Intel Duo Core PC's

[Atrocities]

I am becoming a firm believer that Intels Duo Core processors are not all that great for gaming. That or they don't work well with Nvidia 8800GT cards running XP sp3. I should have went with Vista.

[mrscrogg]

it could be the game is not new enough to read you are using Dou Core processors

[Fyron]

Intel's Core 2 Duo is the best CPU architecture around for home PCs these days; AMD's offerings fall way behind. They work well with 8800GTs for most people, Vista or XP.

mrscrogg said:
it could be the game is not new enough to read you are using Dou Core processors

Then it would run in a single thread on a single core and it wouldn't matter. There aren't actually any single core CPUs out there that are faster than the dual core stuff Intel and AMD make these days, cause they gave up on single-cores on the high end long ago.

[AstralWanderer]

What exactly is the problem? It must be pretty dire if Vista is looking like a better choice...

[Fyron]

Vista is a perfectly acceptable choice.

[MisterBenn]

Sorry to hear you are having trouble. For the record I am using a Core 2 Duo E8400 with a 7800GT and Vista Ultimate SP1 and am very happy. Performance is good across the board and SE5 is not a problem either. I have to disable desktop font smoothing for a good frame rate, but don't have to touch anything like core affinity or similiar.

[Atrocities]

lock up crashes when playing Far cry and all other games