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[Micro102]

Got a new computer, wondering how I'm suppose to use the dual core in it. My old computer seemed to do it on it's own, but even thought this one has better tech, it seems slower. I'm guessing that it's due to me downloading a game, so I want to move that download onto the other core. How would I do this?

[ein]

You have to equip one in each hand and take some levels in Dual-Coring.

[Aklyon]

You have to equip one in each hand and take some levels in Dual-Coring.

hehe.
i don't know how for downloading, but if you want to set a program in one core only, open Task Manager, right click and select Go To Process (or goto it directly if you know which one it is), right click the process, and click Set Affinity. set it to only one of the cores and it will only use that one until you close it or Set Affinity again. (it won't keep the setting if you close and re-open it, though.)

[zchris13]

Downloading doesn't have anything to do with the cores, and everything to do with the memory and your network. You don't seem to really understand what's going on here.

[Micro102]

Your right, the game has been saying the download is going to take an hour for the past 2 hours and it is making everything else, even simple flash games take 30 minutes to load.

RAM and processing are good, only thing that I could find remotely related is that the 3D graphics handling on my computer are the worst part of it. But I'm just downloading a 3D game so I'm not sure whats going on.

[zchris13]

You have shit internet, obviously.

[Micro102]

New computer, same internet and modem, wrong

[ein]

Was your internet good before?

[xtank5]

Slow loading anything else is explained by downloading your game.  Anything that comes from the Internet has to be downloaded.  Normally it comes at a certain rate.  When you download large files such as games, it chokes up the rest of your bandwidth.  When you load a web-page, the data from that page has to be downloaded alongside the game.  Sharing your Internet with game and regular downloads makes everything seem slow. 

Otherwise, your local connection is also being shared with your neighbourhood and that would make downloads slow in the same way.

By the way, how fast is your current processor and your old one?  (in GHz)

[Micro102]

Well I downloaded the same game 3 days ago, got the new computer today, private connection, last time was 900 kb per second, now it's 100 kb per second.

Anyway the download is complete now so things are solves, for now.

O yeah and only downloads are effective, once a game is fully loaded it works without lag even though the download is still going.

I blame the economy   

[G-Flex]

Well I downloaded the same game 3 days ago, got the new computer today, private connection, last time was 900 kb per second, now it's 100 kb per second.

Are they both hooked up to the Internet via the same method? Are you on ethernet, or wireless LAN, or directly connected to the modem, or what?

And from what service are you downloading the game?

O yeah and only downloads are effective, once a game is fully loaded it works without lag even though the download is still going.

I'm having trouble telling what you mean by this. Do you mean that a game works fine once loaded even if you have other downloads going on, but a game loads slowly off your hard drive when downloads are going on? In that case, maybe it's an issue with memory or your hard drive, but I'm not sure.

[Micro102]

I found out the problem....seems I was downloading form Europe 

[xtank5]

That'll do 'er.

[ein]

It's actually faster for me to download from Japan than half the US.
Australia sometimes too.

[Grakelin]

When I made the move from Nova Scotia to Ontario, I was always confused about whether it would be faster to download from servers in Texas or Seattle. Before, it was an easy choice. Now, I'm not sure.