I notice that a fix commonly needed for System Shock 2 is a patch that solves a compatibility issue with hyperthreading.
Is this a common problem with running older games?
It's not hyperthreading but multithreading that is the problem.
I wouldn't say that it is a common problem but it is one of the many things you have to keep in mind when troubleshooting old and new games.
There's no easy way to tell that multithreading is causing a problem, though, is there? Aside from disabling it in the BIOS or through Task Manager?
No. Not really. A typical symptom is that the game crashes when you know it should work. In those cases you set the affinity of the program to a single processor and if you start the game and it works then you know that most likely it's a threading problem.
Anything more involved requires debugging/programming experience.
wrote:A typical symptom is that the game crashes when you know it should work.
...Because of course it's just that easily to eliminate every other possible cause of a crash. 😉
