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Nehalem 4 Cores Owners, How many CPU you see in After Effects CS4?

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AndyCorleone

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Hi, I have a question to Owner of the New Mac Pro Nehalem (4 Cores):

How many CPU you see in After Effects CS4?

For Some Reason in a 4 Cores Machine it show 8 Cores.

Thanks in advance for any help
 
AndyCorleone said:
Thanks for the link but I something very specific to After Effecs. In System Preferences Show 4 cores But in AF show 8 CPUs (Cores)
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The cpu has 2 threads per core. Most applications treat threads as a cpu, so you end up with 4x2 threads or 8 "cpus".
 
zmttoxics said:
The cpu has 2 threads per core. Most applications treat threads as a cpu, so you end up with 4x2 threads or 8 "cpus".
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Thanks for the reply, that is something that you can confirm with AF CS4 and Nehalem4 or is something that you think?
 
I have a lot of problem with my renders in After Effects CS4 (the RAM Memory runs out very Quickly I had tried all the Posibble settings in Multiprocessing) I run in the Same MACPRO Vista64 fter effects CS4 for windows (I can see 4 Cores instead of the 8 in MAC) Everthing Run a lot more smooth and Render never run out of memory. BTW I have 12GB of RAM installed. The last update from Adobe was before MACPro start selling. I'm serius thing is something wrong with AF CS4 in Mac
 
Virtual Cores cause a lot of problems with a lot of different software. It's a well known issue and has been around since there were virtual cores. Software developers have always prescribed turning off HT as I guess it's nearly impossible in many cases to fix it in code. Apple knows this and I dunno why the new machines don't come with a preference or boot preference to turn it off. It's negligent IMO. Anyway there may be a way to do so anyway. :)

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/7470788/

Give it a try and let me know if it works!
 
Tesselator said:
Virtual Cores cause a lot of problems with a lot of different software. It's a well known issue and has been around since there were virtual cores. Software developers have always prescribed turning off HT as I guess it's nearly impossible in many cases to fix it in code. Apple knows this and I dunno why the new machines don't come with a preference or boot preference to turn it off. It's negligent IMO. Anyway there may be a way to do so anyway. :)

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/7470788/

Give it a try and let me know if it works!
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Thanks After Playing a few with the aplication I found help a with the memory allocation but I want to use all cores in the System (That's why I upgrade the MAChine) I find really anoying that CS4 in mac is worst than in WindowsVista64. I don't want to switch but aparantly I don't have more options at this moment :mad:
 
Tesselator said:
Virtual Cores cause a lot of problems with a lot of different software. It's a well known issue and has been around since there were virtual cores. Software developers have always prescribed turning off HT as I guess it's nearly impossible in many cases to fix it in code. Apple knows this and I dunno why the new machines don't come with a preference or boot preference to turn it off. It's negligent IMO. Anyway there may be a way to do so anyway. :)

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/7470788/

Give it a try and let me know if it works!
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Your solution is a little wierd. You can't turn off 8 cores on a 4 core machine. Each core has 2 threads, but you can't turn off individual threads. All you have to do is uncheck the "hyper-threading" button... thats all. Or check the box to have it in the menu then whenever you don't want hyper-threading just click on hyper-threading in the menu bar.

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Abidubi said:
Your solution is a little wierd. You can't turn off 8 cores on a 4 core machine. Each core has 2 threads, but you can't turn off individual threads. All you have to do is uncheck the "hyper-threading" button... thats all. Or check the box to have it in the menu then whenever you don't want hyper-threading just click on hyper-threading in the menu bar.

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Oh good! So Apple did do it right. See, I asked this several times in the past and supposed 2009 MP owners told me that there was no way to do what you just showed. ;)


EDIT: Oh wait... that's the developers Processor prefs pane? Oh OK... so that needs to be downloaded and installed then. Kewl! Apple should really make that a part of 10.5.7 and the new 10.6 when it comes out.

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You can turn off individual threads when you access it through the System Preferences.
 

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Just click the edit button and add a "T". ;)
 
Tesselator said:
LOL!!! Yes I can!


I can have any combination of CPUs on or off as long as CPU1 is on - for obvious reasons.

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Again, I am actually using the machine and NO, you can't. You specifically said:
Tesselator said:
EDIT: EDIT:
You can turn off individual threads when you access it through the System Preferences.
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Just like in the image, you can turn off whatever CPU you want, but you have no choice which threads. You cannot say I want hyper-threading on for CPU 2 and 4 only.
 
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