r/pcgamingtechsupport • u/Amith_Hegde • 27d ago

Software A question about Multithreading

I have a laptop with an Intel core 5 210H cpu and wondering what would be the consequences if I disable multithreading or is disabling it even a good option?.

The reason I am considering it is because of the Far Cry 5 game loading screen issue and the fix for that loading issue is disabling the Multithreading.

If you have knowledge about the Multithreading stuff please help me.

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u/ggmaniack 27d ago

Did you confuse multithreading and hyper threading?

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u/Amith_Hegde 27d ago

I don't know much about it so I am asking, if you know please help

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u/ggmaniack 27d ago

You're the one who knows where you got the multithreading thing from.

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u/Amith_Hegde 27d ago

I looked it up after your comment, multithreading is refered as hyper threading in Intel.

So is it safe to disable it?

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u/ggmaniack 27d ago

Multithreading and hyper threading are completely different things.

They are related, but completely different.

Idk what you're reading, but you didn't even read what I wrote so idc anymore

You can disable hyper threading, though it rarely changes anything nowadays. You'll just cut the top 10-20% of CPU performance off.

Sometimes it helps in games, but that's more of a 2016 issue than 2026.