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 Gameguru Mania News - Dec,05 2009 -  
Saboteur ATI Freezing Issue Workaround - tech
(hx) 04:00 PM CET - Dec,05 2009 - Post a comment / read (5)
Saboteur has a nasty freezing issue (thanks VE3D) that affects most ATI users when opening menus and the quest journal, and transitioning between areas. Some ATI gamers are able to play using Windows XP, but even then there are often problems. Pandemic is investigating the problems in conjunction with ATI. Here's a intermittently-working workaround:
We are currently digging into the issue at hand & are working as fast as possible to find a solution. In some of our tests we have found one workaround that seems to allow users to run the game. Some have posted adjusting the affinity process via “Task Manager” but our fix truly puts the system in a 1 core mode and will allow you to run the game. Overall this is not a final fix, nor a perfectly stable fix, but it will allow you to run the game. This work around is entirely base upon CPU processing power & will possibly only work for certain systems.

Steps to turn off cores: (For Windows 7)
1.) Open MSCONFIG (You can open it by entering MSCONFIG in the search bar)
2.) Select the “Boot” tab
3.) Click on “Advanced Options”
4.) Check “Number of Processors”
5.) Select “1” from dropdown menu
6.) Click “Apply”
7.) Restart machine

Steps to turn off cores: (For Windows Vista)
1.) Open MSCONFIG – Start> Run > Type MSCONFIG
2.) Select the “BOOT.INI” tab
3.) Click on “Advanced Options…”
4.) Select the check box for /NUMPROC= set it to 1 & click “OK”
5.) Click “Apply”
6.) Restart machine
last 10 comments:
Ozieo(07:16 PM CET - Dec,05 2009 )
That means they didn't even test it on 2 systems.........

And still they expect people to pay for this ? Good lord....

gx-x(06:26 PM CET - Dec,06 2009 )
amazing fix! ROFL

nb411(03:44 AM CET - Dec,07 2009 )
...and if you turn off ALL the cores, then there will never be any problems of any kind again! :P

psolord(12:54 PM CET - Dec,07 2009 )
Right. They want us to buy Quad Cores with Eight Threads, but then they want us to disable three of the cores? What the fuck? And we are waiting for multithreaded games? LOL

justCALLmeGOD(03:26 AM CET - Dec,09 2009 )
lol@nb411

so either they released this game knowing that it would crash on us or they are jus so ignorant that they didn't test it on a multicore machine with ati....hmmm i wonder which it could be...

thanx for my new $50 coaster pandemic =]

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