Boltek Lightning/2000 - Manual (Page 166)

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It is not normally necessary to check this box.
Use Turbo Mode
This option is only available if the computer running
Lightning/2000 has multiple processors (or “cores”).
Check this option to enable Lightning/2000 to query the
Boltek StormTracker hardware as often as your computer will
allow.
When operating in turbo mode, Lightning/2000 creates a
separate process that does nothing but query the lightning
detection hardware. If you are using a computer with
multiple processors (or “cores”), checking this option will
allow the hardware access to proceed totally independently.
When using the StormTracker PCI or LD-350 hardware,
Lightning/2000 will operate temporarily in turbo mode while
time-consuming operations are being performed, such as
writing a screen capture image to a file. This allows the
detection of lightning to proceed even when Lightning/2000
is performing other operations.
Even if this box is not checked, the lightning detection
hardware is queried often enough to rarely if ever miss any
detections. However with this box checked, the hardware is
queried so often that missing even a single stroke out of
thousands would be virtually impossible.
The downside of checking this box is that querying the
lightning detection hardware so often can put an unnecessary
load on the CPU.
Never Use Turbo Mode
Check this option to prevent Lightning/2000 from utilizing a
separate process for hardware access at any time, even when
time-consuming operations are taking place that prevent
lightning from being detected.