Possible game fix

[sizzleman]

I have this problem with TRU. I go through some levels then the game gets real jerky. Like the frames drop to allmost unplayable levels. I tried the usual, reinstall TRU, DX9 and such and it still happens.

So, I made a test bed with a fresh install of Vista x64 and DX9C. I copied the game to disk first, (omitting the DX9) and installed. The game runs fine for a level or two. I copy over my save games folder and the game becomes unstable. Various copying over of different save points yeilded varying results from it worked good, to the very next load it was unstable. Fustrating. I have Call of Duty 5 also and it runs perfect. Another DX9 game, so I know it's not my system.

Over trial and error, I found a setting in Nvidia control panel called threaded optimization and turned it off. It just limits a game to use only 1 processor. Next, I deleted the Eidos folder in Documents and started TRU. TRU asks to set up a new folder and click ok. Then exit TRU. Lastly I copied over all my saved games except for the autosave and ran TRU. It now works flawless with max settings.

There has to be a bug somewhere. Most I can figure is TRU doesn't support more than 1 processor. And, if the game starts to mess up, it somehow saves some garble to the autosave file to where nothing will help except for TRU to make a new one.

Can anyone confirm this? Also, maybe this could be used for the next patch.

My system:

I7 920
P6t Deluxe V2
CORSAIR Dominator TR3X6G1600C8D
Coolermaster V8 1366
BFG Geforce 285 OC 182.08 drivers
Audigy Platinum 2
PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750w
Vista x64 sp1
TRU patched

Sorry if this is hard to read, I am real tired

[pleomax]

Over trial and error, I found a setting in Nvidia control panel called threaded optimization and turned it off. It just limits a game to use only 1 processor.

I don't really know squat about computers, so anyone is welcome to correct me but isn't that to do with multiple threads that are being handled by the graphics card ?

Your 285gtx is one processor.

[sizzleman]

sorry, I haven't been on since I beat the game and I was real tired when I wrote that. My apologies for the confusion.

To answer your question, yes and no. Yes I do have the Nvidia 285 and it is only a single core card (single GPU - graphics processing unit). But this setting if for your CPU (central processing unit). It turns a quad core CPU into a single core CPU to avoid conflicts in certain games that don't handle multiple processors very well.

Hope this answers your question.