Game Running Too Fast

[LeeDye]

Hello everyone
I did a search and could not locate a solution to my problem.
My Painkiller game is waaay too fast. Keep in mind that I just finished FEAR, COT2, etc.... All ran well. I have everything running at max settings at 1280x768 yet I really need to slow this game down. This game is running as if it is in Turbo mode. I only ran into this once loooong ago with another game. So where in a config file can I slow things down?
thanks
Lee

SYSTEM
X2 Dual Core 3800@2900mhz, SLI 7800GTX video cards, overclocked, latest drivers, Creative Soundblaster X-FI, Windows X64, 2 gig PC4800.

[PeTjA]

Its a known bug just dissable one CPU in the taskmanager or

Yes, it's a well known bug of the AMD Dualcore.
The tool you'll find here:
have a look:
http://dreamcatcherinteractive.com/forums/showpost.php?p=188396&postcount=4
Taken from this thread here http://dreamcatcherinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26811

[Bjossi]

You can also use a system command to add info to use only 1 CPU to the windows header of the EXE file for Painkiller.

The system command is custom made btw. You can search for it on google, it is named ImageCfg. It´s free and very useful if dualcore or hyperthreating causes trouble.

:)

[Blaise]

I might have to look into this as I'm now blessed with a dual-core FX-60 and although the timedemo c5l2 displays 253fps @1280x1024 (everything maxed out) it seems choppy. Initially I thought it was caused by heat (I'm overclocking it a tad) but it seems like Painkiller doesn't really like working with 2 cores. I'll have another look with one of the cores disabled.

[PeTjA]

I'll have another look with one of the cores disabled.
Do it! Dont say that PK is a slow game then.:o

[Blaise]

I never said it was slow... just choppy.

[LeeDye]

Thanks for the tips everyone, I will look into it.
Lee

[Bjossi]

I might have to look into this as I'm now blessed with a dual-core FX-60 and although the timedemo c5l2 displays 253fps @1280x1024 (everything maxed out) it seems choppy. Initially I thought it was caused by heat (I'm overclocking it a tad) but it seems like Painkiller doesn't really like working with 2 cores. I'll have another look with one of the cores disabled.

That can´t be lag because the game goes to slow motion instead of slideshow, if the game feels like a fast slideshow, then it could be caused by dualcores.

[Varus77]

...and btw PK isn't the only one game that shows this software bug of the AMD dualcore - UT and others too.

[Bjossi]

Yup, and old games like System Shock 2 that use the Dark Engine will freeze up shortly after starting a level.

It only happens with DualCore and HyperThreating Technology.

[Blaise]

A quick update... initially I used the standard AMD Athlon 64 driver as I was simply going from a 4000+ to the FX-60. As the FX-60 is dual-core, I tried the AMD Athlon X2 driver but was experiencing HAL & kernel errors when Windows XP was booting. I then assumed that the X2 driver was at fault and reverted to a restore point where my AMD Athlon 64 driver was last installed and all seemed to run fine. It was at this point when I was testing (or trying to play) Painkiller and experienced the choppy effect.

Since then I have spoken with the author of the FX-60 review on "The Guru of 3D" (Hilbert) and found out he was happily using the X2 driver during his review. Then (as it turned, rightfully) I came to conclusion that my X2 driver must have been corrupted, so I re-downloaded and installed it this morning.

The outcome -- all is back to normal and running both cores yields about a 12FPS increase (@1280x1024 with the settings maxed out) over having one core disabled (though the "Affinity" option in Windows Task Manager). This could be down to the dual-core support in the nVidia driver but I only disabled the core for a single program, not the system so who knows?

[Bjossi]

It can be useful to have two cores if you are a program geek.
Run WinAmp, explorer.exe, the system tasks and other things on one core, and the game on the other.