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Kristin Ortega
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Posted - 2006.02.13 21:47:00 -
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There is a new news clip from CCP on dual core processors, however I am unable to find any CPU driver patches on the site 
I'm using Windows XP Media Center edition, can anyone help me? All I found was this lousy Utility to check the stats on the CPUs. That's the only thing there was to download 
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Argy
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Posted - 2006.02.13 22:04:00 -
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Yes I have the same problem and it's really annoying. I don't think I could ever find anything on that intel site, even with a map, a compass, and a metal detector. The new support sounds great and I could always use less choppiness (and crappiness) on my eve.
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Grim Faust
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Posted - 2006.02.13 23:19:00 -
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Edited by: Grim Faust on 13/02/2006 23:19:31
To get rid of the stuttering problem, with a windows OS and an AMD chip I have confirmed how to fix this. Go into your task manager when eve is running (CTR-ALT-DLT). Right click the eve.exe process and you will see 'Set Affinity', click it. It will pull up a list of cpu's and check mark boxes. As you should see there will be two cpu's checked, uncheck one and this should solve your dual core problems. I had this problem too and this is how I fixed it, before I did my FPS gauge in game looked like a flipping buzz saw blade. Now it's as smooth as butter.
Hope this helps you guys.
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Blind Man
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Posted - 2006.02.13 23:34:00 -
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 Originally by: Grim Faust
Edited by: Grim Faust on 13/02/2006 23:19:31
To get rid of the stuttering problem, with a windows OS and an AMD chip I have confirmed how to fix this. Go into your task manager when eve is running (CTR-ALT-DLT). Right click the eve.exe process and you will see 'Set Affinity', click it. It will pull up a list of cpu's and check mark boxes. As you should see there will be two cpu's checked, uncheck one and this should solve your dual core problems. I had this problem too and this is how I fixed it, before I did my FPS gauge in game looked like a flipping buzz saw blade. Now it's as smooth as butter.
Hope this helps you guys.
this is the reason they are adding in dual core support
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Grim Faust
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Posted - 2006.02.13 23:41:00 -
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It won't be soon enough >_<
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Kristin Ortega
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Posted - 2006.02.13 23:59:00 -
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Linky
This is how to set the dual core processors affinity permanently. However I am having trouble getting the imagecfg to work, let me know if anyone figures it out.
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Argy
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Posted - 2006.02.14 00:08:00 -
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Originally by: Blind Man
Originally by: Grim Faust
Edited by: Grim Faust on 13/02/2006 23:19:31
To get rid of the stuttering problem, with a windows OS and an AMD chip I have confirmed how to fix this. Go into your task manager when eve is running (CTR-ALT-DLT). Right click the eve.exe process and you will see 'Set Affinity', click it. It will pull up a list of cpu's and check mark boxes. As you should see there will be two cpu's checked, uncheck one and this should solve your dual core problems. I had this problem too and this is how I fixed it, before I did my FPS gauge in game looked like a flipping buzz saw blade. Now it's as smooth as butter.
Hope this helps you guys.
this is the reason they are adding in dual core support
So it's not released yet?
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Grim Faust
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Posted - 2006.02.14 00:12:00 -
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Edited by: Grim Faust on 14/02/2006 00:12:18
link has the download and a guide. :)
http://www.robpol86.com/Pages/imagecfg.php
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Kristin Ortega
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Posted - 2006.02.14 00:19:00 -
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Originally by: Grim Faust
Edited by: Grim Faust on 14/02/2006 00:12:18
link has the download and a guide. :)
http://www.robpol86.com/Pages/imagecfg.php
I was following that very guide. However it is not working, I don't know what to do anymore 
I am using Windows XP Media Center Edition, could that be the problem? It does not say if its compatible with it.
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Argy
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Posted - 2006.02.14 00:25:00 -
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I'm using Windows XP Office, and yea, it only says it works for XP Family..?
and is this what the news was about? That site seems fairly un-official and very un-intel (is this AMD or intel P4?)
