can wine use both processors on dual core?

Sammael · 07-19-2007, 06:36 PM

hi,

i have a dualcore processor and i am running kubuntu feisty fawn 7.04, latest kernel from apt repository. i am playing world of warcraft through wine - it runs flawlessly, in fact even better than under wincrap, but i noticed that wine does only use one of my processors. seems kinda like waste to me, is there any way to get wine to use both processors?

thanks

Tinkster · 07-19-2007, 07:19 PM

Is "world of warcraft" compiled to utilise more than
one CPU? If it isn't there's no point in trying to
get wine to use two CPUs.

Cheers,
Tink

Sammael · 07-19-2007, 11:07 PM

but as i see it (i might be wrong) i am NOT running wow so it shouldn't matter if it was compiled for one or two processors. i am running wine. is there any way to compile wine to use both processors?

thanks for your time

lazlow · 07-19-2007, 11:19 PM

The software that you run MUST be thread aware in order for it to take advantage of both processors. Most windows software is not. It has really only been in the last year that Linux software(not the os) has started to be multithreaded.

Sammael · 07-19-2007, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lazlow

The software that you run MUST be thread aware in order for it to take advantage of both processors. Most windows software is not. It has really only been in the last year that Linux software(not the os) has started to be multithreaded.

thanks for the explanation i thought i made a mistake installing wine.