Help diagnosing problem (not sure where to post)

bigjimmyauk · 9 Feb 2010 at 01:00

everytime i go to play my fave adventure game on pc "broken sword 4" it's goes all crazy any any object ingame that is supposed to move like characters,doors,interactive objects just appear solid black i've tried every compatibility mode windows 7 has to offer hoping some of you guru's could throw in your 2 pence worth

P:S every other game i have is fine i did notice tho that while installing the game which i have done several times now just to be sure at the end it always says failed to place desktop shortcut

bigjimmyauk · 9 Feb 2010 at 01:17

nevermind it appears this game won't run on quad core processors and they never released a patch to fix it FFS

actually would there be a way to get this game to run using task manager and setting affinity i tried it but to be able to see the game in task manager you have to start it by which time it's already trying to use 4 cores

stulid · 9 Feb 2010 at 01:23

Driver issue. Try others?

bigjimmyauk · 9 Feb 2010 at 01:25

stulid said:
Driver issue. Try others?

no not drivers worked fine in my x2 3800+ a couple of weeks ago i tried rolling back through earlier cats definately according to multiple google searches it don't run on quad cores without the interactive and live motion objects being unshaded

stulid · 9 Feb 2010 at 01:36

Try the driver settings? aa, af and catalyst a.i

bigjimmyauk · 9 Feb 2010 at 01:37

stulid said:
Try the driver settings? aa, af and catalyst a.i

been through it all already just seen it on a online shop it says officially does not support quad core cpu's but there are possible workarounds none of which work with windows 7

stulid · 9 Feb 2010 at 01:44

No reason why setting affinity wont force it from four cores to two or one.

bigjimmyauk · 9 Feb 2010 at 02:02

stulid said:
No reason why setting affinity wont force it from four cores to two or one.

na can't get it to work gonna send THQ a email and see if they ever resolved the issue

stulid · 9 Feb 2010 at 02:08

This is a new video card, and if I remember correctly, you couldn't get it to work on your old 3800X2 CPU due to motherboard issues, what did you play this game on before?

If I'm completely wrong, forgive me, I'm in amsterdam till wednesday. I'm stoned, and its 0307 in the morning.

bigjimmyauk · 9 Feb 2010 at 02:15

stulid said:
This is a new video card, and if I remember correctly, you couldn't get it to work on your old 3800X2 CPU due to motherboard issues, what did you play this game on before?

If I'm completely wrong, forgive me, I'm in amsterdam till wednesday. I'm stoned, and its 0307 in the morning.

PMSL thats mega funny hope your having a good time

on my 2600xt

and yes i've plugged the 2600xt into my new rig installed old 2600xt driver still same problem persists, if you get time just google ityou'll see aload of people saying that it don't work on quad cores lol

just sent a e-mail to thq i'll see what they say

thanks for your help anyway appreciate it

stulid · 9 Feb 2010 at 02:29

In xp, when dual core were coming out and were all the rage, there was a setting in device manager to check/ammend to ensure it was using two cores and not just one.

Maybe there is some reverse thing you can do in windows7 to make it smp only.

bigjimmyauk · 9 Feb 2010 at 02:32

stulid said:
In xp, when dual core were coming out and were all the rage, there was a setting in device manager to check/ammend to ensure it was using two cores and not just one.

Maybe there is some reverse thing you can do in windows7 to make it smp only.

Not been able to find anything things have moved on a lot from xp so i doubt it would be supported anymore