FX6300 core disabling, How?

Hardware Hub CPU
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Greetings fellow tek guys.

I have a problem regarding my CPU settings.

Lately I've been trying to optimize my PC to run BF4 in playable condition, but with no avail.

I'll demonstrate my performance with BF4 with this simple and short video and it's current state.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2A77w3cOQE

This is what i experience all the time.

 

So I've stumbled on a youtube video from some random user who disabled cores on his FX6100 and can actually play the game smoothly.

So I've booted my PC and found only one relevant information regarding the CPU core control in BIOS. And these are the offered options:

"CPU Core Control"

Automatic mode

One core per CU

two cores per processor

4 cores per processor

 

I've tried googling what do these settings offer and could I possibly fry my CPU in the process.

And now I'm even more confused after reading all sorts of info on the net.

So how do I disable cores and run as quad core instead of six core cpu ( if that's even possible)

Which settings do I need to select ?

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What motherboard do you have? With the fx 6300 the motherboard is actually the item that has to be able to disable cores.

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Gigabyte 970A-DS3P

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Have you checked if your CPU is running hot or anything?

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Open task manager, select processes category (pretty sure), find the program that want to change the amount of cores for it to use, right click (I think, if not, its right click), and click "set affinity", then it should show cores between 0-5 and the checked boxes means which cores are being used for that program. Check/uncheck the desired cores you want the program to use or not use. I did this all at the top of my head. Hopefully I said it right. 

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Tried bios options but the problems with performance are still occuring. Tried disabling cores using task manager and game runs even worse.

No overheating btw, CPu is not overclocked with new thermal paste applied less then month ago.

I guess it's bad coding on devs side because every other game runs just fine.

Thanks everyone for their assistance, mod can lock this thread.

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well that's weird getting the same problem with my i5 2500k@4gz and gtx 480 and 8gb ddr3 maybe its bf4 

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BF4 has a lot of issues right now. The fact that every other game runs fine for you and BF4's recommended system specs include an AMD six-core (aka FX 6300) tells me the game is just buggy. Also you said that disabling cores just made it worse, so it clearly does take advantage of more cores but is just overall not very well optimized right now. In the BF4 PC forums on Battlelog a lot of people seem to be having issues with performance, crashing, etc. So I guess you just gotta wait for them to fix it :/

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I have an FX-8320 and a GTX 760. I can run BF4 on ultra settings ok, just when I'm being hit or firing my weapon occasionally, there are frame drops out the wazoo. Not as bad as what the video shows, just it throws off my ability to keep my reticule on the person. It also does this when I've tried to record with OBS, some stutter from time to time, but still not as bad as the video. 

It really needs to be optimized better. I'm glad BF4 is heavily threading which shows games are moving on from single thread, just that they need to get their stuff together.