Launch in single core mode?

[sandman2575]

I've been having the same mouse lag issues that other folks playing on Win 7 x64 have been, so I was excited to hear about the single core mode. I installed patch 1.08I, which acc. to the readme says:

- Game can now be launched in sinlge-core-CPU mode

However, when I open the WWI Configurator, there's no option anywhere to check off for this! (No in-game option I can find for this either, although I wasn't expecting the option to be in-game to begin with...)

So, how do I get the game to run in single core mode?

help appreciated!

[Gray_Lensman]

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[sandman2575]

Thanks for the help, Grey Lensman. I launched from the batch file like you indicated -- game launches correctly, and I can see that it is v.1.08I in the corner of the main screen.

However....

when i choose any scenario / campaign, it starts to boot, gets through the "initializing" phase, but then completely hangs up on the "Initializing Map" phase. Not hard-lock -- I can still move the mouse around -- but the load-up bar is not filling at all... even after 10 minutes go by, nothing. Have tried several times now, and I have to ctrl-alt-del to get out, at which point I get a "World War One Gold is not responding" message, and I close. (This doesn't happen if I launch the game in standard fashion from the .exe, but then, I"m trying to get the single-core affinity to work.)

Seems to make no difference if I have "Load all map at start" selected or not in the Configurator.

My laptop specs, just in case it's helpful: intel (quad core) i7 Q820, nvidia GTX 285M (SLI), 4 GB Ram, Win 7 x64.

[Gray_Lensman]

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[calvinus]

Have you tried running the game logged in as PC Administrator and with UAC off?

If the game is so slow (even it hangs up), maybe Win7 makes the game not able to perform I/O operations because your user hasn't enough priviledges.

[sandman2575]

I appreciate the help -- would really like to get this to work -- haven't really been able to play this game properly yet!

I am running as admin., and have UAC turned off.

When I launch from the batch file, choose a scenario, and then get the hang-up on the "Initializing map" screen, when I force-quit, here's the details of the error message:


Description:
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: WW1.exe
Application Version: 1.0.8.9
Application Timestamp: 4c22315a
Hang Signature: b39d
Hang Type: 0
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: b39d784a036a50afed4ffa6117d5a99f
Additional Hang Signature 2: 682a
Additional Hang Signature 3: 682a9e7489f688cd67010c077bfd9fbf
Additional Hang Signature 4: b39d
Additional Hang Signature 5: b39d784a036a50afed4ffa6117d5a99f
Additional Hang Signature 6: 682a
Additional Hang Signature 7: 682a9e7489f688cd67010c077bfd9fbf

[calvinus]

AppHangB1??

Look here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vblanguage/thread/e2772719-e797-46b5-a911-8e2df07f5e4a

Some possible reasons are reported:
"...Hangs and crashes like this usually indicate problems with drivers and/or unmanaged code."
"...that massage (ApphangB1) comes up only when a sound card or graphics or both resources are in use in some way by another program running..."
"...My computer does not have much capacity for graphics (its a netbook), and therefore I got the error."

Anyway it seems a problem caused by Win7. Does it happen only if you try in single-core mode?

[calvinus]

I assume you're running WW1.EXE in XP SP2 Compatibilty mode and you disabled the "Desktop composition" option. Did you do it?

[sandman2575]

I assume you're running WW1.EXE in XP SP2 Compatibilty mode and you disabled the "Desktop composition" option. Did you do it?

yikes... when I run in XP SP2 Compatibility mode and disable "desktop composition," it makes the problem *worse* -- now when I launch from the WW1 Windows batch file, it doesn't get past the opening "initializing game" (forget exact name) screen, but hangs up there! I.e. I never get to the main menu.

Looking at the batch file code -- Does it matter that my WW1 directory is on my D: drive, not C?

@echo off
cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 WW1.exe


THis is incredibly puzzling. I"m not doing anything out of the ordinary -- i.e. I"m not running any other programs when I launch the .exe, I've set up my Kaspersky anti-virus to recognize the WW1 .exe as a trusted application. I"ve also tried disabling SLI and running on a single GPU, and disabling the multi-threading CPU option in the nvidia control panel -- which I assumed would force it to use a single CPU core, but I guess not.

Is there a way I can apply the cmd.exe/ C start/affinity 1 WW1.exe *without* using the batch file? My directory for the game (i.e. the target for the .exe shortcut) is:

"D:\GAMES\World War One Gold\WW1.exe"

[Gray_Lensman]

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[sandman2575]

Thanks for the detailed explanation, Gray Lensman --

I'm at a loss here then. Unless there's some other way to force the .exe to use only one core, I don't see what I can do, since running the game via the batch file keeps getting hung up at some point in the game launch process.

Assuming I can't get the single core option to work, is there anything in the Configurator I should (or should not) have selected in order to try to get better performance?

I have vert. synch *disabled*, I have mouse sensitivity turned all the way down (mouse is *way* too jerky otherwise, and as it is, it's pretty lousy) --

AI Logs & AI Memory -- Off
Universal Audio -- Off
Load all map at start -- off
Load all sounds at start -- off
Play sounds in streaming mode -- off
Low color depth -- off

[calvinus]

Thanks for the detailed explanation, Gray Lensman --

I'm at a loss here then. Unless there's some other way to force the .exe to use only one core, I don't see what I can do, since running the game via the batch file keeps getting hung up at some point in the game launch process.

Assuming I can't get the single core option to work, is there anything in the Configurator I should (or should not) have selected in order to try to get better performance?

I have vert. synch *disabled*, I have mouse sensitivity turned all the way down (mouse is *way* too jerky otherwise, and as it is, it's pretty lousy) --

AI Logs & AI Memory -- Off
Universal Audio -- Off
Load all map at start -- off
Load all sounds at start -- off
Play sounds in streaming mode -- off
Low color depth -- off

No, sorry. These options do not help. In fact, Win7 hangs the game even during the init/load procedure, where no such options are concerned.