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Grim Faust
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Posted - 2006.02.14 00:49:00 -
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Edited by: Grim Faust on 14/02/2006 00:54:16
This is not specific to your chip, It's specific to your OS, which is why it lists which OS's can use this command rather than CPU. I'll try simplify this process:
1. Download 'Imagecfg.exe'
2. Put the 'Imagecfg.exe' file in your Windows system32 folder
Usualy you should be able to find the path as follows C:\windows\system32\
3. MAKE A COPY OF YOUR EVE.EXE FILE!! This is because CCP will eventualy fix this problem and you want to restore your old exe which is dual cpu enabled. These next steps that disable one cpu on the exe are irreversible , so you will need a copy of the exe if you ever want to go back to the dual cpu setup! (Or you can just reinstall Eve if you have time.)
4. Press the windows button on your keyboard or click the start button and open 'run' console.
5. Once you have the run screen popup you will have a text entry field, here type in 'command' .
6. Command will bring up a DOS window, this is where you will type in:
imagecfg -a 0x1 c:\path\to\file.exe
As an example I type in imagecfg -a 0x1 "C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE\eve.exe"
NOTE: Do not forget to use the quotation marks around your file path if the path to your EVE.exe has a space in it somewhere, such as the default install directory of Program Files. If your path does not have spaces, you do not need quotes.
7. That's it, our eve.exe will permanently load with only one cpu. As I said before if you want to go back to dual , you will need to backup your eve.exe and restore it or if you like, set the affinity in task manager.
Hope that all works for you.
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Kristin Ortega
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Posted - 2006.02.14 01:11:00 -
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Edited by: Kristin Ortega on 14/02/2006 01:13:39
Originally by: Grim Faust
2. Put the 'Imagecfg.exe' file in your Windows system32 folder
Usualy you should be able to find the path as follows C:\windows\system32\
Don't you have to put it in dllcache as well? 
Quote:
NOTE: Do not forget to use the quotation marks around your file path if the path to your EVE.exe has a space in it somewhere, such as the default install directory of Program Files. If your path does not have spaces, you do not need quotes.
That's what I was missing  , thanks a lot mate. I hope this eliminates my crashing problems.
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Grim Faust
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Posted - 2006.02.14 01:15:00 -
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Originally by: Kristin Ortega
Originally by: Grim Faust
2. Put the 'Imagecfg.exe' file in your Windows system32 folder
Usualy you should be able to find the path as follows C:\windows\system32\
Don't you have to put it in dllcache as well?
No, just the system32 folder, that way when you go into 'Run' and run 'command' , it knows where to look and execute.
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Kristin Ortega
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Posted - 2006.02.14 01:38:00 -
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Edited by: Kristin Ortega on 14/02/2006 01:38:24
I'm still getting these "disconnects" where my game doesn't receive info from CCP and then I see 10 chat msg pop up.
Operating Instructions
Forums to download from (don't call MS) - Its on page 2
This hotfix can also relieve from pressure from the D processors, but even for this I'm having trouble installing it. Grim mind typing up a summarized guide for this as well?
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Grim Faust
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Posted - 2006.02.14 02:23:00 -
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Unfortuneatly I won't be able to help you there. I haven't delved into that topic at all. Hopefully ccp will sort out these problems, Afterall I find it ridiculous enough I have to disable half my cpu's power just to play their game and they haven't even gave us any quick fixes yet , leaving us to our own devices. Makes you wonder why you pay so much a month for a product and get little to no support at all aside a poke in the direction of the cpu's manufacturers and leaving it on them. *COUGH*
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Kristin Ortega
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Posted - 2006.02.14 02:30:00 -
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I completely agree with you mate. Dual cores have been out for a long time now and I'm surprised not much is being done to fix this (maybe it is, but its terribly slow).
Anyone else who can type up a quick summary for us newbies?
