There are problems with running the EEG Monitor software on Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD Atlon X2 processors. The graphic processing of the amplifier data of the monitor will distrube by mouse movements. This has to do with multi-core architecture and Hyper-Threading technology.

Braintronics is working on a solution.

For the moment there is a solution to solve most of the problems (not all) The program to use for this is Imagecfg.exe. You can find it on the web or get it off of a Windows 2000 or Windows XP Server Resource Kit.

Place this tool in the same directory where also TCPIP_EEG_Monitor.exe is located.

Imagecfg.exe will work with Windows XP(32 bit and 64 bit), Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and hopefully Windows Vista. It is a permanent change to the file, so make a backup before testing.

To set a process's affinity use "imagecfg -a 0xn [File Path] [File Name]

Replace n with the CPU you want the process to use.

1 = CPU0
2 = CPU1
4 = CPU2
8 = CPU3

So if you wanted to set:

C:\Program files\BRAINTRONICS\TCPIP_EEG_Monitor.exe to use the second CPU(CPU1) it would look like this:

imagecfg -a 0x2 C:\Program files\BRAINTRONICS\TCPIP_EEG_Monitor.exe

For dual core or dual CPU users both CPUs will perform equally, but with HyperThreading enabled systems the first CPU (CPU0) is faster, because the 2nd CPU is just a virtual CPU recycling unused cycles from the first CPU.

All the software on this page is only tested in a Windows XP environment. Running these software programs under a Windows Vista Operating System will give problems and is not recomended.