Issue with Dual Core / 64 bit proc.

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I noticed when I first started playing the game that some of the animations were excessivly fast. When I viewed the planets they would be rotating so fast they were just a blur. In the starship designer the ships would spin extremely fast, same happened when viewing the ship designs when choosing a race.

This seemed oddly familiar with a problem I encountered in the PC ports of the grand theft auto games. A solution on one of their forums was to start the game, alt-tab to the desktop, and then modify the processor affinity so that only 1 processor was associated with the game. I tried this with GalCivII, worked like a charm, all the animations returned to normal speed.

I am playing GalCivII on an AMD X2 3800+ with a 32 bit version of windows XP. I have updated the game to V1.0X, and my display drivers for my ATI X600 are fully up to date. I think there may be an issue playing your game on dual core PCs, something that would definately interfere with your goal of giving GalCivII maximum longevity. If you have any solution to this that doesn't involve an Alt-tab every time I boot the game, I'd really appreciate it.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It works just fine on my Intel dual core machine. And I also have it set to use multithreading.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Did you install the dual core Athlon driver as suggested on the bug reports page?
Multiplicity - Control multiple PCs using one keyboard and mouse
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, the problem is the dual core driver for XP. I've got a dual core on Win2K with no problems (and I don't have the driver). Microsoft's going to have to pry Win2K from my cold, dead hands.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Try "RunFirst". It's a lil free program someone made for dual cores. It fixed me up with jerky spastic video on my EQ toon. Google it, as I dont know off the top of my head where my buddy found it and I havent worked out how to quote/link on this website yet anyhoo
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had the exact same processor and the exact same problem. Go to www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_13118,00.html and download
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version (exe) 1.2.2. I believe this driver will fix your problem. Be aware of the fact that the driver installs only if you have XP Service Pack 2.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, the problem is the dual core driver for XP. I've got a dual core on Win2K with no problems (and I don't have the driver). Microsoft's going to have to pry Win2K from my cold, dead hands.


I agree with that 100% is it me or does every other Microsoft OS suck?

Win 3.1 Sucked
Win95 Was Ok
Win98 Sucked
Win98Se Was Ok, after patching fully rocked.
WinMe Sucked
WinNT4.0 Was Ok, but a pain in the rear to configure.
Win2k Rocks the house~! (Win 2000 Server, Win 2000 Professional, Win 2000 Advanced)
WinXP First version sucked got better through patches.
WinXP 64 Awesome Rocks! (think of it as a fully patched 32 & 64 bit XP)
Windows Longhorn Beta Really Sucked
Windows Vista Pre Alphas Sucked

Conclusion.
Windows Vista Sucks would rather use Win XP 64 and Win 2000 Professional Dual boot.