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Andrue
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Posted - 2006.02.14 08:30:00 -
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Originally by: Kristin Ortega
I completely agree with you mate. Dual cores have been out for a long time now and I'm surprised not much is being done to fix this (maybe it is, but its terribly slow).
Anyone else who can type up a quick summary for us newbies?
I have had a 'dual core' (actually Hyperthreaded) CPU for over a year now but I only began to see real problems after RMR came out. Setting affinity fixes the problem but now it also appears that the MS hotfix does as well.
In my case the problem was simply poor performance.
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DragonOfTheArmory
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Posted - 2006.02.14 10:21:00 -
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I run Eve on a P4D 840 with zero problems that everyone is seeing with the game being jerky, etc etc etc.
I guess I don't see the problems that the devs are referring to.
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DragonOfTheArmory
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Posted - 2006.02.14 10:33:00 -
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Another passing thought while I'm here:
CPU's don't require drivers, but the chip sets do. Are they referring to the chip set drivers or is there something else that they might be talking about?
Can someone from CCP clear this up a bit please?
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Andrue
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Posted - 2006.02.14 12:54:00 -
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Originally by: DragonOfTheArmory
Another passing thought while I'm here:
CPU's don't require drivers, but the chip sets do. Are they referring to the chip set drivers or is there something else that they might be talking about?
Can someone from CCP clear this up a bit please?
CPUs don't strictly speaking 'need' drivers for standard use but if you want to access aditional information about the chip or special features then you need a driver.
Calling it a 'driver' is a little obtuse because really it's just a miniature configuration tool but from the end user POV it looks like a driver and walks like a driver 
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Kristin Ortega
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Posted - 2006.02.14 13:30:00 -
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Originally by: "andrue"
Setting affinity fixes the problem but now it also appears that the MS hotfix does as well.
Yup it does, but I can't figure out how to apply it. The instructions aren't very clear on the support site. Could really use a summary
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Kyguard
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Posted - 2006.02.14 13:31:00 -
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Originally by: Kristin Ortega
Originally by: "andrue"
Setting affinity fixes the problem but now it also appears that the MS hotfix does as well.
Yup it does, but I can't figure out how to apply it. The instructions aren't very clear on the support site. Could really use a summary
I'm having the same problem :\
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Andrue
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Posted - 2006.02.14 17:23:00 -
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Edited by: Andrue on 14/02/2006 17:25:33
Edited by: Andrue on 14/02/2006 17:23:54
Originally by: Kristin Ortega
Originally by: "andrue"
Setting affinity fixes the problem but now it also appears that the MS hotfix does as well.
Yup it does, but I can't figure out how to apply it. The instructions aren't very clear on the support site. Could really use a summary
Hmm. I found an old link to the download myself last night by Googling. It turned up on about page four of a thread in a geekish forum. I can't find it from work so if I remember I'll post a link when I get home.
It was a self installing EXE so you just double clicked it and went through a brief Wizard.
Edit:Ignore the bit about the registry. That has confused a lot of people but that's effectively how you disable the patch after applying it.
Edit again. The internet connection at work barfed so I couldn't follow the link posted earlier. That's the link I found last night. Just download the EXE and run it.
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(Battle hardened miner)
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Andrue
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Posted - 2006.02.14 17:30:00 -
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Oh and my final 2 cents for now is that the affinity thing seemed to wear off after an hour or so. I haven't played for long enough with the hotfix to know if the same thing will happen. I have never had stuttering but my setup was:
P4 3.4, 1GB RAM, Go5700 card.
Mining in a belt in an Apoc with effects on I'd be lucky to get frame rates into the double digits.
With the affinity trick and the MS hotfix I seem to get 30fps just sitting in a belt in a frigate which is more like I remember it back before RMR.
Either way my new machine has never given me less than 40fps so I only need the laptop for hauling alts :)
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(Battle hardened miner)
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