D3D is screwed up when using 2 cpus

[maorsela 0]

hello all, this prob just puzzles me.

 

i have an asus p2b-ds, dual p3-550.

 

when i run XP with just 1 cpu, everything is ok.

 

when i put the 2nd one in, D3D just messes up.

 

i have the Hercules Geforce256 ddr-dvi with 32mb agp.

 

any ideas?

[Gambler FEX online 0]

In what way is it screwed up and what games? I too have some problems... but most games work well. Starshiptroopers hangs in the menus and FF8 has garbled up textures and menus. Red faction, UT, quake3, sacrifice, evolva, mdk2 and giants works perfectly well.

 

Reason I post is my system specs are like yours:

 

Asus P2B-DS

2x P3

Hercules Geforce 3 ti 500

[maorsela 0]

well, it flickers and unplayable.

 

it looks like it renders the frames so quick.

 

even when i run a demo it does that.

 

any d3d app.

 

i tried to take all the cards out, didn't work.

 

i tried bios update to v1013, didn't work.

 

even sisoft sandra crashes when i try to get the motherboard info.

 

and it's all cause of having 2 cpus.

 

with 1 cpu it works fine.

 

i just ran out of ideas :-(

[pimpin_228 0]

That sounds like a driver issue to me cause black and white does that to me when i use the 8.04's

[Brian Frank 0]

Over at 2CPU they're are people that have had trouble running some games with dual processors. I don't remember all the fixes, but setting the CPU's to affinity seemed to work for some.

[Brian Frank 0]

Also, make sure you have the latest version of Sandra.