPUCores

[HenryLange2199]

Hi,

I am here today about an odd program i stumbled upon on steam, called CPUCores(currently 50% off) http://store.steampowered.com/app/384300/CPUCores__Maximize_Your_FPS/ 

 

Now it says it stops your OS from using your CPU(not totally of course) and therefore increases your FPS. I don't really need to increase my framerate, as my PC is a pile of junk, but good junk(second hand mid range parts, i7 4770s, radeon rx480, SATA SSD) I saw this and thought back to Linus's video on windows game mode. If anyone has experiences with this app with tangible evidence that it works please let me know.

 

This will be really interesting to see the results

 

--HenryLange the hamster

[Armakar]

It essentially uses ALL your CPU cores in a game, ignoring requests of other apps and programs for CPU power.
For example, if you launch a game using it, and your also using Chrome in the background, it's going to do it's best to take all the CPU usage it can from Chrome (thereby improving FPS particularly in CPU heavy games or bad pcs with igpus)

 

I have a friend who uses it and he claims he gets better FPS in alot of games, but he has to close as many programs as possible.

[xtrax]

Maybe I'm not directly answering the question but the thing is that you only really need something like 4 cores for a game. My understanding is that basically a cpu core gets assigned a task, and while it's doing it another task is sent to the other cpu and so on. Then after an amount of time the first cpu is free and the thing goes into a loop basically. 

ps i meant cores not cpu (but cores are like cpus)

[HenryLange2199]

Armakar-Ok so sounds like it would be good for games like ARMA 3(CPU heavy). Also why should you friend need to close programs to increase the framerate, if he uses the program, it seems a bit useless if that is the case.

Thx for the speedy reply btw

[HenryLange2199]

xtrax- I think you are correct in your definiton of how the CPU and cores processes tasks, i think CPUCores tries to stop apps that aren't your game from being first in line to be processed(or that's how it should work) Doesn't really answer my question though but thx anyway