Re: COD stuttering

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:55:05 -0600, "turk" <turk96@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"noman" <no_m_an@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ic9rk354o0eqs60p2oglm4saaiaatlth7g@xxxxxxxxxx

Get the "Dual core optimizer" and "Dual Core driver" for WindowsXP
from the link below
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_13118,00.html

Windows Vista already has proper dual-core support but XP needs these
drivers for better performance.

It's not a performance issue, usually. It's just that older games don't run
well with dual core and you need to run some of them with a single core
instead of two.


The reason some of the old games didn't run well, was because their
main game-timing heartbeat got messed up. So even though the CPU was
very fast, you could see stuttering in the games. The above-mentioned
AMD drivers fixed this issue for lot of games.

In addition there is an XP patch for some of these issues at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=C2AB5A48-8240-4934-BBD8-34FB8A0FCE3B

CPU affinity is the last thing one should try, not just because doing
that is a hassle, but the fact that once patched, XP runs most of
these problematic games without stuttering.
--
Noman
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