Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: an Poser7 handle 8 threads (with core i7 CPU) ?

usamike opened this issue on Feb 28, 2009 · 19 posts


pjz99 posted Mon, 02 March 2009 at 4:55 PM

Just because an app is running in 4 threads does not mean it will only ever touch 4 cores.  Threads can be swapped between cores per step - you WANT this to happen, otherwise it could happen that a borked thread could make a whole core 100% busy until it is killed.  A given thread cannot be executed on more than one core per step though.  Poser 7 (and I'm pretty certain Poser Pro also) is capped at 4 threads - no matter how many cores you have, more than 4 won't improve render speed in an otherwise idle environment.

Optimal use of your CPU means the usage graphs are pegged at 100%.  In the i7 example above, the cores are very obviously not 100% :)

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