I have been having lots of weird software problems with my 32-bit programs.
Most noteably are the games where the software will run normally for 5-10
seconds and then speed up as if the game is running twice as fast as it
normally should, it will do this for 5-10 seconds and then go back to normal
and repeat.
The videogames I have noticed this on so far are
-Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
-Star Wars: Jedi Knight II
-Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

I also notice the same problem in flash apps that run in my Firefox browser.
The animation will speed up and slow down. Obviously I haven't had extensive
testing with where this orginating from or why it is doing this but believe
me I have made sure that there aren't any other programs running while I use
these programs (unless there is something running that I am not seeing). The
funny thing is sometimes the software will run just fine and then I will hit
a loading transition in a game it will go out of whack; restarting my
computer fixes the problem usually. The system I am running this on was
purchased in June of this year with 1 gig of RAM, an AMD 64bit Dual Core
Processor +4600, and a new ATI graphics card. Could this have something to do
with AMD's dual processor set-up in their chip? Any info on this weird
problem would be much appreciated, thanks.

Re: Software Speed Inconsistancies with Windows Professional XP x64 by Mike

Mike
Tue Nov 01 12:37:36 CST 2005

MEKsLP wrote:
> I have been having lots of weird software problems with my 32-bit programs.
> Most noteably are the games where the software will run normally for 5-10
> seconds and then speed up as if the game is running twice as fast as it
> normally should, it will do this for 5-10 seconds and then go back to normal
> and repeat.
> The videogames I have noticed this on so far are
> -Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
> -Star Wars: Jedi Knight II
> -Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
>
> I also notice the same problem in flash apps that run in my Firefox browser.
> The animation will speed up and slow down. Obviously I haven't had extensive
> testing with where this orginating from or why it is doing this but believe
> me I have made sure that there aren't any other programs running while I use
> these programs (unless there is something running that I am not seeing). The
> funny thing is sometimes the software will run just fine and then I will hit
> a loading transition in a game it will go out of whack; restarting my
> computer fixes the problem usually. The system I am running this on was
> purchased in June of this year with 1 gig of RAM, an AMD 64bit Dual Core
> Processor +4600, and a new ATI graphics card. Could this have something to do
> with AMD's dual processor set-up in their chip? Any info on this weird
> problem would be much appreciated, thanks.

Look at this page on the AMD web site

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_1260_1202%5E871%5E13118,00.html

You may need the Dual core driver. It adds to the start line in the
boot.ini /pmtimer or similar. This has come up on some of the games
forum as a resolution

MIke