Hey DF,

I'm having the exact same problem you described. Could you please tell me in greater detail how you fixed it?

Thank you.

1) Run the game
2) On the main menu, use Control+alt+delete to bring up the task manager
3) select the processes tab
4) find the process for the game
5) right click and 'set affinity'
6) Disable the second CPY listed (if more than one)

that should do it, but you have to do it every time which isn't ideal, anyone got a better solution?

Hey all, one nice little freeware item I found for older games running on newer multi-core computers is Launch n Set. It can be found, and dlld here: http://www.brothersoft.com/launch-n-set-141709.html

It worked like a charm for me with my XP computer and dual core AMD processor which was crashing the game frequently, especially each time I would enter a battle screen. This simple utility basically allows you to just launch the game from it, and already has the presets for using just one of your processor cores (You set it to one core after dropping the game's exe. file into the target line of the utility on your desktop). Once you have the game saved to the Launch and Set Utility, you just launch it from there, and it basically saves you the steps of having to bring up the task manager everytime, and do it manually. Made the game go from basically unplayable for me, to working great :). Hope this helps some peeps. Happy Gaming!

If you want a more permanent solution without any kind of fiddling afterwards you could try an old little tool called "imageCFG". It changes the exe file somehow so that it uses only the CPU(s) you want it to. You can can find the tool and instructions on this site: http://www.thief-thecircle.com/guides/hyperthreading/
It's about the Thief games but I tried it with many other games over the years and it worked with most. I also tested it succesfully with AOW2.