Game hacking / lagging

[nergel]

i have searched through the forums and i haven't found any solution of my problem.

The game after installation is working extremely slow and i mean.... SLOOOW...


Here's the DxDiag info (instead of computer specs):
http://muaddib.sytes.net/DxDiag.txt

I hope that you can help me, i tried to install my old uplink version and updated it to v. 1.31 and that runs really smoothly i have turned off all AntiAliasing, Vertical Sync and Anisotrophic filtering but there is no change in the game working slow.

Tried Safe Mode, remove button animation, default worldmap...

nothing...

as i said, hope you can help me because i don't want to play with 1.31 anymore when there is new patches out there.


Tested Versions:

1.31 (Works Perfect)
1.54 (Lagging/Hacking)
1.55 (Lagging/Hacking)

Edit: Added more information

[frenchfrog]

Make sure there is no opengl32.dll file in Uplink directory?

[nergel]

i have tried with both opengl32.dll and without it... even deleted the opengl32.dll.bak ^^

[frenchfrog]

Perhaps related to processor affinity (AMD dual core bug)? Check Common Darwinia Bugs! --with-solutions or Dual-Core Lag.

If this solve your problem, update your bios and motherboard drivers.



Worse case, Perhaps try updating your NVIDIA GeForce 6600 video drivers.

[nergel]

It seems to work with the "Set Affinity" option in the task manager, now i just need to find a way to make a permanent change to that setting, it will become annoying after a couple of days ^^

[KingAl]

You'll notice I provided a permanent solution in the thread which frenchfrog referred you to.

Just create a txt file in the Uplink directory, enter the following into it:

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imagecfg -u uplink.exe
imagecfg -a 0x1 uplink.exe
pause

then rename the file, changing the file extension from 'txt' to 'bat'. Double click the file to run it like a normal program, and it'll permanently set affinity for 1 core (by 'masking' one of the cores to the program). This should have exactly the same effect as manually setting affinity every time.

[frenchfrog]

Or

If this solve your problem, update your bios and motherboard drivers.

[nergel]

You'll notice I provided a permanent solution in the thread which frenchfrog referred you to.

Just create a txt file in the Uplink directory, enter the following into it:

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imagecfg -u uplink.exe
imagecfg -a 0x1 uplink.exe
pause

then rename the file, changing the file extension from 'txt' to 'bat'. Double click the file to run it like a normal program, and it'll permanently set affinity for 1 core (by 'masking' one of the cores to the program). This should have exactly the same effect as manually setting affinity every time.

This solution did not work.

"Uplink.bat" returned this:

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D:\Uplink>imagecfg -u uplink.exe
'imagecfg' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

D:\Uplink>imagecfg -a 0x1 uplink.exe
'imagecfg' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

D:\Uplink>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

[KingAl]

Hrm. I presume that this means you just don't have 'imagecfg.exe' in your System32 folder for whatever reason - you can download it from here (place in C:\Windows\System32).

Alternatively, do as frenchfrog suggests and update motherboard and BIOS drivers.

[nergel]

Okay, now the imagecfg seems to work but now i get a helluva lot more info ^^

Information below:

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D:\Uplink>imagecfg -u uplink.exe
uplink.exe contains no configuration information
uplink.exe contains a Subsystem Version of 4.0
uplink.exe updated with the following configuration information:
    Image can only run in uni-processor mode on multi-processor systems
    Image can only run in uni-processor mode on multi-processor systems

D:\Uplink>imagecfg -a 0x1 uplink.exe
uplink.exe contains no configuration information
uplink.exe contains a Subsystem Version of 4.0
    Image can only run in uni-processor mode on multi-processor systems
uplink.exe updated with the following configuration information:
    Process Affinity Mask: 00000001

D:\Uplink>pause
Press any key to continue . . .

[KingAl]

That's exactly what it should do - it's just configured the exe so that one of the cores is masked, and it will as such behave as if running on a single processor.

You should be able to run the game without manually setting affinity now.

[nergel]

Yeah i noticed that later, i just thought that i would start uplink with the batch file every time.

But i thank you for your help and i am now happy i can play without hack/lagg and keep hacking =)