How's a Windows app getting CPU info? (Wine too)

[Espionage724]

I have a i5-8400H with Hyperthreading disabled in BIOS; OS and lscpu report 4 cores, dmesg reports 4, and htop/GUI task managers have 4 cores.

World of Warcraft reports differently though in cpu.log (reports the same native Win10 and Wine Linux/FreeBSD):

5/30 21:22:57.660  vendor: 1
5/30 21:22:57.660  features: 00000057
5/30 21:22:57.660  sockets: 1
5/30 21:22:57.660  cores: 8
5/30 21:22:57.660  processors: 4
5/30 21:22:57.660  vendor id string= GenuineIntel
5/30 21:22:57.660  standard (22): 1b=02100800 1d=bfebfbff 4a=1C004121
5/30 21:22:57.660  extended (8): 1c=00000121 1d=2c100000 8c=00000000
5/30 21:22:57.660  processor brand string= Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400H CPU @ 2.50GHz

How's it getting cores: 8?

 

[Alain De Vos]

cpu-x , it exists for freebsd & windows

 

[homeadm]

On NT it's in system variables.

set | findstr PROCESSOR

 

[monwarez]

What does this command output ?
hwloc-ls

Wine use hwloc to parse the cpu configuration