Processor Discrepancy

[Guest]

I have a:

Dell Inspiron 9300 running XP Media Center 2005
Pentium M 760 - 2Ghz
2 Gb RAM
nVidia GeForce Go 6800 256 Mb

Saturday, I downloaded Age of Empires III trial. After installing, I ran
the program and an error message popped up stating that I didn't have the
necessary processor speed to run the game. It said my processor was running
at around 500 Mhz (a high reading was just below 700 Mhz and a low reading
was just above 300 Mhz). I thought that because it was a trial, they hadn't
worked out the kinks. Yesterday, a friend lent me Star Wars Republic Comando
and I received the same message. I called Dell support and after running a
couple of tests, the gentleman I spoke to said, that I was running at my 2Ghz
and there was nothing he could do.

I've run several other games (Doom 3, Knights of the Old Republic, Far Cry)
with no problems.

What is it about AoE III and SW Republic Comando that is preventing me from
playing these games? Are there processes running in Media Edition that are
causing conflicts?

 

[Jimmy S.]

Hi,

What might help workaround that problem, at least to get the
games installed is to run the setup program in high priority mode
which will make your processor work faster and therefore allow
the game installation program to detect that it's fast enough.

Click Start / Run and use the following command syntax:
start /high d:setup.exe
* replace d: with path to setup program
** replace setup.exe with name of setup.program

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|I have a:
|
| Dell Inspiron 9300 running XP Media Center 2005
| Pentium M 760 - 2Ghz
| 2 Gb RAM
| nVidia GeForce Go 6800 256 Mb
|
| Saturday, I downloaded Age of Empires III trial. After installing, I ran
| the program and an error message popped up stating that I didn't have the
| necessary processor speed to run the game. It said my processor was running
| at around 500 Mhz (a high reading was just below 700 Mhz and a low reading
| was just above 300 Mhz). I thought that because it was a trial, they hadn't
| worked out the kinks. Yesterday, a friend lent me Star Wars Republic Comando
| and I received the same message. I called Dell support and after running a
| couple of tests, the gentleman I spoke to said, that I was running at my 2Ghz
| and there was nothing he could do.
|
| I've run several other games (Doom 3, Knights of the Old Republic, Far Cry)
| with no problems.
|
| What is it about AoE III and SW Republic Comando that is preventing me from
| playing these games? Are there processes running in Media Edition that are
| causing conflicts?
|

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Locate and download the Intel core porcessor validation utility. This
will check to see if the processor matches the "supposed" speed rating.

 

[Guest]

Hi
I'm Evan and i'v heard of your problum and i think that since your RAM is so
High its confusing the OS, The program, Or the Mother board.

 

[Guest]

No.This this Intel Speed Step technology of Pentium M(your processor).It
reduces the clock speeed to 600MHz when idel and full throat to 2.0GHz when
require more processing power.dont worry, when u play the game it will auto
turn to 2.0Ghz.If needed 2.0Ghz b4 enter the game, run some program that
needs heavy processing power 1st then the game