18 Apr
2007
18 Apr
'07
10:13 p.m.
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:37 -0400, Hal Lane wrote:
I set the Idle Sensitivity in the .pif file's Properties to 'High' and Windows seemed to give more CPU time to Fractint. But with a really time consuming fractal Fractint never uses more than 50% of the Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2GHz CPU as shown in the Task Manager -- even when I raised the priority of the task to 'Real Time' -- the highest setting. The other 50% of the CPU is allocated to the System Idle task -- in other words, the CPU does nothing 1/2 of the time. :-(
My experience with XP is that the idle sensitivity needs to be set to 'Low'. Jonathan