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FSXTimes AMC app for iPhone and iPad


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Utilities Reference
Developer: Man kit Tsui
Free
Current version: 1.5, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 28 Jul 2018
App size: 2.79 Mb

Affinity Mask is generally recognized as one of the most useful features that allows flightsimmers to improve system performances by altering the combination of running CPU cores assigned to the simulator.

Heres my Affinity Mask Calculator for iOS devices.

Using the calculator is simple and intuitive. It has two functions:

1) CPU-to-Affinity Mask

This function allows you to select the CPUs you want to assign to FSX or Prepar3D based on the number of core (dual-, quad-, hexa- or octa-) of your processor. The Affinity Mask value in decimal will be calculated accordingly.

2) Affinity Mask-to-CPU

If you heard from other simmers that a specific Affinity Mask value might be good to your system. You can enter the value via the number pad of this function to revert the value into actual CPU representations.

Do note that no matter which type of processor you are using. It is recommended to keep CPU 0 (with Hyper-Threading DISABLED) or CPU 0 and CPU 1 (with Hyper-Threading ENABLED) ACTIVE at all time.

It is because these two CPUs are generally involved in many types of graphic renderings in the simulator. Disabling them is very likely leading to blurred images or sluggish image refreshing.

More information can be found on FSX Times ( https://fsxtimes.wordpress.com )