Athlon64 X2 dual core

[c0ncept]

Anyone else running an athlon64 X2 processor and encountering trouble running games? I play LineageII and on my new system I constantly get a "negative delta time" error causing the game to crash. After the crash I am unable to reload the game until I reboot the computer.

I checked out AMD's support forums, just wanted to get some opinions here as well. Some suggestions were made to adjust the affinity setting in the task manager but I am unable to do that so far.

I'm just hoping AMD is aware of the problem and is working on a solution. Anyone having issues?

 

[fatty4ksu]

Lots of problems. Great w/encoding tho.

 

[snedzad]

I don't have a dual core proc, but in your case I would try to disable one core in BIOS (if you have this option, of course).

If you encounter same problem again, then we can say that CPU is not cause of the problem.

Pozdrav

 

[fatty4ksu]

Then why buy a dual-core then?

 

[smthmlk]

you probably want to download some utiltity to automatically set the affinity of your game process to one of the procs or something. i dunno the details as i dont have a dualcore system, but ive read about it in some places. maybe this will point you in the right direction. good luck

 

[snedzad]

I tried to isolate problem, to see if DC is making such issue. Of course with dual core, current gaming apps see no benefits, only multitasking is heavily improved, not to forget multithreaded apps.

Pozdrav

 

[c0ncept]

Originally posted by: snedzad
I don't have a dual core proc, but in your case I would try to disable one core in BIOS (if you have this option, of course).

If you encounter same problem again, then we can say that CPU is not cause of the problem.

Pozdrav

Any idea how to disable one of the cores?

 

[Hacp]

Anyone have problems with warcraft3? I constantly get speedups heh... Kinda annoying.

 

[mOeeOm]

Ahhh I love my 3700+ SD, no problems with any games Anyways, to solve those problems you have to disable one of the cores, this problem happens in L2, Empire earth II, warcraft 3, lets keep increasing the list

 

[c0ncept]

Ok fair enough how do I disable one of the cores?

 

[Duvie]

hit ctrl-alt-delete or the windows key on the keyboard....go into task mangaer---find game exe running (probably showing 50% usage) and right click---set affinity---uncheck one of the cpus...


I can confirm that Flatout needed affinity set to 1 cpu or it would cause problems......Need4 speed 2 underground worked fine with both cpus set...

 

[thescreensavers]

downlaod the dual core cpu driver you dont have it thats why.http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Tec...alResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html
look down thers for windows 64 bit and windows xp

 

[c0ncept]

Originally posted by: Duvie
hit ctrl-alt-delete or the windows key on the keyboard....go into task mangaer---find game exe running (probably showing 50% usage) and right click---set affinity---uncheck one of the cpus...


I can confirm that Flatout needed affinity set to 1 cpu or it would cause problems......Need4 speed 2 underground worked fine with both cpus set...

I've tried to adjust the affinity while running Lineage II and I get an "access denied" error, and it does not let me change it. I've checked it under different applications such as Ventrilo and I've gotten into the menu to deselect a core.

Is there a way to get around the "access denied?"

 

[c0ncept]

Also would it be possible to disable one of the processors altogether?

 

[thescreensavers]

I had the same problem just downlaod the amd CPU drivers http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/Tec...alResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html

Its an .exe file

 

[c0ncept]

Downloaded and installed the X2 driver for windows x64, still getting the error.

 

[tw1164]

have you reported the problem to the game company?

 

[c0ncept]

Yeah but they do not support windows x64 so they will not troubleshoot with me

 

[wuggle]

Is this a fresh install of Windows?

 

[darkcyber]

I'm running a dual core 4400+ and have no problems with anything so far. I play Halo mainly and Half Life...but no game problems.

 

[c0ncept]

Yeah entire computer is brand new. It sounds like the affinity setting change will do the trick, just the computer won't let me access it for that program. I may just "downgrade" to an amd athlon64 4000+ san diego and use windows XP pro if I can't get this fixed.

 

[c0ncept]

Originally posted by: smthmlk
you probably want to download some utiltity to automatically set the affinity of your game process to one of the procs or something. i dunno the details as i dont have a dualcore system, but ive read about it in some places. maybe this will point you in the right direction. good luck

Anyone have a suggestion for such a utility?

 

[Redox]

Hope this helps ...

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1662743&enterthread=y

I've had similar problems with some games (Half Life 2, Far Cry especially)

 

[MichaelD]

This is SO not good news for me. I didn't realize the X2 was having so many issues.

HL2 and FC are 2 out of the 4 games I'm currently playing. I will just have to hope for the best.

 

[Redox]

Actually, since finding this handy little utility, I have had no problems running these problem games in single core mode and they still run very well. The A64 X2 4400 is a 2.2 GHz processor and I'm running it with a 7800 gtx. As an example, I can run Far Cry in single core mode with HDR lighting enabled and 8xAF at 1280x1024 with good performance.

Note that not all games have problems and most are running just fine. It's just a nice workaround to have handy until there are more patches available. In hindsight, it wouldn't have stopped me from buying dual core as I feel it is a more versatile processor for the future.