A question for RC's Computer Wizards:Will a dual core PC run RC better, as it supposed to do multitasking better than one core?Thinking out loud...Paul

i'll let you know, when i have one ;-)jd

Paul,I have FS9 and RC4 running on a P4 3.0 with HyperThreading enabled. Performance of both is excellent with no special settings. Dual-core would be over-the-top for such an undemanding program as RC4... or RC5 :-)Cheers,

Hi Ray,Another Paul here.I too have a P4 3.20, can you explain how you enabled Hyper Threading on your machine?Sticker on the side of my PC says that I've got it but I can't see anywhere in the windows control panel where I enable/disable it.Is it a bios setting of some type?thanksPaulj

if you start taskmgr, you will see two cpu windows.there is nothing in windows to set yes or no, there may be something in the bios, i never went looking for it.jd

>I too have a P4 3.20, can you explain how you enabled Hyper>Threading on your machine?>Sticker on the side of my PC says that I've got it but I can't>see anywhere in the windows control panel where I>enable/disable it.>Is it a bios setting of some type?I've got a P4 3.2 w/Hyperthreading. My motherboard is a ASUS P4P800.There is a bios setting to enable/disable hyperthreading. When hyperthreading is enabled you will see CPU 0 and CPU 1 in the task manager graphs of CPU loading. You can assign each individual process to either or both CPU 0 and CPU 1. Note that the assignment is only good until the next restart. There is a tool called ImageCFG which allows you to make permanent CPU assignment changes.FWIW: I could not distinguish between hyperthread and non-hyperthread performance so I run with it disabled. I caveat this by saying my FS host is a dedicated machine, and there are only 14 processes running that are not associated with FS. RC4 runs on a separate WideFS client, along with AS6.-michael

Hi Paul,As Michael say's it a BIOS setting. In Advanced BIOS Settings there's an option named Hyper Threading Function. I have always had it set to Enabled.Cheers,

>A question for RC's Computer Wizards:>>Will a dual core PC run RC better, as it supposed to do>multitasking better than one core?>>Thinking out loud...>>PaulWell, I don't have radar contact yet (still hoping for d/l version;) ), but I use ASV6, FSRealtime and VATSIM programs in the background while running FS and they do not use the same core, so basically FS has full processor (core) to use. I don't see any reason fro RC to behave different.

order the cd, you'll have it before it's available for download.jd