Core i7, sollution - stability

[delevero]

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Dear Forum

For a long time my computer had been unstable playing arma2 and crashed alot. I read many treads on the forum and realized that many people had problems when running a Core i7 cpu and arma.

The solution to this problem is rather simple.

You have to enter BIOS when you start your computer ( PRESS Delete ) and then somewere you have to find and DISABLE the feature named

"HT" or " hyper threading"

Since i did this my arma have been rock steady and i do not even need all the extensions like -winxp - maxmem=XXX or compability mode ect.

Also if you do this you do not have to disable PHYSX or Vertical sync.
arma will run.

Thought i share my experience with other players.

Try it out, maybe it work for you also, who knows :bounce3:

My system
Core i7, cpu 940
12gb ddr3 ram.
Nvidia 295 geforce
windows 7

[xclusiv8]

Dude its called hyper threading, not hyper treshing.

[No Use For A Name]

...AND it's been said again and again that disabling helps with stability, although not for everyone

[delevero]

This is not a discussing topic...

Please only post comments that can help others, people want to find the help they can and not have to read through 100 of comments that say nothing about the problem they are trying to fix...
So please only comment on solutions not just talk, you can do that in a chat forum.

Best regards
Peder

[BangTail]

This is not a discussing topic...

Please only post comments that can help others, people want to find the help they can and not have to read through 100 of comments that say nothing about the problem they are trying to fix...
So please only comment on solutions not just talk, you can do that in a chat forum.

Best regards
Peder

And you should use the search function. This information isn't anything we didn't know already.

[galzohar]

Due to how the game doesn't run a lot of threads, I can't see how it's going to hurt anyone to disable hyperthreading. I've definitely seen a performance increase on AI-heavy situations with hyperthreading disabled.

[BangTail]

Due to how the game doesn't run a lot of threads, I can't see how it's going to hurt anyone to disable hyperthreading. I've definitely seen a performance increase on AI-heavy situations with hyperthreading disabled.

With the last few beta builds, you need only use the -cpucount=4 switch.

I didn't buy i7's to disable one of their major features. Having, said that, if all you do is game, you probably won't notice a huge difference. It's a different story when it comes to certain apps.

Eth

[galzohar]

Yeah, I don't really do anything that runs 8 heavy threads, so hyperthreading is useless to me, at least at the moment.