[RickRuski]

I have been experimenting with the Process Affinity Mask (P.A.M.) and settings, here is what is happening for me.

With P.A.M. activated the micro stutters are minimised.
With P.A.M. deactivated the micto stutters are more noticeable.

With the patches P.A.M. seemed to disappear from conf.ini so I have added it back in.

I'm running a 4 core proccessor so have set it to 15, see scale below.

This was posted at Ubi Forums some time ago and is also in a reply by 335th_GRAthos in these forums.



Process Affinity =
=1 - core 0
=2 - core 1
=3 - core 0+1
=4 - core 2
=5 - core 0+2
=6 - core 1+2
=7 - core 0+1+2
=8 - core 3
=9 - core 0 + 3
=10 - core 1 + 3
=11 - core 0 + 2 + 3
=12 - core 2 + 3
=13 - core 0 + 2 + 3
=14 - core 1 + 2 + 3
=15 - core 0 + 1 + 2 + 3

My entry is at the bottom of the (rts) section and is installed like this: -


[rts]
; 0 - not use, 1 - show cursor and not capture, 2 - not show cursor, and capture
mouseUse=2
; 0 - not use, 1 - use if hardware exist
joyUse=1
; 0 - not use, 1 - use if hardware exist
trackIRUse=1
ProcessAffinityMask=15

To enable P.A.M. remove semicolon
To disable P.A.M. add semicolon (;ProcessAffinityMask= 15)

As you can see from the above table depending on the setting you should be able to force your CPU to use if possible the cores you want.

15= cores 0,1,2,3 (all 4 cores)

For those like me who are using EVGA Precision Tool it is interesting to see how the useage of the GPU's fluctuate using Sli. One GPU doesn't work the hardest all the time, there are shifts (although briefly) between each card. GPU1 will be operating at say around 80%,GPU2 at about78%, then as demand shifts so does the loading from GPU1 to GPU2. Both cards are running within about 2% of each other which indicates to me that I am getting good balance between the cards. This is in my on screen display with EVGA Precision.

Cheers

Rick