Dual Core Problems in games? Are AMD going to do anything?

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Originally Posted by dng29

anyone have a similar setup as mine? could you please post your recommendation for a fix. thanks :).

p.s. i also tried the recently release 81.85 driver and that didn't help either. i guess it's a driver issue afterall, sucks.

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Do you to set the affinity to one core when you are playing a game?
When I don't do that my games stutter to,I have a x2 3800 (@2700) and the 81.85drivers.

ugly n grey: thanks for the tip/explanation !!!

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Originally Posted by WiD26

Do you to set the affinity to one core when you are playing a game?
When I don't do that my games stutter to,I have a x2 3800 (@2700) and the 81.85drivers.

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yup i tried setting affinity to either core and that didn't help either :(. i like to use the 81.xx series drivers for its dual core optimization, but i guess i'll have to go back to 78.01(official). with 81.84 or 81.85 drivers i score about 96,423 points in aquamark 3 at default gpu speeds. i'm going to oc the card and see if i can score higher. with 78.01 driver, the card scores around 88,000 points. that's a pretty big difference. i also though that if i'm running winxp sp2 with amd x2 driver, i won't have to set affinity when playing games. if only nvidia would fix this dual core issue with their driver then i'll be in gaming heaven :).

It's simple, don't use beta drivers.

Yes, they may bump up benchmarks and look nice, but they're not FM approved anyway (and AQ3 is MIA).....b stands for beta and buggy.

Rest assured that nV is working on solid DC drivers.

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Originally Posted by Vapor

It's simple, don't use beta drivers.

Yes, they may bump up benchmarks and look nice, but they're not FM approved anyway (and AQ3 is MIA).....b stands for beta and buggy.

Rest assured that nV is working on solid DC drivers.

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i sure hope so. what's FM and what's AQ3? sorry for my ignorance :). i might just keep 81.85 for games like fear, q4, serious sam 2, aoe3, but i can't play my racing games or sports games :(. wishi can run dual drivers in windozexp :).

FM = Futuremark. AQ3 = Aquamark3. IIRC, there is a way to run different drivers for different games, but that might be an ATi thing (and it's not a feature, more of a work around from what I remember).

thanks for all the info. i'll just be patient and wait for official dc driver :). going back to 78.01 and see how fear and q4 performances are like :).

I just played serious sam on my new X2 3800+ with the latest beta 8x.xx driver from nVidia and there are no issues with sound.

Ah, no wonder that was the case. Those drivers are now WHQL'ed