[to DEVS] 10 cores CPU breaks the game

[K.o.K]

so my CPU got 10 cores in it ( more expensive than your legs ) and after tons of tries i thought of turning off some cores , so i turned 4 cores off and now the games works like a charm

any plans to fix this Devs ??

[Space Coward]

Originally posted by deasnutz:

do you have hyperthreading on? turn that ♥♥♥♥ off

Halving your cores for the sake of one game isn't a particularly great idea. Using the Affinity setting in Task Manager will suffice for cases like these.

[Xodroc]

Just bought this on sale despite reviews. Why oh why did I not search these forums first? Dual Xeon 36 core/72 thread system here, and no way I'm turning off the majority of my cores just to play a game. Crashes during the splash screen right after launching.

[Space Coward]

Originally posted by CorDox (Xod):

Just bought this on sale despite reviews. Why oh why did I not search these forums first? Dual Xeon 36 core/72 thread system here, and no way I'm turning off the majority of my cores just to play a game. Crashes during the splash screen right after launching.

You don't need to turn off cores, just set the Affinity. It's like running Max Payne on a dual-core (or better) system, it just means the game itself will stick to the selected cores while the cores are still enabled and working for everything else.

Also, allow me a moment to flip my ♥♥♥♥ over the fact that you have 72 threads. WHAT?!

[Revelator]

Originally posted by K.o.K:

so my CPU got 10 cores in it ( more expensive than your legs ) and after tons of tries i thought of turning off some cores , so i turned 4 cores off and now the games works like a charm

any plans to fix this Devs ??

sorry but you are cpu limited.

[Xodroc]

Originally posted by Moss:

Originally posted by CorDox (Xod):

Just bought this on sale despite reviews. Why oh why did I not search these forums first? Dual Xeon 36 core/72 thread system here, and no way I'm turning off the majority of my cores just to play a game. Crashes during the splash screen right after launching.

You don't need to turn off cores, just set the Affinity. It's like running Max Payne on a dual-core (or better) system, it just means the game itself will stick to the selected cores while the cores are still enabled and working for everything else.

Also, allow me a moment to flip my ♥♥♥♥ over the fact that you have 72 threads. WHAT?!

Yep, I've tried using start /affinity, PSTools, Imagecfg, etc. No time to set it manually before it crashes. The closest I got was getting stuck with an infinite loading screen before the title screen shows up. The only sure fire solution is disabling cores completely which involves too much rebooting.

As for 72 threads, It's workstation. Think photogrammetry (3d photo reconstruction), building 400 square km landscapes at 1 meter per pixel resolution, 8k+ textures, old fashioned cpu rendering, unreal engine editor, lightmap baking(eww) etc. Yet my browser still crawls with 2000 tabs open because I need 128-bit processors, 64-bit is too limiting. Needless to say while one app is processing a massive amount of data, I'm still able to work in another one or play a game at the same time.

[Schploopus]

This issue ever been fixed? Nothing else about it in these forums.

[shub]

I had the same problem with my 11 core CPU (more expensive than yours)
Legs

[Revelator]

problem fixed with latest version update of the game + win 1903 64bit .387 clean install. (plus bios update, and gpu drivers obvious)

[Coco]

I have exactly the same problem on my 12 core system (24 with Hyper Threading). Theoretically, you could start the game from shell and limit its usage to just 2 or 4 cores like this (2 cores in the below example):

START "" /B /NODE 0 /AFFINITY 0x3 "<your-steam-path>\The Technomancer\TheTechnomancer.exe"

However, Steam seems to interfere with this and reassignes all available cores to the game instead, which you can check the the Sysinternals Process Explorer. So unfortunately, this doesn't work. (If you try this with Notepad, for example, it perfectly limits it to 2 cores)

So as it seems, my only option is refunding the game, which is a shame.

[dEEkAy]

Originally posted by Coco:

I have exactly the same problem on my 12 core system (24 with Hyper Threading). Theoretically, you could start the game from shell and limit its usage to just 2 or 4 cores like this (2 cores in the below example):

START "" /B /NODE 0 /AFFINITY 0x3 "<your-steam-path>\The Technomancer\TheTechnomancer.exe"

However, Steam seems to interfere with this and reassignes all available cores to the game instead, which you can check the the Sysinternals Process Explorer. So unfortunately, this doesn't work. (If you try this with Notepad, for example, it perfectly limits it to 2 cores)

So as it seems, my only option is refunding the game, which is a shame.

You could do the msconfig thing. Where you boot up your pc with just 4 cores. i tried that yesterday with my 5900X and the game ran super smooth and loaded up without issues.

those affinity things you can do with the cmd/powershell don't work.
3rd party software like cpu cores (which i tried too) don't work too.
Game is just badly coded. Unless someone finds a nice fix/hack for this you will need to do the msconfig thing.

btw, i tried microsoft sandbox but that's such a hassle to configure everything, lastly i couldn't get the game to work with it. might try a vm for the game though.