Old Post About the thread settings, and the AUTO behaviour vs. manual

[spacefiddle]

I have mine on AUTO, but I'm not sure what circumstances make the manual adjustment beneficial. Is it the Papyrus engine managing threads. or is it a SimSet creation? Is tuning it by hand useful when you have a lower-end machine, or does overriding AUTO give performance gains when you have a higher-end machine?

Is there a way to enable logging that'll show me thread management? Like if I arbitrarily set threads to a number, I have no idea if it would be less or more than how many AUTO is ending up with. I wouldn't mind helping with performance testing too, if that would be useful.

 

[Phil_T_Casual]

The manual adjust means that upgrades are not taking place in several places at once which drastically reduces the load especially on low-end machines. There is a slight performance gain on a high-end rig using manual but it's not worth it, unless you want see all the upgrades actually happen.

 

[spacefiddle]

The manual adjust means that upgrades are not taking place in several places at once which drastically reduces the load especially on low-end machines. There is a slight performance gain on a high-end rig using manual but it's not worth it, unless you want see all the upgrades actually happen.

But manual adjust lets you change threads from 1 up to 20. I imagine that setting it to 20 would not be a performance gain on a low-end machine, lol. That's my question: how does the "Auto" setting compare to setting it to, say, 10 threads? Or 20? On a machine that can handle N threads, which is the option that will take the most advantage of the hardware?

(And i would love to see all the upgrades actually happen, so that would be a nice bonus side-effect.)