NFSMW Dual-core CPU problem... and solution

[Alison]

The game really started to speed up and was hard to play double-time.
The first time I noticed was funny. I was at the countdown to start a race
and 3...2...1 counted down in about 1.5 seconds. I thought, "Say goodbye to
perfect launches."
Then I found a solution on tweakguides.com. After launching NFSMW, go back
to the desktop and find speed.exe in the task manager processes. Right-click
on it and select the Affinity settings. Uncheck CPU1 and then the game will
only run on one CPU (CPU0).Works great, but needs to be done each time I
boot the game.

Just thought I would post this, as I looked here first for the solution and
didn't find it.

There are also tweaks to rename video files so you don't have to watch Mia's
warning and the other intro's. The game boots up faster. But you need to
rename them to thr original in order to install patches.

[Jeff Reid]

Post by Alison
The game really started to speed up and was hard to play double-time.
The first time I noticed was funny. I was at the countdown to start a race and 3...2...1 counted down in about 1.5
seconds.

I've been running with hyperthreading enabled, and didn't notice a speed
up or problem. A true dual core should be a bit faster, but usually games
calibrate themselves to the timers in a PC which are very accurate accross
all systems.

Usually the game just doesn't work at all or has problems, more with
dual core than hyperthreading. In the case of need for speed 4 - high stakes,
it eventually aborts out to desktop with an error about closing the same
stream (I assume audio stream) twice, if hyperthreading is enabled.

Is there anyway to preset the affinity of an application via the
application compatability tookkit (sdb, sdbinst, act...) that's on the cd-rom
for Windows XP.

[Alison]

Post by Jeff Reid

Post by Alison
The game really started to speed up and was hard to play double-time.
The first time I noticed was funny. I was at the countdown to start a
race and 3...2...1 counted down in about 1.5 seconds.

Is there anyway to preset the affinity of an application via the
application compatability tookkit (sdb, sdbinst, act...) that's on the cd-rom
for Windows XP.

I'm not sure. I didn't want to try the permanent fix I found. Not just yet.
I'm pretty new to the dual-core and am still learning. And it wasn't always
double-time. Never slow. But would fluctuate from fast to faster. And I also
still need to apply the XP hotfix that is supposed to stabilize the OS to
better handle the multiple CPU's.

But I'm having so much fun with it now that I upgraded.