Performance Module only showing a few cores being used

[Ben Chase]

I've got "Use Multiprocessing Engine" and "Plug-in Load Balancing" selected in Preferences, but the Performance Module is only showing a few cores being used. Is that because only a few cores are needed for my project or because something's wrong and they're not balancing correctly? Thanks for any insight you can provide.
 

[Promidi]

In preferences | Audio | Configuration File try adjusting the following:

EnableSetThreadIdealProcessor = False
MixThreadCount = {number of cores minus 1}

You might like to exit Cakewalk by Bandlab, go to the following folder and make a copy of the AUD.INI file before doing this: %appdata%\Cakewalk\Cakewalk Core

[Ben Chase]

Thanks for the suggestion, Promidi. I posed the question to Jim Roseberry of Studio Cat, whom I just bought the PC from, and he said that this is expected behavior for 12th Gen Intel processors: