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A possible way to increase performance in the game

By haemrit

Recently discovered that you can use the affinity in the task manager to increase game's performance, so let's check it out:

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11 Mar, 2021 @ 10:43am

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Start up Terraria and minimize it (Note: only works for CPU's that have more than one core)

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Start up Terraria and minimize it (Note: only works for CPU's that have more than one core)

After you launched the game, minimize the game's window and open the task manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc
Click on "More details" down below the task manager if you never opened it, then click on "Details" and search for the Terraria.exe process, right click it and press on "Set affinity"
After that the "Processor affinity" window opens, and then you need to uncheck the first CPU, basically named "CPU 0", then close the task manager, and come back to your game, and try if that helped.

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If it helped you, you're gonna have to uncheck the first core everytime you start the game, so keep that in mind. (there's programs that can automate that process, but i'm not that smart to do it so..)

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/kknoname 18 Aug, 2024 @ 3:34pm

/kknoname 18 Aug, 2024 @ 3:34pm

𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑑𝑒: <3
𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠, ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑦

haemrit [author] 30 Sep, 2021 @ 4:01pm

funny imag

yareli 29 Sep, 2021 @ 10:50pm

yoruichi lol

haemrit [author] 24 Mar, 2021 @ 8:18am

thank you smug cheese

smug cheese 24 Mar, 2021 @ 6:33am

horpy i love your pfp

haemrit [author] 21 Mar, 2021 @ 11:34am

oh damn, really?
i have no ping issues while doing this in multiplayer

BlueStaggo 21 Mar, 2021 @ 10:55am

Warning: If you do this and you want to play multiplayer, you'll get high ping. Found that out myself. Great tip otherwise for those who don't go online much!

haemrit [author] 18 Mar, 2021 @ 2:20am

you can check it by right pressing "Windows button+R", and type in "msconfig", after the dialogue window opens up, go to "Boot" and press "Advanced options...", there check the box named "Number of processors" and you can see how many you have, and also you can select the max number used by the system

Aiden8rr 17 Mar, 2021 @ 6:01pm

What if you don't know how many cores you have?

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