Throttling compile to three cores?

Pocket

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So I have finally gotten to the point where my map takes ages to compile, and it literally uses up the entirety of my processor for most of the process. Which means I can't do anything else with my computer while I wait. And I'm thinking, it's a multi-threaded process; I have four cores; there's gotta be a way to make it so vrad, vvis, etc. only use three when they run. But I have no idea what it is. The properties window didn't have anything useful.

This is in Windows 7, and I could swear I saw a tool like this at one point, but can't for the life of me remember what or where it was.
 
Nimelrian

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Task-Manager->Process->right-click on the process->option under "set priority" (I'm german, so i don't know the english name).
 
UKCS-Alias

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Instead you can choose afinity (below priority). in that window that popups when you click it you can set the cores it will use.
 
Psy

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Use VBCT. It helps with computer resources a lot.
 
Jayden

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Just, out of curiousity, how long does it take you guys to compile your maps. I'm wondering what to expect...if it's less than the 3 hour nightmares from Halo CE's sapien, I'll be happy
 
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UKCS-Alias

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Since my new pc its at most 20 minutes on normal for ramparts. On my old pc it used to be 4 hours for de_dust_extended in css.
 
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UKCS-Alias said:
Instead you can choose afinity (below priority). in that window that popups when you click it you can set the cores it will use.
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The only problem with this is that you have to set the affinity for VBSP.exe, VVIS.exe, VRAD.exe all separately and every time they run. Windows doesn't save those settings.
 
Pocket

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Draco18s said:
The only problem with this is that you have to set the affinity for VBSP.exe, VVIS.exe, VRAD.exe all separately and every time they run. Windows doesn't save those settings.
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Yeah, that's what I suspected. And "Set Affinity" has to be the worst-named Windows feature since the Start button.
 
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