Unable to Disable Core Parking In Windows 10

CreatuRe64

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Hi,

I am having trouble disabling core parking in windows 10. I never had any trouble in the past when using windows 7.

I have tried both the park controll app as well as unpark cpu app both to no avail - in park controll when trying to apply the new settings I am greeted with the following error: "ERROR changing Power Profile parameters. You may have insufficient rights! - Are you running as a Limited User?

In the unpark cpu app it only detects the unparked cores for that moment in time and any changes I make do not seem to take effect.

I have also tried the registry edit where you search for the following key "0cc5b647-c1df-4637-891a-dec35c318583"

There after the thread advises that you set the MinValue and MaxValue both to 0 - for every occurance of this key - The trouble is that in Windows 10 the MinValue and MaxValue only appear on two occurances for this key which are both already set to 0 -

I can only assume that Microsoft has changed the registry with regards to core parking as for every other occurance of this key there are other weird registry entries that I dont feel comfortable editing and not the MinValue/Max Value that one would expect to see.

I would really love some help with this issue as not being able to un park my cores in Windows 10 is a real annoyance, especially when running games like Battlefield 4.

Specifications:
Windows 10 Pro 64Bit
Gigabyte UD3H z77
intel i5 3570k O/C 4.5
X2 MSI GTX 670 Power Edition SLI
2TB mechanical storage


 

CreatuRe64

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Hi,

Well when I go into resource manager and select the cpu tab, my 4 cores pop up and I can see windows parking my cores at its leisure -
 

CreatuRe64

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Hi,

Thanks for your comment, I wish it was the solution though - :(

I have set it to high performence but 3/4 cores are still parked at any one time on resource manager even with high performence as active :(

I really would like to find a solution
 

bazzarooney

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I did a good bit of searching on other boards and that's all I could come up with. There are various issues with Nvidia and AMD drivers that could cause frame rate drops but for cores I'm at a loss. Have you look at the process in task manager and made sure that it's not been locked to a core. You could also try seting the process to run high priority.
 

CreatuRe64

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Hi, Thanks but this is the 2nd of the two apps I was talking about in my description - it runs but it has no effect - windows still shows that the cores are parked - see link - http://postimg.org/image/seit09hmj/




 

Kent Ferguson

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you must have an error in your power profiles, maybe you should run system file checker.
i am on Win10 x64 with an i7 2600 and no cores are parked as i type here and i am on normal Power Profile.
although that utility says that they should park when under 5% load.
 

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Thnx Kent...seems Windows 10 parks them at 5% changing the power setting to 100% unparks the cores...personally using a desktop I went to Hi Performance and it now fires on all cylinders and is no worse for the wear.

 

Kent Ferguson

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Parking Cores is perfectly fine and they should park when in not in use or not required
i was answering the OP's post of the errors in their power profiles

why anyone at all wants to unpark inactive cores simply makes no sense..