CPU Stress Testing in Rise of Flight - dual vs quad, and HyperThreading

[GOZR]

Under Load


Idle

Running my old heat cpu sink fan.. Zalman

[GOZR]

Eco if you wish you can bring your 285 and test

[TX-Thunderbolt]

As requested, here's the stress test with HT off:



This was about the 35 sec mark and I had a CTD with some type of mem_bung error or something (though task manager said RoF was still running). I'll run it again tomorrow to verify. Funny though because while it didn't seem as smooth, my frames were in the 40's and 50's the whole time.

[GOZR]

Could you do dedicated server please with the stock mission in Rise of Flight\data\dedicated_config

Thanks

[TX-EcoDragon]

Stepan has posted DServer tests on his i7. . .with HT off it looks the same as on a Quad, two cores see most usage,  with it on, it looks almost like it's just idling on most cores, with two showing ~20% usage. Total usage sits at 14% in taskmanager.

[GOZR]

I wonder now what are the minimum requirement for a DEDICATED server only this days. wanted maybe to load up a machine  I have the box, the HD, the video card if needed, 650 TX-Corsair PSU,, thinking of leaving one somewhere and not touching it.

[TX-EcoDragon]

Don't forget to back things up, and be super careful in the registry!!!!

=AH=Sid pointed this out, and I thought it might be worth trying in RoF:

http://ultimatecomputers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3644


"Who is affected
It only applies to Windows 7 X64 and X32 and only in systems using more than 2 physicial CPU's and/or more than 2 "logical" cores - ie: Core i7's.

The Problem
See here for a bit of info / explanation / more info about CPU Core Parking - http://blogs.technet.com/askperf/archiv ... scing.aspx

Core Parking is a feature of Windows 7 that is causing rare performance problems. I don't notice it on my home i7 / Win7 system but some people are getting microstutters and odd behavior in certain programs. Without the following " tweak" you may see CPU spiking in your programs and Windows Task Manager - some CPU cores will be "turned off" / "parked" depending on load and they will be dynamically turned on or off and dynamically loaded up or down as the system deems necessary - the scope for glitchs / pops / clicks / droputs etc.... in such an environment is simply enormous. To the best of my knowledge, there is no known "switch" to turn it off - no utility I am aware of to "tweak" it off.

The Fix
- Go to Regedit
- Select Edit > Find... and find this key: " 0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583 "
- Within this key, there is a value called: " ValueMax " This value represents the % number of cores the system will park
- Change the value of " ValueMax" to 0 so that, it matches " ValueMin "
- You will have to find the key a few times and repeat the process for each time it is found - the number of instances will depend on the number of power profiles in your system. To do this go back up to Edit > Find Next. (I had 3 instances of this key in my registry.)
- Do a full shutdown and power-off and cold-re-start.

The Result
Better load balancing across all you CPU cores - no spiking - in Windows 7 Task Manager"




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My Value max was set to 64