July 1st, 2003, 08:39 PM
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| Is it safe to disable hyper-threading?
I have a 2.8GHz with 800MHz fsb running on Windows 2000 Professional. I cannot run Red Alert 2 because of Hyper-Therading issues. Is it safe to disable hyper-threading in order to see if RA2 will play? Thanks.
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July 1st, 2003, 08:42 PM
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if it's possible to disable it then yeah it won't be a problem (only the latest p4's have it afterall). i couldn't tell you how to disable it though
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July 1st, 2003, 08:43 PM
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If its a BIOS option, go ahead and give it a try. But I think you will have much better gaming overall if you ditch 2000 and get XP.
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July 2nd, 2003, 12:40 PM
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There's no reason it would break anything. Most of the P4s had some form of HT, but only the latest ones have it enabled. Try it and see.
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July 3rd, 2003, 01:54 AM
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i read somewhere that hyperthreading can slow some things down, so i think it would be a good idea to disable anyway regardless of RA2
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July 4th, 2003, 03:18 PM
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Thats only with applications requesting HUGE (not adjective, noun) page spaces in XP SP1. Not normally something seen on the desktop.
MS released a patch for it anyway, but SocceRich20 isn't using XP. 2k Pro. | |
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July 5th, 2003, 10:33 PM
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of course its safe to disable HT. i dont think they would allow such an option in the BIOS if it was dangerous. go ahead and disable. | |
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July 8th, 2003, 09:46 PM
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| Quote: Originally posted by blackie
of course its safe to disable HT. i dont think they would allow such an option in the BIOS if it was dangerous. go ahead and disable. |  The last great words spoken at the last boot!  | |
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July 9th, 2003, 05:30 AM
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Hyperthreading was designed to be disabled! | |
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