Hey guys, i have finally got the latest Houdini installed and downloaded without corruption. (woohoo)

But i was disappointed to see no Multithreading in Houdini.
With all of the new machines being 2 to 8 cores, i would of thought Houdini would be multithreaded, and at the very least Mantra should be.

But for those who have a dualcore of more, i noticed you can set the affinity to Houdini to CPU 01 and set Mantra at CPU 00.
(windowsXP)

This way you can achieve a manual multithreading and use 100% of the CPU's instead of the default 50%. Setting Mantra to 01 isn't as good because it resets the affinity everytime Mantra is called and freed.

Hope it helps somebody out there.
Still would be nice to see Multithreading and 64bit versions soon.

Mantra by itself is multi-threaded. However, in Apprentice, it's disabled.

http://www.odforce.net/wiki/index.php/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#Q:__How_does_Houdini_use_multiple_CPUs.3F_Does_it_multithread.3F [odforce.net]