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Catheter-OMO
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 Posted - Sep 29 2005 : 10:19:28
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Heres a thread I found when trying get info on bf2cc.
We been running a large BF2 tourney at the LAN here and have been plagued by seemingly random disconnects from the servers for some clients. We've narrowed this down to the fact that all the people having problems are running AMD X2's ( dual core AMD64's ). After setting affinity for the client on the machines having the disconnects the problem goes away.
Hence the problem looks like its due to a threading issue highlighted by the SMP characteristics of the new AMD chips. Obviously this would be something that needs addressing for 1.03 / 1.1
Could be your problem Fuddy, dropping back to desktop?
Here's the URL: http://www.bf2cc.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1461
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FuddyDud-OMO
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Posted - Sep 29 2005 : 10:27:44
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Thanks for the concern Cathy, but my processor is the AMD Athlon 4000+ which is not dual core.
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Arcane
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Posted - Sep 29 2005 : 12:09:05
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*just sits back and smiles*
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Novus Ordo Seclorum
Knowledge is power... has been since time eternal. Arcane knowledge is thereby ultimate power and can
therefore lead to ultimate corruption. Wisdom (and the experience that comes with age) is a serum for corruption.
Perhaps that is why there are so many Old Men with Arcane knowledge and so few young ones...
Arcane OMO - Circa 2001
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Dirtbag-OMO
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Posted - Sep 29 2005 : 12:35:02
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I have run AMD and Intel. The Amd IMHO gives you more bang for the buck. But the Intell seems to be the most stable and reliable.
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PacemakerOMO
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Posted - Sep 29 2005 : 13:04:03
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:) Arcane thats a pretty cheesy grin for an intell guy, i know it hasnt been that long since that was a sickly feeling grin eh?, if we wanted to count the times that both chip makers has had to eat crow, we would be counting a while eh? For gaming you can get just as performance AND more right now for aa lot less dollars ina AMD machine..
i do have a intell machine also , in ANY application the one that ALLWAYS takes longer to load is the intell,,, btw mentioning that gameroom i visited .....their higher dollar intell performance machines has troubles loading BF2
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PacemakerOMO
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Posted - Sep 29 2005 : 13:06:31
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btw i did take my intell comp their and had no problem loading or playing
with only 1 gig of ram
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Catheter-OMO
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Posted - Sep 30 2005 : 10:10:50
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OK Fud I thought you had a 64bit AMD. Maybe I read something wrong but I thought I read the 64 bit processors were a duel core with 2 32bit processors on one chip. My mistake.
I'm an Intel guy and know nothing about AMD. I just have the Intel P4 2.8 overclocked 5%, Asus P4P800 SE MoBo, with 2GBs DDR 3200, and a ATI x700 video card. I think this is a pretty average configuration for BF2 and other than my connection problems, Nesbe Cable :( , I don't have any problems. I have been experencing lockups when my connection freezes and twice BF2 shut down all together in the last week. Last night Ventrilo was "not responding" and wouldn't allow me to shut it down. I had to reboot my pc. I think this is all related to my connection problems and not the pc itself.
Getting back to my point, I added 10 more seconds at the request of 2 that said they still aren't getting in in time. I think they need to have some work done on their puter cus if I get in in 20 seconds with my average pc, everyone should be able to in 40 sec. We are up to 70 second delay for round start time and I'm sure there will be complaints before long if I keep adding to that. It seems to take forever when you are sitting there looking at a screen that says Commander Voting has 45 seconds left.
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FuddyDud-OMO
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Posted - Sep 30 2005 : 11:03:43
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Actally Cathy, even though my pc does go to desktop sometimes (only with BF2), I can still load up and be back on the maps before some others that haven't crashed at all.
I do love my AMD.
I thought this review was humorous in an "up yours Arcane" kind a way
"So, meet the Athlon 64 4000+ and its icy hot stuntaz brother, the Athlon 64 FX-55. The FX line is bolstered by a 200MHz boost up to 2.6GHz, while the 4000 churns at a marginally slower 2.4Ghz. Both sport a 1MB L2 cache, with dual memory channels. Both are fast. Very fast. Fast in a kind of "don't cry Intel, it will be OK" way. If there was any doubt before (and there shouldn't have been), AMD is now firmly, strongly on top of the x86 processor heap"
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AMD duel core processor problems.
