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john...@frontier.com (John Lewis) looked up from reading the entrails
of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

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

That would be difficult since I don't own that game.

Xocyll