Issue with core utilization

[LeFrostiPine]

Good evening! Recently I've been tinkering around with my HP Victus to work better with some videogames. When I decided to check my CPU and to see what cores I have (to also see if all of them are enabled in order to boost performance), according to CPU-Z and Task Manager, I only have 2 cores. According to HP's and Intel's website, my 12th gen core should have 8 cores with 12 threads. Besides checking BIOs to see if there are any settings I can adjust, I went into msConfig and it also showed only two cores. Is the computer hiding it? Or am I hard locked from messing with such settings. Thanks in advance! 

[NonSequitur777]

@LeFrostiPine,

Welcome to our HP Community forum!

You are correct: an Intel Core i5-12450H has a total of 8-Cores and 12-Threads.

Please type in config in your lower Windows search bar, and click on the System Configuration app.

Click on the "Boot" tab, and, since we are here anyway, enable (☑) the "No GUI boot" option, and set "Timeout:" at 3 (seconds).

Click on the "Advanced options..." tab, and if "Number of processors:" is checked off, un-check it, do Apply and OK, and restart your PC.  Then return to the Advanced options and click on the "v" menu and you should see 12 -select that.  Same story: Apply, OK, OK and restart your PC.

Next, apply all of the Windows optimization steps as outlined in this YouTube instructional video: 🔧 How to Optimize Windows 10 For GAMING & Performance in 2019 The Ultimate Updated GUIDE.  Only thing you should do differently is found at timestamp 17:20, where instead of seven f's, you should type in eight f's, like so: ffffffff

Yes, I know -it says this is for Windows 10, but it applies just the same for Windows 11.

Let's start with this and then see if this changes (fixes) things for you.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777