My guess is it's something else entirely specific to that system. Really weird to just single out many cores as the cause. It is also just one application that

My guess is it's something else entirely specific to that system. Really weird to just single out many cores as the cause. It is also just one application that barely has anything to do with windows anyway. There has never been a lack of multiple-cpus nor many-cores (and 16 isn't even many) on windows as the post implies either.