AMD Dual Core & Crashing Games Tech Tip

[FoxBat]

There's a number of games out there (including Guild Wars) that show stuttering and/or crashing on some dual-core systems. The problem has to do with these games bypassing the windows API to access the system clock, and not taking into consideration how multi-core alters said timings.

One age-old solution has been to force the application (or your computer) into single-processor mode. But there's a convenient alternative that allows you to skip that:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_...er_113.zip

For my new AMD 64 X2, the GW Intro screen was stuttering like crazy. After applying this patch, smooth as silk.

[Lurker Wyrm]

I've been running that for about as long as I've had this comp, although I found it by accident when I was browsing the AMD site. I also found a G15 utility they have to send processor statistics to the little LCD screen, but I don't have a G15 (yet... need to wait for a sale; seriously, $80 for a keyboard is insane).