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Re: Wrong CPU Speed

#191455
From: JJ
Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 10:22
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§ï×darts wrote:
> On 12-Apr-2009, "goPostal" <agutgopostal@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I had pretty good luck running the UT process as windows98 too. It stops a
>> lot of that.
> 
> I need a how-to on that, I think.
> 
> As for Visene's suggestion for adding cpu speed to the shortcut...  I
> thought it worked.  Then my character would get stuck.  I could shoot, but
> not move.  It was sort of like when you run into someone who has spawned
> when the server has spawn protection.  You get stuck.  Or like some maps
> that have steps too high to run over or a corner in a wall that catches you.
>  CPU Speed in the shortcut made the game run "right" but for the getting
> stuck part.
> 
> I had better give a little info:  This is an XP machine with a Q6600 clocked
> to 8X400 for 3.2 Ghz and has 2GB DDR2 @ 1066.  I'm running an 8800GTS512.  -
>  Some of the problems feel like lag, but I have a crazy amount of bandwidth
> and the server I play the most gives me around a 54 F6 ping.  When I added
> cpuspeed=3200, the game felt normal again like when I used to play from my
> older machines.  In practice session, everything is fine.  When I connected
> to a server, everything felt right for about a minute.  Every time I was on
> a slope, I would get stuck but I could move normally on any flat surface. 
> As far as I can tell, the servers I've been playing are running no UTDC, but
> might have some Pure 7 or 8 or whatever.  There are no unusual mods that I
> know of.
Here's a command line from my machine (x64-dual cpu 2.1 gig) running it 
in wine:

> taskset -c 1 wine /home/ve1jot/UnrealTournament/System/UnrealTournament.exe -CPUSPEED=2100

taskset limits it to one cpu...fixes freezing...
YOUR_NOSE
John
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