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Torment Planescape Torment technical difficulties.

Orderian

Orderian

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Hello again Codexians! How are you all? I was wondering if you could afford me some more advice/help? After getting back into the game, Im noticing that PS:T seems to be using only 1 Core from my CPU and as such my shoddy old laptop is spinning up the fan to cool it, resulting in a very distracting noise. Is this normal? Can I fix it? My laptop isnt great, but I feel it should run a game from 1999 without too much stress.

Here are my specs: Compaq Preasrio CQ61. Pentium Dual-Core T4200 @ 2GHZ. 4MB RAM. Windows 7x64.

Id be grateful for any assistance. :)
 
Marquis de Lirium

Marquis de Lirium

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It's perfectly normal that it uses only one core - programs back then weren't written with multiprocessing in mind. Not sure about the fan though. The game probably runs at whatever speed it can get out of the CPU, which means that on newer systems it's producing mostly heat. That might be annoying, but shouldn't be a problem.
 
Orderian

Orderian

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Awesome, thank you. I have Core Temp running showing me where the Loads are etc. I did recently set my laptop to boot up with both cores and I have tried setting PS:T Core Affinity to both CPUs and/or using the second CPU to see if that helps. Its just loud and annoying, the new Enhanced Edition games dont do this, were they optimized for more than one core?
 
No Great Name

No Great Name

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Your processor should be fine even with a single core. System requirements for Planescape Torment specify 1.33 GHz only.
 
rohand

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Do not worry about any of the classic IE games hardware-wise, you should be fine.

It does look like your laptop may have some dust problem in its cooler. Have you tried vacuuming it or stg?
 
GarfunkeL

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Clean out your laptop properly, it's most likely a dust issue. Don't just vacuum the ventilation ports - open the bad boy up completely. One of my older laptops got a 12-month life extension after I did that. There is no way for you to get PST to run on two cores but you could force it to be on the second one while Windows uses the first one - this might help share the load a tiny bit.
 
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