AMD has silently released a utility that fixes time stamp counter (TSC) issues with dual-core AMD processors such as the Athlon 64 X2 and Opteron. The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer utility is a driver that synchronizes the time stamp counter on both processor cores and improves game compatibility and performance. Time stamp counter issues occur in older games that are incompatible with multithreading and would run too fast or out of sync.
Issues also occur in newer games and applications that have compatibility issues with processor affinity like Need For Speed: Most Wanted. Affinity issues typically required users to bring up the task manager and set the processor affinity manually or performance would suffer dramatically.
The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer utility could possibly be the rumored “Reverse Hyper-Threading†patch that would improve single thread application and games performance by having dual-core processors show up as a single core processor in applications...
Issues also occur in newer games and applications that have compatibility issues with processor affinity like Need For Speed: Most Wanted. Affinity issues typically required users to bring up the task manager and set the processor affinity manually or performance would suffer dramatically.
The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer utility could possibly be the rumored “Reverse Hyper-Threading†patch that would improve single thread application and games performance by having dual-core processors show up as a single core processor in applications...
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