Re: does CS2 support dual core

Rob wrote:
SpaceGirl wrote:

Rob wrote:

Peter wrote:

Anyway it has nothing at all to do with the OS.


XP and XP pro have the same support.



Nope, XP Home does only support one single core or processor while XP Pro supports two.


So which part of home xp is different that will not support duo or core2?? which files??


Why not look it up yourself?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx

I think this means;
Home doesn't support two-way multi-processor. So you can have a single processor with two cores, or a single processor with HyperThreading. You cannot have two processors, or two processors with multiple cores (such as Windows XP Pro or OS X Tiger).

You ask what files are different? The difference between XP Home and XP Pro is a few hundred driver files and a registry entry. You CAN hack XP home to become pro. But that's not the point.


I didn't have to look it up to have an understanding of the differences.

You are incorrect by stating that there are a few hundred files - the core of Home has the same files as Pro and its mainly in the networking side of pro which is additional to the home edition.

Sure? IIS is not shipped with XP Home, which consists of 100s of files.

So this has not answer the question - "does CS2 support dual core" - and hence its nothing to do with the operating system.

I know... that's what I was arguing. It was the other chap who insisted I was wrong then plonked me :)

Its not the OS but the program has to be compatible with a twin processor motherboard.

Yep.

Don't be confused with the later generation of processors which are hyperthreaded, core Duo and Core 2 these are all single processors.

No I'm not. The later generation processors arn't hyperthreaded. None of the multi-core chips currently have HT enabled. Windows counts HyperThreaded CPUs as two CPUs, so if you had 2 cores, both with HT... Windows XP home would not see some of the CPUs.

Adobe has supported twin processors well over 10 years now. Maybe back to V5.0 or V6 - there was a patch for this to work. (I did have P2 400 processors at the time) and its been built in since.

Yep. Also, you can see the list of plugins when CS2 starts up (MMX) which supports another set of processor instructions for multimedia that XP also totally ignores. PhotoShop has no problem using them.


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