Curse

awmiscool · Feb 05, 2008, 09:16 PM // 21:16

I have two quad cores, and recently ive had gw lock up my whole pc. I heard someone say that chaning it to run off of one single core was the solution. It was. But there isnt a specific download or something Anet has released for the.. higher performace users? Cuz right now id rather trade it in for some crappy AMD duel core..

The Way Out · Feb 05, 2008, 09:21 PM // 21:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by awmiscool

I have two quad cores, and recently ive had gw lock up my whole pc. I heard someone say that chaning it to run off of one single core was the solution. It was. But there isnt a specific download or something Anet has released for the.. higher performace users? Cuz right now id rather trade it in for some crappy AMD duel core..

What??? errr....

I don't know what to say to this?

No, there is no multi-core support for GW... and there won't be any.

Question... why spend that kind of money on a system?

MrBeefy · Feb 05, 2008, 09:21 PM // 21:21

how do you do that?

Richardt · Feb 05, 2008, 09:35 PM // 21:35

No there isn't any download that you can use for multiple physical procs. As I understand, most games nowadays are coded to take advantage of multicore processing, but not for have 2 seperate physical processors.

However, GW should work just fine on a single multicore proc. Soooooo I'm not sure why you would want to run it on 2 quad cores TBH. Just seems like you're wanting to fire off a nuke just to get rid of an anthill.

lynnae · Feb 05, 2008, 09:41 PM // 21:41

serious question i have is why two quad cores, and which ones are you running?

gaming wise, the benchmarks for the new phenom AM2+ chipsets were lagging behind top of the line dual cores when tested on graphic intensive games. (if I had the article to hand I'd cite it). I haven't seen the benchmarks for the Intel chips however.

just curious what you're doing that needs that processing power and what kind of video cards you have installed and how.

awmiscool · Feb 05, 2008, 09:44 PM // 21:44

Well,first off, i use it for running basicly everything at max. But, 3 years down the road, dual cores wont be decent anymore. And ill still be able to keep up with alot of the games. But i didnt buy the pc for gw, just ended up playing it cuz its the best mmorpg out atm. until gw2 i guess ill have to wait for something along the lines..

Fern Burntfist · Feb 05, 2008, 09:44 PM // 21:44

i have two quad cores? wtf..

awmiscool · Feb 05, 2008, 09:45 PM // 21:45

oh

Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 (2.66GHz, 2 X 4MB L2,1333)

awmiscool · Feb 05, 2008, 09:45 PM // 21:45

times two :P

lynnae · Feb 05, 2008, 10:04 PM // 22:04

well, tbh, I don't find troubleshooting processors terribly easy (too much math and 01101010100010101's). Have you ruled everything else out? Bad memory, hard disk gone south, (and though it sounds crazy) that your power cables haven't had a wire come loose?

only locking up ever on GW? Have you tried a reinstall? For it to start recently and not have happened at the offset I find suspicious, I'd assume that it's not that it's having trouble running on your system (that would be one crappy chip design, can't run easy programs, now wouldn't it be?) but that something has changed somewhere.

Nanood · Feb 05, 2008, 10:07 PM // 22:07

I remember when i bought my first dual core system. Thought, sweet, now i'll be faster than everyone else.. Well, if I had of been designing on cad I probably would be. But since I was playing games I was slower than everyone with a high end single core and that sucked.

If you have the cash for a system like that go get a high end single core setup so you can play games like other... high end users

There are other threads relating to dual core systems and problems.. Have a look around.

awmiscool · Feb 05, 2008, 10:23 PM // 22:23

Umm.. eeew no. I know what the problem is exactly. the game itself tries to run using all 8 cores, and its not setup to do that. Trust me, no single core can run crysis..

END OF THREAD. seeing is there isnt a multi core patch. lock pls

shouravd · Feb 05, 2008, 11:24 PM // 23:24

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Originally Posted by awmiscool

oh

Quad Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 (2.66GHz, 2 X 4MB L2,1333)

BTW That's not 2 Quad Core's. All that means is that you have 2 L2 cache's 4MB for core pair. Look it up.

I Dont Do Coke · Feb 05, 2008, 11:37 PM // 23:37

Intel and AMD are crapping out processors with more cores than the software industry is willing to keep up with. Guild Wars doesn't need a Skulltrail equipped with two Core 2 Extremes on it.

No single core can run Crysis? How about a single-cored diamond processor? Or something that we all know, the Cell BE. The PS3's Cell has only one core, but it can do more calculations in a given time than most dual-core processors and even some quads out today. The issue with not running Crysis at maximum is graphics cards, not CPUs.

isamu kurosawa · Feb 05, 2008, 11:39 PM // 23:39

Not tried simply setting the apps affinity to a single core?

There are many programs online you can use that run in the background forcing apps on a single core of your choice if you can't be bothered doing it manually.

hurdlebeast · Feb 06, 2008, 12:17 AM // 00:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by lynnae

well, tbh, I don't find troubleshooting processors terribly easy (too much math and 54549's). Have you ruled everything else out? Bad memory, hard disk gone south, (and though it sounds crazy) that your power cables haven't had a wire come loose?

only locking up ever on GW? Have you tried a reinstall? For it to start recently and not have happened at the offset I find suspicious, I'd assume that it's not that it's having trouble running on your system (that would be one crappy chip design, can't run easy programs, now wouldn't it be?) but that something has changed somewhere.

yeah, i'm a nerd :P

Numa Pompilius · Feb 06, 2008, 12:26 AM // 00:26

GW runs just fine on multicore, at least under XP pro.
I'm guessing you're having overheating issues; maybe you need to dial back on the overclocking a notch.

Tachyon · Feb 06, 2008, 04:17 AM // 04:17

It doesn't under XP Home though, I have to set affinity to a single core before playing. Otherwise I get the dreaded freeze up with sound loop and have to hard-reboot.

Yet still, even though countless people report the exact same problem and remedy, ANet refuse to admit the problem exists.

gremlin · Feb 06, 2008, 08:53 AM // 08:53

I am running GW on a quad core and it's fine, I believe the "quad core lockup problem" is a myth.

Ive been running GW, Two Worlds, EVo2 and Raven Shield on my system for weeks now with no lockups whatsoever.

Computers are complicated and every one is different, I believe the lockups have another cause.

So far the only problems on my system seem to be related to running some of my favourite utilities under vista.

Tachyon · Feb 06, 2008, 05:11 PM // 17:11

No, it's not a myth at all! There's been loads of people on this site alone all with the exact same crash which was rectified by setting the affinty to a single core.

Guild Wars is the only game to suffer from this, well for me anyhow. No other game or application on my system crashes or cause problems at all. My system is hand built by me and extremely stable.