Core 2 Duo little problem

Hi

I gotta Core 2 Duo and it's working fine and all but in very some games it makes the game lag really much.

The games that had problems with my Core 2 Duo were:

STAR WARS Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy

[Starts laggin, and FPS drops down to 5 when sabers lock]

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - Double Agent

[Game runs in slowmotion and sound will desync]

How I temporarily fixed this:

Press ALT+Tab. Go to Taskmanager while the game is still running, go to Processes and "Right-Click" the game's .exe and then left click on Change Affinity (In my language Affiniteit Instellen) and disable one of the CPU's (0 or 1. Or 2 and/or 3 if you have Quad Core).

Then close Taskmanager and ALT+Tab back to the game and it should be fixed (At least that worked for me).

I did this trick a million times and I'm getting sick of it doing this manually. Does anyone know a program where you can add executables and set which or how many CPU's it will use?

NVM , read it wrong.

My PC is fine really it's just that some games can't handle Core 2 Duo's I also have this with Unreal (Yes the first game very old one) Which I can't even start and gives somekind of CPU error. Here are my specs anyway :P...

VideoCard: GeForce 8800 GT XFX Alpha Dog Edition (OC'd 600->700 MHz corespeed)

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 (OC'd 1.8->3.0 GHz)

Mb RAM: 2GB OCZ Dual-Channel Platinum

Motherboard: ASUS P5K-SE

But there's really nothing wrong with my hardware I heard that some games can't handle some CPU's very well.

If you do know such a program please post:)

I've never heard of people having to disable a core to make a game playable. Old apps usually will only use one core and the second will remain unused.

Are you sure your temps are okay and either your CPU or GPU aren't downclocking themselves because their too hot? Does the lag start right away, or after you've been playing for a while?

Like I said about STAR WARS, my FPS drops down to 5 when sabers hit eachother and also some other effects, and when I disable one of the cores, I don't have anymore FPS drops. Splinter Cell runs sometimes in slowmo, not always.

Yes my temperatures are fine. my VGA is about 55 which can reach 110 degrees celcius when it starts melting and my CPU is fine too like 35 degrees celcius and max is like 80 but mostly its like 48 when I'm running very graphical Games (Crysis for instance)

I know of no such program but like the other poster said sometimes they only need to use one core. For some reason its trying to use both , so when you turn one off everything is working. The chip should be doing that on its own though.

I do not know what controls that(chip or MOBO) but obviously that function is not working so something is going faulty.

That is a very nice overclock on that CPU however I'm wondering if you're having stability issues running the CPU that high. You should and run a stress test with Prime95 for at least 6 hours. If it's fine after then I really don't know what's wrong.silentsky

Yes my Stress test is fine, did it a month ago and yes with Prime95 and even running Orthos with it at the same time xD

So I gotta keep doing this trick manually :/

EDIT: Btw if you wanna know my 3DMark score too :P? my score was 12142 3DMarks running 3DMark06 on default settings

Lol just found a program on Google called "Affinity Changer" Here's a link to the forum where it's posted...

:arrow: Download Affinity Changer

[QUOTE="silentsky"]That is a very nice overclock on that CPU however I'm wondering if you're having stability issues running the CPU that high. You should and run a stress test with Prime95 for at least 6 hours. If it's fine after then I really don't know what's wrong.Shadow-909

Yes my Stress test is fine, did it a month ago and yes with Prime95 and even running Orthos with it at the same time xD

So I gotta keep doing this trick manually :/

EDIT: Btw if you wanna know my 3DMark score too :P? my score was 12142 3DMarks running 3DMark06 on default settings

Did you try backing off your CPU OC just to see if anything improves?

Also, What Operating System and Nvidia driver revision are you using?

The problem could be another piece of software installed on your system. A system with the latest motherboard and Nvidia Forceware drivers should pose no problem for a game like Jedi Academy. My Core2 6600 and Geforce 7900 GTO certainly doesn't have framerate issues. (I'm focusing on Jedi because I don't have the other game)

I did have a problem not too long ago where some OpenGL games performance was horrid. Don't know what caused it, but a re-install to a clean new directory (without old save games or config files) fixed it.

I use Windows XP Home Edition and my GeForce has the latest updates and these problems were already before overclocking them.Shadow-909

Maybe your RAM? Since RAM is a big part of your computer, it might be defective, try doing a memtest, search it on google and see if any errors show up.

The problem could be another piece of software installed on your system. A system with the latest motherboard and Nvidia Forceware drivers should pose no problem for a game like Jedi Academy. My Core2 6600 and Geforce 7900 GTO certainly doesn't have framerate issues. (I'm focusing on Jedi because I don't have the other game)

I did have a problem not too long ago where some OpenGL games performance was horrid. Don't know what caused it, but a re-install to a clean new directory (without old save games or config files) fixed it.

chefkw

I tried pretty much everything, Re-Installing the game, deleting .CFG files and reconfiguring them in the game, also tried re-updateing my Hardware but there were no new updates found so I have the latest ones.

Maybe your RAM? Since RAM is a big part of your computer, it might be defective, try doing a memtest, search it on google and see if any errors show up.

Taiko88

Lol you even read what I worte on the first post? xD... I wrote Core 2 Duo like 3 times, It's definitly my CPU. Just need a program where you can add executables so It will change It's Affinity for that .exe automatically.

BTW Forget the other program, It doesn't work I found some really convincing utilities and tricks...

:arrow: Another Program - "RunFirst"

:arrow: Get and Set CPU Affinity

Continue reading after step 5

:arrow: Task Assignment Manager

Task Assignment Manager is just some extra tool voor the normal Task Manager, but now you can make profiles.

When you have added you .exe's you need to keep to program running until you start the executable.

TNX for everyone's help!