Ok I've been monitoring the other thread on VS10Plus support for Core 2 Duo and the software making use of both CPUs when encoding video.
At first I thought that the SP1 update also provided dual-core support for AMD dual core processors. Now I'm not so convinced since my processor never gets above approximately 65% when rendering - this is also true in MF5Plus, which is also supposed to support dual-core processors.
So you AMD users out there, can you confirm whether or not you think VS10+ now makes use of both cores or not? Unfortunately, I did not do any benchmark before updating to SP1
I use an AMD X2 4600 for reference
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Sometimes the bottleneck is not how software uses the CPU resources. It's possible CPU is waiting for disk I/O activities.
Just my 2 cents.
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HT thanks for your input and quite agree with you, but in this instance I've just put a new system together, which consists of the X2 processor, 2 GB of DDR2 cas4 RAM, 1x 74GB 10K RPM (RAPTOR) HDD, 320 GB 7200RPM SATA and 400 GB 7200RPM SATA drives. I'm making full use of all 3 drives in VS10
I/O transfers are very fast even in VS10 (e.g. SmartRender)
What concerns me is that other software that are multi-thread capable such as Adobe Lightroom (beta) or Nero Recode (only time I mention it), will completely max out both CPUs on my machine, which VS10 and MF5 do not even during rendering MPEG. Indeed MF5 does not go above 50%, which suggests to me that it is only using one core, while VS10 uses between 60 and 72%.
I wanted to get to know other AMD X2 user experiences with VS10 because what concerns me is that either (1) my machine may have a bug, or (2) the MPEG encoder itself is not optimised for AMD dual-core processors and if this is the case then I'm sure that there are many users out there who would like AMD processors to be supported in future updates and not just those that Intel offer.
I/O transfers are very fast even in VS10 (e.g. SmartRender)
What concerns me is that other software that are multi-thread capable such as Adobe Lightroom (beta) or Nero Recode (only time I mention it), will completely max out both CPUs on my machine, which VS10 and MF5 do not even during rendering MPEG. Indeed MF5 does not go above 50%, which suggests to me that it is only using one core, while VS10 uses between 60 and 72%.
I wanted to get to know other AMD X2 user experiences with VS10 because what concerns me is that either (1) my machine may have a bug, or (2) the MPEG encoder itself is not optimised for AMD dual-core processors and if this is the case then I'm sure that there are many users out there who would like AMD processors to be supported in future updates and not just those that Intel offer.
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I get about 74%, so yours appears to be in the right range.
Remember that not all encoders are fully multithreaded or that only certain modes (ex: 2-pass) may be affected.
That said; nothing stops you from using the encoder of your choosing. Just download the freeware DebugMode Frameserver.
http://www.debugmode.com/frameserver/
It adds a new export filetype which saves a proxy "avi" file. This file is actually used to link MSPro or VideoStudio's timeline to external encoders as if they were a Ulead plugin. Just load it into the encoder.
Once the link is made you set up the encoder and start it. The frameserver handles it from there.
The only problem you may have is Frameservers installer; you may have to browse to VS's VIO folder manually.
Remember that not all encoders are fully multithreaded or that only certain modes (ex: 2-pass) may be affected.
That said; nothing stops you from using the encoder of your choosing. Just download the freeware DebugMode Frameserver.
http://www.debugmode.com/frameserver/
It adds a new export filetype which saves a proxy "avi" file. This file is actually used to link MSPro or VideoStudio's timeline to external encoders as if they were a Ulead plugin. Just load it into the encoder.
Once the link is made you set up the encoder and start it. The frameserver handles it from there.
The only problem you may have is Frameservers installer; you may have to browse to VS's VIO folder manually.
Terry Stetler