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On 1/25/2012 2:10, Invisible wrote:
> Actually, that reminds me: Ever since my PC went dual-core, The Settlers
> will no longer run. Nothing I do seems to fix it. When you try to start the
> game, it just summarily crashes with an obscure error message.
Have you tried setting the thread affinity to just one core?
I've heard of a couple of old games like this, and just locking it to one
core fixes it.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
People tell me I am the counter-example.
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On 27/01/2012 04:23 AM, Darren New wrote:
> On 1/25/2012 2:10, Invisible wrote:
>> Actually, that reminds me: Ever since my PC went dual-core, The Settlers
>> will no longer run. Nothing I do seems to fix it. When you try to
>> start the
>> game, it just summarily crashes with an obscure error message.
>
> Have you tried setting the thread affinity to just one core?
>
> I've heard of a couple of old games like this, and just locking it to
> one core fixes it.
For a while CSS would be all jittery unless I pinned it to just one
core, and then it would run fine. (They eventually fixed that.)
The trouble is, when I launch The Settlers, it crashes in about 4 ms -
far too quick for me to open Task Manager and fiddle with the affinity
settings. Unless there's some how to specify such settings before a
program starts?
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On 27/01/2012 9:30 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Unless there's some how to specify such settings before a program starts?
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/start-an-application-assigned-to-a-specific-cpu-in-windows-vista/
I checked it works in Win 7
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Regards
Stephen
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On 27/01/2012 10:40 AM, Stephen wrote:
> On 27/01/2012 9:30 AM, Invisible wrote:
>> Unless there's some how to specify such settings before a program starts?
>
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http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/start-an-application-assigned-to-a-specific-cpu-in-windows-vista/
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> I checked it works in Win 7
Interesting. It seems that option was only added in Vista. (I.e., it
doesn't exist in XP and earlier.)
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>> I checked it works in Win 7
>
> Interesting. It seems that option was only added in Vista. (I.e., it
> doesn't exist in XP and earlier.)
Also, you can apparently use PsExec from System Internals, and that (I
imagine) works on any version of Windows.
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>>> For example, the entry-level video card they recommended was the
>>> GeForce FX 5700, which had a street price at the end of 2003 of US$199.
>>> The recommended GeForce 6800 was sub-$300 when it came out.
>>>
>>> Back in 2004, that was a considerable expense for a video card.
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>> Worked just fine with my GeForce 6600, which was about £60.
>>
>> (That's not GeForce 6600 GT or 6600 Ultra, just a vanilla 6600.)
>
> In 2004 when the game was released?
I don't recall what year I bought it. HL2 wasn't all that old at the
time, although it probably wasn't release day.
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