Game crash.

[GayBunnyGirl]

When Seifer first appears on screen before the Dollet mission (When Quistis calls him in after we first meet Zell), the game just crashes on me.

[Kurtz]

I think I may have found the answer on these forums. it seems in some cases the game can't handle dual core processors. So once you've got the game running (it takes a few goes with my system). Call up task manager, go to processes right click FF8 and select affinity and click one of the core checkboxes (it doesn't seem to matter which). I tried it last night and no crash. There is a way of doing it from the shortcut which would be rather more elegant. I'll try and find that and also find the original post so I can credit the guy who came up with this.

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[skados]

I have FF8 started and then set only CPU 0 as responsible in the Task Manager by mouse right click on properties. Since then, the game runs stable. Thanks for the tip. I have Win 7 and a dual core processor.

[Kurtz]

I'm also Win 7 with and AMD dual core. Her's what B33 ENN says about Civ 4 (But I guess it would work for FF 8).
Quote:
Originally Posted by alidan View Post
is there an easy way to make a game run single core? ...there a start up command i can put in to do this automatically?
To add to what the others have said. You can create a shortcut to start the game automatically as you like.

You need to Create a shortcut from the game's .exe file. So if, Sim City 4 file is called "simcity4.exe"...

Quote:
Originally Posted by Species8472 View Post
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 simcity4.exe
Then, similar to the above poster's reply:

1. Create the shortcut somewhere, like your Desktop
2. Open the shortcut Properties by <Right-Click>
3. Enter the following command into the Target: field:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "simcity4.exe" /affinity 1 "X:\...\simcity4.exe"
* The path in yellow is the full path to the folder where your Sim City 4 game is installed.

** The number in blue is a decimalised version of a binary number that relates to the specific core(s) of the CPU that you want to allocate. In this case, 1 will simply mean core zero of your system will be allocated. You can check this by using Task Manager while Sim City is running in the background (as per Graspee's post above).

[vipLink]

Thanks Kurtz, I tried everything, but your Solution was the only thing that worked.

I'm playing the Game with an AMD 64-Bit Dual-Core Processor on Win 7.
Experinced the same crash as the OP and multiple ones in between when quickly entering and exiting the World Map. All fixed since running on a single core and no other problems.

[Kurtz]

:)

[kdashu]

I tried Kurtz help, its work for some hour, but I think because Im using "Seed reborn" mod this is not 100%. Dont know, but when I received first rank sallary game crash again =/