I just found out that AMD released a new version of it this august. Anyone who already tested it?
You can get it here.
You can get it here.
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Re: New AMD Dual Core Optimizer
I tried it, but I think it's XP only. It installed fine, but when I click the .exe, nothing happens. -
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What is it supposed to do exactly. I've never had an AMD dual core in any of my computers.Comment
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Taken from their website:
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 processor systems, by periodically adjusting the core time-stamp-counters, so that they are synchronized.
But after I did a bit of googling, it appears that this is only needed on XP because it's already fixed in windows vista. They should put that in the description so that people don't get confused.Comment
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I installed it on Vista without problems. The fix was related to the older version of the optimizer which came with the OS.Comment
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I installed it on vista without problems, too. But nothing happens when I click the .exeComment
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Doesn't the optimizer start and run in the background anyway?Comment
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Not for me...Comment
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It's at least doing that in xp, I'll switch into vista later and look if it works.Comment
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