The XP wil support SMP , but for aplications that use only one cpu the XP/w2k3 try to balance the load, I use a second monitor to run task manager duringn testing and the load balancing really sucks.
Soemtimes you have 100% spikes in each procesor and sometimes the game run on only one cpu...
The problem lies in that the windows NT kernel has been developed, since 3.1, with SMP designed for muti-threaded applications that are less demanding on actual CPU power rather than file and ram I/O power. Database applications, Application Serving, and Media Serving is where the Windows Kernel...
the administrative client is for administer the computer that have the WSRM service.
The WSRM is an aplication to shows that in the corrent state of OS and single treaded games the dual cores needs more than the OS suckbalancing the treads.
I finish my research on CPU affinity performance for games on dual core or dual CPU systems.
I use windows w2k3 enterprise because is the only available OS that can run the windows resource manager. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/downloads/wsrm.mspx
To check the process...