Windows 7 how to turn off processor? Please help

[Princess Ariel]

<p>I know when I got my Gateway dual processor and had a speed bug that I could turn off a processor and it would stop it.  Now I have a quad processor and windows 7 and get bad fps rate and was wondering if I turned off a processor if that would help.  But every time I turn them off like I did with xp it just restarts them.  Is there away to do it or a program that will do it?   </p><p>thank you</p>

[Jacquotte]

<p><cite>Areil@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I know when I got my Gateway dual processor and had a speed bug that I could turn off a processor and it would stop it.  Now I have a quad processor and windows 7 and get bad fps rate and was wondering if I turned off a processor if that would help.  But every time I turn them off like I did with xp it just restarts them.  Is there away to do it or a program that will do it?   </p><p>thank you</p></blockquote><p>start -> run -> taskmgr -> processes -> everquest2.exe -> rightclick -> set affinity</p><p>you can try this for testing, should you need to permanently set affinity for eq2, you can do so through a commandline shortcut for the game or with 3rd party software.</p><p>this may not be your problem tho, like Josh sais</p>

[TSR-JoshuaM]

<p>Because of the way the load is distributed you might not see any improvement disabling a core.  What kind of setup do you have?  Can you post your DXDIAG?  Perhaps there are other suggestions we can provide as well.</p>