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AMD Release Dual-Core Optimizer

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  • 06-07-2006 5:50pm
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    Serbian
    Registered Users Posts: 2,157 ✭✭✭


    Just caught wind of AMD's Dual-Core Optimizer. I haven't seen this posted around Boards.ie yet, so apologies if it is a dupe. Here's what it does:
    AMD Dual-Core Optimizer - The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer can help improve some PC gaming video performance by compensating for those applications that bypass the Windows API for timing by directly using the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction. Applications that rely on RDTSC do not benefit from the logic in the operating system to properly account for the affect of power management mechanisms on the rate at which a processor core's Time Stamp Counter (TSC) is incremented. The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer helps to correct the resulting video performance effects or other incorrect timing effects that these applications may experience on dual-core or multiple processor systems.
    You can get it on AMD.com.


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    #2
    awhir
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    is just the drivers god have them for ages but good post :D


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    DemonOfTheFall
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    Think it's a combination of drivers and the MS hotfix ?


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    Cuddlesworth
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    Any conceivable difference though.


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