Game Help:Dual Core Issues

Dual Core Issues

Problem(s)

• The game is quite jerky, even at high framerates, and may intermittently crash.
• Things seem to run slow and fast randomly.

Cause

This is because the game has compatibility issues with dual core CPUs. So not only is there no performance boost with dual core CPUs, there are actually issues which require the following steps to be resolved...

Solution

To fix this problem, you must set your processor affinity...

Setting Processor Affinity Manually:

1. Launch the game.
2. As soon as the game appears to begin loading, or after it has loaded up, press CTRL+ALT+DEL to bring up the Task Manager.
3. Under the Processes tab, find the nameofthegame.exe process (Sims2EP5.exe, for example), right-click on it, select 'Set Affinity'
4. In the box which appears, keep 'CPU 0' ticked but untick all other boxes.

• You may also check Microsoft's article on Dual core processors: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909944/en-us

Credits

Thanks to Echo for originally sharing this information.