I have a problem.

viñas · Post by **viñas** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:16 am

hi all!! i have a problem in armagetron and i can't solve it. I'd like you help me please. here i put an image. it appears a message and i don't know what the reason is. I hope your answers.

http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/aa16 ... getron.jpg

Bye all

Post by **Tank Program** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:58 am

Is your system dual core?

kyle · Post by **kyle** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 4:04 pm

try considering the beta builds. they seam to fix that.
you can download them here

viñas · Post by **viñas** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:34 pm

yes, my system is dualcore what's the problem with that? i hope your answers.thanks kyle.i'll try it.

Bye all

Post by **Tank Program** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:01 pm

I seem to remember reports that in dual core systems, the timers on each core aren't synchronized. When the OS decides to switch an application from one core to another, it takes the information about time from the old core and tries to apply it to the new one, causing a hiccup. Think of it like jet lag for the computer. You left Madrid and it was 9am and flew to New York, where you arrive and it's 12 noon, but the flight was 8 hours long. You just lost some time there and so you're body's confused. In this case though, the application has lost a few milliseconds, but enough to confuse it.

(Can someone verify this? Or am I sprouting garbage?)

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:11 pm

Yep, I recall that. Only I don't think the OS does anything in particular with time; it's simply that you semi-randomly get one of different time sources.

viñas · Post by **viñas** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:09 pm

ok thanks. i understand more or less although i'm a noob in this topic... other thing if i disable Cool&Quiet in the Bios can i solve the problem?? Thanks again and i hope your answers again

viñas · Post by **viñas** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:41 am

hi! i entered in the Bios and i saw that AMD K8 Cool&Quiet configuration was disabled...

what should i do?

Thanks.Bye all

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:45 pm

In Windows you can set "affinity" in the task manager to lock it to one core. See if that helps.

viñas · Post by **viñas** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:32 pm

if i download the task manager, what do i do then?? i hope your answer... ty, i'm a noob in this topic sorry...

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:21 am

Download the task manager? I presume open?

Probably right-click on Armagetron in the task manager and look if you see anything like affinity, then uncheck all but one of the checkboxes in the window that appears. I haven't touched any machine running Windows for more than a few minutes in ages, so I can't tell everything in full detail.

viñas · Post by **viñas** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:43 pm

hi! i did it, it appears Cpu 0 and Cpu 1, i uncheck the cpu1 but i haven't tried if the message appears or not. i'm trying at the moment.when i know if appears or not, i post again.

Bye.

viñas · Post by **viñas** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 2:25 pm

HI again!! i've tried and it works. Thanks a lot!!

Bye all.