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On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 06:20:48 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net>
wrote:

>Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the
>porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>
>>On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 13:44:31 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@kingston.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>What video card type do you have  nVidia or ATi?
>>
>>Nvidia. Though I don't think the issue is video card related. Probably
>>has more to do with codecs then anything. I never tried too hard to
>>fix it. I've seen the videos enough times already and I could see them
>>as often as I wished to on youtube anyway.
>>
>>>I've never disabled cores for any game.
>>
>>Consider yourself lucky. I never had to until System Shock 2 came
>>along. You can turn off the extra cores but there is a patch that does
>>it for you automatically. I think Thief has one as well. I needed this
>>patch or the game would just keep locking up.

The game executable can be forced to run on only one CPU core by using
"imagecfg.exe".to fix the Affinity.  However, if the exec embeds
copy-protection code, the resultant image is highly likely not to
fuction correctly.

>Ah, maybe things work for me since my cores tend to be in use all the
>time running BOINC and maybe SS2 isn't getting affected by them due to
>that or something.
>
>I have to shut down BOINC for Skyrim and/or for video editing of large
>textures since it slows things down considerably, but I usually leave it
>running - certainly for older games it has almost no effect on gameplay.
>

Try running the original BF1942 ( with any or all official patches )
on your multicore machine. See if you can make it run more than 10
minutes.

John Lewis

>Xocyll