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Re: Have you tried changing affinity?

Last night I did some testing with affinity and processor settings and this is what I thought sounded best.
This is done just after running the batch file described in another section of this thread so that explorer is killed, and smss and winlogon are suspended. I used a start command in the batch file for the "process explorer" program so I could set these values for cmd.exe, which is the batch file program that stays running while foobar plays.

I have System and foobar running at realtime, with every other process, including the cmd.exe program, smss.exe/winlogon.exe and their child processes, etc...etc..set to idle.
I have foobar affinity to set to processor 1 only, and everything else set to processor 0 only, including system.
Lastly, I kill the process explorer once I have made these setting changes.
Unless your system works differently, I think you will hear a smoother and more true-to-life soundstage. Please confirm.

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