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[leon_90]

Hi lads,

well I found this little tool for GT Legends and decided to try it out. It worked, giving me a boost in fps. So, I decided to try it out even on GPL since my old method of setting affinity through Process Lasso is no longer a viable solution (program started to get messy with latest updates and seemed to me it was slowing down my cpu instead of helping it).
I know people said that it doesn't work for GPL and all that reasonable stuff, but still it works for me. No placebo, tried on Monaco and Monza10k and boosts from 29fps to 36.
So I decided to share the link. Inside there's a pdf manual telling you what to do. Just do it for GPL instead of GTL works for every exe so no problemo

http://www.nogriprac...hp?filenr=27320

REMEMBER to set it to your mod exe and NOT gpl.exe; you have to point it to gplc67exe, c65, x69 and so on and so forth depending on the mod you play and it's related exe
An audio message will tell you if it set affinity correctly or not

Edited by leon_90, Sep 15 2016 - 06:43 AM.

[Pete Gaimari]

What is it doing Leon? Does it depend on what CPU or Vid card you have?

[leon_90]

Pete Gaimari, on Sep 16 2016 - 12:28 PM, said:

What is it doing Leon? Does it depend on what CPU or Vid card you have?

Basically it is for people with multi-core/multi-threaded cpus. Dual, quad, esa, octa and so on cpus. It tells Windows to distribute the load on all of your cores (or some of them if you set it so) instead than on one only (usually it is the second core, core1).

As I said, it has been argument of discussion whether this helps GPL or not, while it is certain to help ISI engine based sims. In my case, setting affinity helps fps in GPL, and so I use it. May apply for others, may not. It is of no harm anyway and easily revertable (delete one file from GPL root) so I thought to share it.

[Michkov]

So it basically does what "Set Affinity" does in of Windows Task Manager?

[leon_90]

Michkov, on Sep 16 2016 - 03:19 PM, said:

So it basically does what "Set Affinity" does in of Windows Task Manager?

yes, it avoids you having to do that manually everytime you start the program

[Michkov]

leon_90, on Sep 16 2016 - 03:36 PM, said:

Michkov, on Sep 16 2016 - 03:19 PM, said:

So it basically does what "Set Affinity" does in of Windows Task Manager?

yes, it avoids you having to do that manually everytime you start the program

I thought that setting sticks around, learned something new today.

[ginetto]

I just check the affinity of gpl exe in task manager and is set as all cores (8) already.
What changes using this tool?

[leon_90]

ginetto, on Sep 17 2016 - 04:49 AM, said:

I just check the affinity of gpl exe in task manager and is set as all cores (8) already.
What changes using this tool?

That's weird.. It means something else has already set your GPL affinity, because that is not default Windows behaviour. You don't need this tool then, but you should check what did this for you. Just out of curiosity, you know
You have an octacore? Which cpu do you have? I'm jealous

[ginetto]

I have no idea Leon; I did a clean install of win7 64b this last winter and then copy paste GPL folder.
I didn't touch the affinity before, I didn't even knew it was possible to work around it.

I have an intel i7; I'm not sure, maybe 4 real cores and 4 "vitual" or something like that?

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[leon_90]

Ok maybe I got it.

Yes you have 4 physical cores and 4 virtual one.
Open up the task manager while GPL is running and right click on it's exe (depending on which mods' exe you are running). Then click "look to details" (vai ai dettagli, in italiano) and then another right click on the exe from this second tab. Now click "set affinity" and look how many core boxes are checked

Edited by leon_90, Sep 17 2016 - 06:12 AM.

[ginetto]

8 cores are checked plus the all cores at the top

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[gliebzeit]

Ginetto, I also have an Intel i7 processor and run Windows 7 64-bit.  Where are my 8 cores?!!!!  

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Edited by gliebzeit, Sep 17 2016 - 09:27 AM.

[leon_90]

gliebzeit, on Sep 17 2016 - 09:21 AM, said:

Ginetto, I also have an Intel i7 processor and run Windows 7 64-bit.  Where are my 8 cores?!!!!  

You don't have 4+4 Greg but 2+2

http://ark.intel.com...-up-to-3_40-GHz

Anyway what is puzzling me is what set your affinity automatically... Must be some 3rd party program because Windows 7 definitely doesn't have that feature. I believe only Skylake cpus on Win10 do

[Roo]

ginetto, on Sep 17 2016 - 08:33 AM, said:

8 cores are checked plus the all cores at the top

how can i get to the task manager while gpl is running?
when I try, gpl stops working & then gplcf2-exe is no longer visible in the process list.
i remember that gpl will run in a window, how do you set that?

[gliebzeit]

While G.P.L. is running in full screen just press CTL-ALT-DEL and then select Start Task Manager.  Look for the GEM modded exe file under the Processes tab (ie gplc65.exe).

Edited by gliebzeit, Sep 18 2016 - 07:33 AM.

[TomJ]

Right-click on the Windows taskbar and launch Task Manager. Find your process in the list, right-click on it and choose Set affinity from the context menu.
You will see by default all apps are allowed to span all the processors in your PC. Just uncheck the ones you don't want it to run on and you are good to go.
Aug 27, 2012

How To Force Windows Applications to Use a Specific CPU

www.howtogeek.com/121775/how-to-force-windows-applications-to-use-a-specific-cpu/

It looks like if Windows recognizes GPL is running, it will use all cores. I'm running Windows 10 64-bit with Intel i7 processor and I'm unable to get to task manager while running GPL.
In all other programs I can get to task manager using CTL-ALT-DEl. All that said, GPL is running great now with my current system.

Edited by TomJ, Sep 18 2016 - 08:13 AM.

[Roo]

Thanks Greg, I can get task manager open but then i get a message saying 'gpl has stopped working' & at this point task manager will not come to the front unless I acknowledge the '... not working...' dialog. then gplcf2.exe is no longer available to select in task manager processes. therein lies my problem

i figure running in a window would solve that problem but I can't remember how to do that :doh:

[JMF]

Roo, on Sep 18 2016 - 08:15 AM, said:

i figure running in a window would solve that problem but I can't remember how to do that :doh:

You need to set the resolution to 640X480, I think. I'm not sure if 800X600 works.

[gliebzeit]

Roo, do you have G.P.L. set to run at your 'Native Desktop Resolution'?  Give that a test if you don't have it that way.

... and to clarify something else.  When I bring up Task Manager while G.P.L. is running, I click on the 'Processes' tab, find 'gplcxx.exe' in the list and then right-click to bring up the 'Set Affinity'... dialog.  This brings me back to the G.P.L. screen whereby I must bring up Task Manager a second time to actually see the 'Set Affinity' screen.  Finally, to return to G.P.L. I click on the  'Applications' tab and select the 'Papyrus Window' and then click on the 'Switch To' button in the lower right.

Edited by gliebzeit, Sep 18 2016 - 09:40 AM.

[Michkov]

Ctrl+Shift+Esc brings up the Task Manager directly for Win7 and up