Grim Fandango - hyper threading?

[John]

Hello,

I cannot get the Lucasarts game "Grim Fandango" to work
on Windows XP. I have an ATI Radeon 9800 and a Dell
Dimension 8300 PC. I have the Directx driver updated and
tried various suggestions from the Lucasarts Website and
the forums. One suggestion I got from someone was
turning off hyper threading. I'm not that good with
technical stuff, can anyone tell me what hyper threading
is, and if there is a way to safely turn it off? I'd
love an email reply if at all possible. Thanks!

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[Mark Salloway]

Hi John
What's the exact problem you having with Grim Fandango? Do you have to date
drivers for your motherboard chipset, video card and sound card?
I've got a fairly similar system with hyperthreading and a copy of Grim
Fandango. I was able to install it okay by using the setup program in
\install and the game appears to start and run okay with Hyperthreading
enabled here, the only issue I had was that I was using an older version of
a creative sound driver which caused popping noises and hangs after the
intro.
If you want to disable hyperthreading you can do so in your machines bios,
restart the system and hold F2 on the screen with the Dell logo. Once the
Bios is loaded you should see an option near the CPU information to enable
or disable hyperthreading.
You can see more information about hyperthreading here:
http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/

Mark

 

[Joan]

I have the same system and ATI 9800 and it works so far for me.
I had to use the compatibility mode for Win98. I have hyper
threading on. You can turn it off in bios. I have ATI drivers
from ATI site and Direct X 9. I have not installed Direct 9.0b.

Joan