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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.
Jonathan wrote:
My experience with XP is that the idle sensitivity needs to be set to 'Low'.
Thanks for giving your experience with XP about 'Idle Sensitivity.' I have not yet tried this in conjunction with changing Fractint's task priority. - Hal Lane ######################### # hallane@earthlink.net # #########################
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:13:23 -0500 From: Jonathan Osuch <osuchj@avalon.net> Subject: Re: [Fractint] <Barry> Try these settings for the Fractint .PIF file in WinXP To: Fractint and General Fractals Discussion <fractint@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <1176934403.3945.4.camel@linux.site> Content-Type: text/plain
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'.
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