Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay Issues

[docholiday]

I just recently received Escape from Butcher Bay with my new 7800GTX vid card, and I've had issue after issue. I resolved a few of the crash issues by using the Knowledge Base on the Vivendi Universal site, but I still have a serious video shuttering issue.

It's like I'm laggin, vene though I am not on the internet and I am getting 60-100 fps on average. I have all the latest drivers for my sound and vid cards, and I am runing a system that is far more than adequate for the game. So if anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate the help.

System:
Nvidia 7800GTX 256MB PCI Express
AMD Athlon X2 64 4200+ Dual-Core
2gig PC3200
On-board 7.1 surround sound

[pam123]

Your X2 seems to be the problem.
The Riddick forum has this to say : http://forums.vugames.com/thread.jsp...=3937&tstart=0

Problem: Choppy gameplay on dual-core systems

There are some issues with dual core systems, and some users have found that disabling one processor and running the game from it takes care of the problem.

Another user discovered this:

"I have finally found a cure! I sniffed on this AMD X2 thread and read bout a program called ROPE. You can all get it from innes.org. Basically what it does, it forces the application You select to run on a single core. Somehow PowerStrip didn't do it.

From what I read in that thread, the dual X2 processors have a hard time staying in sync and that causes problems in other applications. In Riddick it causes this choppy thing. For example, it causes Unreal Engine based games to crash. Another unstable game was Painkiller (similar symptoms to Riddick).

As I do not have a X2, but a Pentium-D, it seems that all the new dual core processors are flawed in this way. Regardles whether they are Intel or AMD.

And to make it simple for all of You, I'll give an example, how to use this program:

You have a regular shortcut to Riddick:

"C:\Games\Riddick\riddick.exe"

If You install the ROPE program in the default folder, the new shortcut to Riddick will look like:

"C:\Program Files\innes.org\ROPE\ROPE.exe" -f 0 -n "C:\Games\Riddick\Riddick.exe"

This will cause the application riddick.exe to be run on the '0' processor.

Read also that it solves issues with many games, that have problems running on a dual-core rig. All You have to do is to copy-paste the first part to your new shortcut. And voila. Games run like on a normal one-core machine. Not that they used the second core in the first place..."