Questions about the Pentium 4 3.06GHz, anyone know?

[Compddd]

Ok I just got a 3.06 p4, in my device manager under CPU's in WindowsXP Pro it says there are 2 3.06's, is this the hyperthreading taking affect and acting like theres 2 CPU's?

Also when I go to start up Asheron's Call (a over 3 year old game) it pops up a 3d initilization error, but I just close it and I can play the game fine, I never got that error on my 2.4 P4, could it be the game has trouble with hyper threading maybe? Also I can play all my newer games just fine, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal II Awakening.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated, thanks!

 

[nick1985]

i hope you didnt expect a performance boost from HT

 

[Compddd]

no where in my post did I say I expected a performance boost from hyper threading

Can anyone answer my questions?

 

[Wolfsraider]

Originally posted by: Compddd
Ok I just got a 3.06 p4, in my device manager under CPU's in WindowsXP Pro it says there are 2 3.06's, is this the hyperthreading taking affect and acting like theres 2 CPU's?

yes hyper threading will list 2 processors

Originally posted by: Compddd
Also when I go to start up Asheron's Call (a over 3 year old game) it pops up a 3d initilization error, but I just close it and I can play the game fine, I never got that error on my 2.4 P4, could it be the game has trouble with hyper threading maybe? Also I can play all my newer games just fine, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal II Awakening.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated, thanks!

its possible but i am unsure

but as it is running two processors it woul make some sense

a good place to do some research is 2cpu formus as they can answer all this and much more

hth

mike

 

[Compddd]

I did that just now heh, problem didn't go away.

Here its stuff from the error thing generated from WindowsXP

Error signature

AppName acd3ds~1.exe AppVer: 1.0.0.0 ModName: cpuinf32.dll
ModVer: 0.0.0.0 Offset: 00001bf0


Anyone have any ideas on what any of that suggests?

 

[bigshooter]

Try downloading any updates you find from intel. cpuinf32.dll is a library used to detect cpu speed, capabilities, etc... , possibly it can't determine whta kind of processor you have. You can also search the web and try downloading a new copy of cpuinf32.dll from sites taht host it. You may have a corrupt one.

 

[human2k]

man you really are mr money bags, with your p4 3.06GHZ and all, lemme guess Radeon 9700 PRO also right?

 

[Compddd]

well Xp detects the CPU and so does my BIOS and it shows 2 CPU's in the device manager and I can run all my other games just fine. So Im correct in assuming its not a bad CPU right? Also where do you think I could DL the new .dll for that file?


-Edit- ya I do have a 9700 Pro

 

[SexyK]

Originally posted by: nick1985
i hope you didnt expect a performance boost from HT

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1746&p=22

Anyway, I think everyone's dead on in their replies. Doesn't sound like HT is causing the problems with AC - I'd try updating cpuinf32 and see if that resolves it. Of couse, you could always just reinstall WinXP and have it over with

 

[Compddd]

Update, well cpuinf32.dll isn't a system file in WindowsXP, I did a file search and only 2 things had it in them, Asheron's Call and Half Life. I Deleted it from my Asheron's Call directory and poof no more error, went in game and everything was fine.

Thanks again to all the great Anandtech board people for helping me diagnose and fix yet another comp problem, you guys always come through