CPU performance meter not showing up properly

Sonar can see as many cores as you have. Ive seen 8 cores and im sure it will see 16 cores. My 8.5 s's all 4 cores
Are you looking at the large transport? Do you have  multi processing enabled(im sure you do, cause you see 2 cores).

What does your task manager see??
What dos the large transport see?

Ah, you upgraded to Win7 64bit. Did you ever download and Motherboard drivers or see if your Mobo supports Win7 64bit??

Cj

CJays, thanks for the quick reply.  I was away on business and just got home to check my specs.

My motherboard is a TYAN S2927A2NRF Dual 1207(F) NVIDIA nForce Professional 3600 ATX Dual AMD Opteron.

I checked their website and the latest drivers they have for this is for Vista 64.  Should I install those?

My task managers sees 4 cores.  Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2214
shows up 4 times

My system says it's an ACPI x64-based PC. 

Inside Cakewalk I'm looking at the large transport and see 2 bars.  When I used to use XP64Pro with Sonar 8 I saw 4 bars.

Brundlefly,
If I don't see all 4 meters in the large transport, is it my motherboard that's a problem?  Do you think the Vista drivers will help?

Task manager shows all 4 cores, it doesn't tell me anything about sharing the load.  What feature inside of Windows can I run to find out if they're actually all being utilized?
 
The reason I'm stuck on them not displaying in sonar is because I feel like my performance has slowed down drastically from X64Pro to 7-64 which should be opposite.  I've got 16gb of ram so stuff should be happening at lightening speed  but I'm always watching the spinning circle when I try to save or process.

From the help file:
 

[WinCake]

CPUMeterMode=0

The value determines the CPU meter mode:

0 = The peak thread load is displayed as the bar and a yellow indicator shows the average of all

audio threads. This the default mode.

1 = The average audio thread load is displayed as the bar and a yellow indicator shows the peak

thread.

2 = A bar is shown for each audio thread. This is the same display as previous versions of SONAR.

I know this isn't a solution, but it might help debug things.   And this:
 

Initialization File Format

ThreadSchedulingModel=

<0 - 2>

Integer 1 This variable goes in the [Wave] section and controls

the interaction of the main audio thread and worker

threads on multiprocessor systems when the Use

Multiprocessing Engine option is enabled. Depending

on the system, a particular model may result in less

glitching and better overall performance. The values are

as follows:

0 = Same as previous versions of SONAR.

1 = (default) Better thread balance. Model is more

efficient and can provide cycles for other tasks.

2 = Additional worker thread is created. This may result

in improvement with Quad processor systems or higher.

Not recommended for Dual processor systems.
 

brundlefly

From the help file:   this line to the [WinCake] section of the Cakewalk.ini file: [WinCake] CPUMeterMode=0 The value determines the CPU meter mode: 0 = The peak thread load is displayed as the bar and a yellow indicator shows the average of all audio threads. This the default mode. 1 = The average audio thread load is displayed as the bar and a yellow indicator shows the peak thread. 2 = A bar is shown for each audio thread. This is the same display as previous versions of SONAR.

Hey Billy. I already posted that. But OP is saying even in the Large Transport, he only sees two of four "cores" (AMD). The CPUMeterMode setting should only affect the status bar.

 
I realized I pasted the wrong section - so I edited the message to include the cpu meter mode and the load balancing ini variable sections now.
 
Sorry to duplicate your info.
 
 

Ok, so here's the answer.....

Spoke with Tyan (manufacturer of my motherboard) and it's supposed to work with Windows 7-64.  However, after researching more, he said that Windows 7 Home Premium doesn't support quad core. 

If you read this thread you'll find out that not only is this true, but that Microsoft are a bunch of shady dingleberries that don't even tell you this on their website:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/fi-FI/w7itproinstall/thread/87466df9-706b-4f40-9de7-d2bf435088eb

Does anybody here have more than one processor (like 2 dual cores) running Windows 7-64?  What version of 7 are you using?

However, after researching more, he said that Windows 7 Home Premium doesn't support quad core. 

Home Premium supports processors with multiple logical cores, but not multiple physical CPUs. I'm gathering your AMD is really two dual-core processors. I should have picked that up from your original post. Kind of forgot Home Premium had that limitation. IIRC, the same has been true of all the non-"Pro" versions of Windows going back to XP.

headsnack


Ok, so here's the answer.....

Spoke with Tyan (manufacturer of my motherboard) and it's supposed to work with Windows 7-64.  However, after researching more, he said that Windows 7 Home Premium doesn't support quad core. 

If you read this thread you'll find out that not only is this true, but that Microsoft are a bunch of shady dingleberries that don't even tell you this on their website:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/fi-FI/w7itproinstall/thread/87466df9-706b-4f40-9de7-d2bf435088eb

Does anybody here have more than one processor (like 2 dual cores) running Windows 7-64?  What version of 7 are you using?

I'm using Win 7 Home Premium with a Q6600 quad core on an Intel DG 965 type Mobo and all of my cores are active and show in the large transport and all windows core monitoring. I would have to say Win 7 Home Premium does support Quad Core processing.