Any way to turn off one of the A64 X2 cores?

[BroadbandGamer]

I think it's my X2. I'm getting stuttering like you wouldn't believe. It feels like the two cores can't decide who's in charge.

Thanks for the help!

 

[BroadbandGamer]

Looks like it was my X2. I used the Affinity thing in Task Manager and set the game to CPU0 and it runs fine.

I guess EA, being the cheap bastards they are, doesn't want to patch the game to work with the X2.

 

[nitromullet]

Try the MSFT hotfix, there is a link to it in this thread:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1767571&enterthread=y

 

[fatty4ksu]

AMD has done NOTHING to help w/this problem.


All you can do is constantly change the affinity yourself

f-ing ridiculous for a 500 dollar CPU. Just childish imo.

 

[stevty2889]

Are you running XP with SP2? Do you have the X2 driver installed? Have you tried the microsoft hotfix? It's not an AMD problem, it's the way windows handles dual cores. I had none of these problems with my X2 with just the X2 driver installed. Even the microsoft hotfix didn't fix all my problems with my Pentium-D on the other hand.

 

[fatty4ksu]

Yes to all.

I expect AMD to put out a patch so games run correctly.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Originally posted by: fatty4ksu
Yes to all.

I expect AMD to put out a patch so games run correctly.

Again, this isn't AMDs problem. You would experience the same thing on an Intel dual core system.

This problem is strictly the software developers.

As to whether you want to blame MS or EA is up to you though.

 

[Rottie]

Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy

Originally posted by: fatty4ksu
Yes to all.

I expect AMD to put out a patch so games run correctly.

Again, this isn't AMDs problem. You would experience the same thing on an Intel dual core system.

This problem is strictly the software developers.

As to whether you want to blame MS or EA is up to you though.

can he blame Linux too? And why bother buying EA and or own MS OS if he is not happy with it?

 

[PetNorth]

Originally posted by: fatty4ksu
AMD has done NOTHING to help w/this problem.


All you can do is constantly change the affinity yourself

f-ing ridiculous for a 500 dollar CPU. Just childish imo.

TROLL

 

[Capt Caveman]

I've yet to have an issue w/ any of the games I play. Must be a specific games coding and not the cpu.

 

[Gamingphreek]

This has absolutely nothing to do with either AMD or Intel. It is Windows pitiful scheduler that is causing problems. The hotfix is supposed to make it so you dont have to set the affinity everytime. Try that.

What is it hitching in now. If it is multiplayer, are you sure there aren't any tasks that will eat up network bandwidth running? Are you sure its not your internet connection? If it is single player, again are there any tasks running which might demand some attention (NortonAV, McAfee, Zone Alarm...)

-Kevin