(Howto) Running TimeShift on Windows 10 (64 bit) on 4+ cores

[Sick System™]

Hey there. Here is a little workaround for running Timeshift on a 64 bit machine, which in general seems to have problems if you have 6 cores or 12 threads:

1. on command line run with administrator privileges

bcdedit /copy {current} /d "Windows 10 with 6 cores"

which makes a second boot menu entry based on your actual one

2. run msconfig.exe

3. go to "Start" and choose your newly created entry

4. go to advanced options and click "number of processors" (or similar, my system is German). Then choose 6 or less. I've chosen 6

5. save and restart. On Start choose the newly created entry

6. try running Timeshift

7. optional: for easy managing boot menu entries you may use the program "EasyBCD". With it you can manage some things like the time how long boot menu shows up. It is good if you are not familar to bcdedit command! BE CAREFUL WHEN MODIFYING BOOT MANAGER!

For me it works and I think it will work on older Windows Versions too.

Sorry for my English.

I have an i7-5820K ... with 12 threads TimeShift won't run. But it runs with 6.

Alternative way for AMD Users (thx to deaconblue)
Use AMD Ryzen Master Tool and limit to a max. core count of 8 (without Multithreading).

[gl1tch batatinha]

man, please, i'm brazilian, can you help me??

[Sick System™]

Sorry, only speak German and English ...

[gl1tch batatinha]

ok, but my windows is 10, it works??

[Sick System™]

Yes, if you follow these steps it should work. At least it is one possible solution.

What's your PC set up? What CPU do you have?

[Omega_Zeta]

hey man no offense but this method sort of broke my pc now it won take a wired or wireless connection

[synrgy87]

Originally posted by Pandafudgefreak:

hey man no offense but this method sort of broke my pc now it won take a wired or wireless connection

All this does is limit the available CPU cores, it shouldnt effect wifi or wired networking at all

[Sick System™]

Sorry to hear that, hope you manage it. But this shouldn't effect any other hardware beside CPU

[synrgy87]

What works for me is to run it in windows 7 compatibility mode, and run as administrator.

[d0x360]

just go into your bios and disable cores or multithreading

[™Mr.Cream™ ANZUS.LIFE]

I basically have a Ryzen 1800x, 24 gb of ddr4 3000mhz ram, 8gb msi rx 480, and 4 hard drives 1 crucial 500gb ssd, 1 kingston 128gb ssd, a toshiba 3 tb hdd, and a western digital 2 terabyte. My motherboard is asrock x370 taichi. The simple solution was for me to go into the bios and disable multi threading in favor of single thread BAM worked liek a charm.

[Sick System™]

Yes, this also works. But this solution here works without disabling it in BIOS. Both correct :)

[Malex]

It didn't work i did everything you said but nothing happened the same problem the screen flushed then disappeared. I have Windows 10 i7-4510U. The only thing is different is that i choosed 4 cores after creating the copy version because there was no 6 cores there was only 1,2,3,4. Can you tell me what should I do please.

[Sick System™]

Originally posted by Kotomine Kirei:

It didn't work i did everything you said but nothing happened the same problem the screen flushed then disappeared. I have Windows 10 i7-4510U. The only thing is different is that i choosed 4 cores after creating the copy version because there was no 6 cores there was only 1,2,3,4. Can you tell me what should I do please.

Yeah, the mentioned way is not a solution for your CPU. You only have 2/4 core/threads but this solution adresses CPUs that have at least 6/12 cores/threads.

[donb3x]

No need to go and change the way the whole OS runs. All you need to do is change the process affinity of the game.

One way to do this is to make a desktop shortcut for the game and then add

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity X

in front of it, where X is a hexadecimal value that determines on which cores you want the game to run on, which you can determine from this table[blogs.msdn.microsoft.com].

For example, if you want to run TimeShift on the first 6 cores you can make a shortcut with the following target

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 0x3f path_to_steam_folder\steamapps\common\TimeShift\bin\TimeShift.exe

Remember to change path_to_steam_folder with the parent folder of your steamapps folder, which by default is the same folder where you installed Steam.

You can also use different methods, as described on PC Gaming Wiki[pcgamingwiki.com].

[Sick System™]

Originally posted by donb3x:

No need to go and change the way the whole OS runs. All you need to do is change the process affinity of the game.

One way to do this is to make a desktop shortcut for the game and then add

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity X

in front of it, where X is a hexadecimal value that determines on which cores you want the game to run on, which you can determine from this table[blogs.msdn.microsoft.com].

For example, if you want to run TimeShift on the first 6 cores you can make a shortcut with the following target

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 0x3f path_to_steam_folder\steamapps\common\TimeShift\bin\TimeShift.exe

Remember to change path_to_steam_folder with the parent folder of your steamapps folder, which by default is the same folder where you installed Steam.

You can also use different methods, as described on PC Gaming Wiki[pcgamingwiki.com].

Nope. At least for Timeshift it doesn't work. I just tried with affinity F, game crashes after builing shaders. I guess it has to do something with number of recognized "real" CPU cores, and not number of assinged cores.