It appears as though a program I use has issues running on pc's with hyperthreading capable CPU's. The workaround for this is to set processor affinity through task manager to a single cpu instead of ...

Changing the processor affinity for programs in Windows lets you free up CPU resources being used by lighter processes, so that they can be allocated to more important and intensive programs. Changing ...

What we have here is the case of hardware features having leapt ahead of software capabilities. The rather crude ability to manually set the Processor Affinity of individual tasks, as just described, ...

On a dual-core processor, you can entirely disable the second core through the System Configuration menu or partially disable it using processor affinity options. System Configuration lets you set how ...