The Saboteur Not Running on New i7 6 Core Processor

[Vodoochild81]

The game will not run and after a lot of time wasted I found out the reason was this game will only run on 2 cores and you need to disable the other ones. The game will not even run long enough to change this setting in Task Manager via Affinity....However, I booted into my bios to do this and the game seemed to work fine but then caused all sorts of problems with my machine! I should not have to go to this length to play a video game because EA irresponsibly stopped development on it since Pandemic went under shortly after release.

My operating system is windows 8.1..If anyone knows a safe and easy way to get around this please let me know. thanks.

 

[Dunlop0078]

Sorry to insult your intelligence if you have already done this but i will ask anyways have you turned on windows 7 compatibility mode? And run it as adminastrator? And a quad core cpu is recommended for the saboteur some im not entirely sure that your 6 core cpu is the issue that is usually only true for very old games.

 

[Dunlop0078]

And what does it do? Just not launch or do anything? Do you get an error message?

 

[Dunlop0078]

Here is an article i found it may be the one you were already looking at, it does indeed say to disable the cores.

http://www.giantbomb.com/the-saboteur/3030-21616/forums/solutions-to-pc-problems-380545/

 

[Vodoochild81]

Yes I tried all compatibility modes from Windows XP and up and ran as Admin. It is absolutely the core issue because as I said in my post the game worked when I booted into my bios and only activated two cores, as is one of the solutions I googled...

It gives me no message. The game just does not start.

Why are you running this game fine?

 

[Vodoochild81]

I just saw your post. Yea, that Giantbomb link is one of the resources I found telling me that...I just don't want to have to mess with that. Rebooting and booting just to play a game? Is that the only way? I have read you can do it with Affinity in Task Manager, but the game doesn't even start so I can't disable the cores...Is there another way to disable cores for a specific application and not the entire computer?

 

[Dunlop0078]

Do you have a AMD GPU?

 

[Dunlop0078]

I just saw your post. Yea, that Giantbomb link is one of the resources I found telling me that...I just don't want to have to mess with that. Rebooting and booting just to play a game? Is that the only way? I have read you can do it with Affinity in Task Manager, but the game doesn't even start so I can't disable the cores...Is there another way to disable cores for a specific application and not the entire computer?

You dont have to launch it to disable the cores i believe. It says to find the sabotouer.exe in your program files x86, and you right click on it and there should be an option about processors in there that will let you disable the cores for just that game. I will be able to give you more detailed instructions when i get home in a few hours im on my laptop right now and i dont have any games on it so i cant replicate that process and give you the steps.

 

[Dunlop0078]

Do you have this on steam? If you do you can try this. Right click on the saboteur in steam go to properties then set launch options i believe and type in -CPUcount:2 that might work.

 

[Vodoochild81]

I do not have AMD...2 Geforce 980's SLI..but its not the SLI as again it worked when I disabled the cores in the bios...

I don't think the game is available on Steam, it's running through Origin. Can I enter -CPUcount:2 that there?

As far as right clicking the .exe in the folder, I don't see that option anywhere, and didn't read that anywhere. Everywhere I read said it is done via task manager when the program is running, which makes no sense to me. How would an application shut down cores mid process....If you can give me more details that would be great...Is it right click then properties?

 

[Dunlop0078]

I do not have AMD...2 Geforce 980's SLI..but its not the SLI as again it worked when I disabled the cores in the bios...

I don't think the game is available on Steam, it's running through Origin. Can I enter -CPUcount:2 that there?

As far as right clicking the .exe in the folder, I don't see that option anywhere, and didn't read that anywhere. Everywhere I read said it is done via task manager when the program is running, which makes no sense to me. How would an application shut down cores mid process....If you can give me more details that would be great...Is it right click then properties?

Yah probably if origin has something similar. And yes i agree shutting down cores while the game is running does not sound right i doubt that would work if you even can. I can help more when i get home home im crippled here, my school blocks the damn steam forums so and a bunch of other forums so its hard for me to find any good info on it. I'll have some more info for you in a few hours.

 

[Vodoochild81]

Thanks..but where did you read in that post a about right clicking in program files...it says this...

1. The Saboteur won't run on a computer using an ATI graphics card
Solution: Patch the game at the following link:
http://www.pandemicstudios.com/thesaboteur/patch

2. The Saboteur won't run on a computer with a quad-core processor.
Symptoms: The first cutscene lags and flickers like hell.
Solution: Turn of processor core 3 and 4 while running the game.
1. Start the game
2. When at the main menu, hit ctrl-alt-del, click the activity handler(? I only know what it's in Swedish, something like that though) make sure that you have your desktop in the background, not the game.
3. Click processes
4. Right-click TheSaboteur.exe and select the option that has to do with processors(Yet again, dunno what it's on computers from other countries)
5. Uncheck processor 2 and 3.
6. Click ok and quit activity handler(manager?)
7. Alt tab back into the game.

 

[Dunlop0078]

Yah i read it wrong.

But i may have found a solution. How comfortable are you with command prompt?

Try this: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/change-the-processor-affinity-setting-in-windows-7-to-gain-a-performance-edge/

Go to were it says "from a shortcut".
Do what it says but instead of putting dfrgui.exe at the end put thesaboteur.exe.

 

[Vodoochild81]

i tried that but it did not work. I am not sure if I did it correctly. The game is not installed on my C Drive. Would the command prompts be different? It's on a drive called X.

This is what they say to enter....

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start /affinity 1 dfrgui.exe

I entered this.

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /X start /affinity 1 saboteur.exe

 

[Vodoochild81]

Should I move this thread into Systems or Windows? Maybe this is beyond gaming?