Not sure if it's a bug but....

[Letanius]

Hey there, the mods look great, and Bootlegger makes installing them wicked easy!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! This is everything I've ever wanted for this game.

One thing that bothers me. I have an AMD 8 core processor, 3.6gHz, running on 16g of RAM with an NVidia GTX 580. Yet the game only seems to be pulling from one core, making it run at 100% the entire time the game is running. Is this normal? Or did I do something wrong during the install?
It makes me think that it is not normal because the game seems (slightly) sluggish, and given my system specs, it shouldn't feel sluggish at all!

Any helpful tips or advice would be appreciated!

[Rundas]

Try clicking ctrl+alt+dlt while you're in game and going into the task manager. From there try setting the affinity of FF7 to all cores.

[Letanius]

That worked like a charm!! Game is running flawlessly now! TYSVM!

[Covarr]

I can't imagine how FF7's performance would improve through multiple cores. Remember, Even the Steam version's code hasn't changed significantly since 1998. Nobody had dual-core processors, and it would've been a waste of time to write software that took advantage of that feature. Hell, it could well have hurt performance because of the need for added scheduling and sync code.

[Bosola]

How would an application with a monolithic single-threaded design exploit a multi-CPU architecture? Don't expect extra cores to 'automagically' kick in.

[nfitc1]

How would an application with a monolithic single-threaded design exploit a multi-CPU architecture? Don't expect extra cores to 'automagically' kick in.

It does affect the timers somehow. After looking into it with DLPB I'm surprised that it works the way it does. The field's countdown timer goes slower the more cores that are involved. I still don't know why this is as it is likely a cross between an updated api on window's part and a mishandling of the resultant values on the exe's part.

[Letanius]

Well, I'm not sure exactly HOW it worked, but I swear on my kids lives, the minute that I changed the affinity to all cores, the game ran flawlessly. It suddenly wasn't pulling 100% off of core 1 (I use core temp to monitor my cores at all times), it's spread evenly throughout, and the game is not sluggish at all. Tifa's slots were almost unusable before changing the affinity, to give you an idea of how sluggish it was.

[DLPB_]

Games are usually designed to use 100% of the CPU, to get all of the power out of it.  At least that is what I have been told numerous times.  The best thing you can do is to set the affinity of FF7 to use CPU0.  That way you force it to use only one of your cores.

It certainly isn't a bug.

Edit.

Oh.  You were already told to do that.