Used AMD Dual-Core Optimizer for Windows?


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The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer improves PC gaming video performance. It compensates for applications bypassing Windows API for timing, synchronizing time-stamp-counters on dual-core systems to correct timing effects.
  • Pros

    • Improves PC gaming video performance.
    • Compensates applications bypassing Windows API timing.
    • Corrects video performance effects on dual-core systems.
    • Synchronizes core time-stamp-counters.
    • Addresses incorrect timing effects.
  • Cons

    • Limited to dual-core processor systems.
    • Targets applications bypassing Windows API for timing.
    • Addresses issues specific to RDTSC instruction usage.
    • Improves "some" PC gaming video performance, not universally.

Used AMD Dual-Core Optimizer for Windows?


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GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
1.1.4
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 10
Additional Requirements
None
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Total Downloads
1,553
Downloads Last Week
7

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By AMD
Improve PC gaming video performance.
The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer can help improve some PC gaming video performance by compensating for those applications that bypass the Windows API for timing by directly using the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction. Applications that rely on RDTSC do not benefit from the logic in the operating system to properly account for the affect of power management mechanisms on the rate at which a processor core's Time Stamp Counter (TSC) is incremented. The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer helps to correct the resulting video performance effects or other incorrect timing effects that these applications may experience on dual-core processor systems, by periodically adjusting the core time-stamp-counters, so that they are synchronized.

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