Game Issues With Multiprocessor/Hyperthreading Systems If you're reading this you probably already know that Thief, Thief

Gold, Thief 2 , System Shock 2, as well as Grim Fandango don't like multiprocessor/hyperthread ing systems. The non-permanent way to fix this problem is to: 1. Start the game(go only as far as the menu). 2. Alt-Tab out of it. 3. Bring up the task manager(Ctrl-Alt-Del then T). 4. Click on the processes tab. 5. Find thief.exe / thief2.exe as well as thief2.icd for thief 2 / grimfandango. exe for Grim Fandango. 6. Right click on it/them and go to set affinity. 7. Uncheck one of the cpus. 8. Alt-Tab back into the game and play. This will need to be done every time you start the game as this is not a permane nt solution. The permanent way to fix this problem(without turning off Hyperthreading) is thi s: 1. Download imagecfg. 2. Unzip it to Windows\system32\ as well as Windows\system32\dllcache\. 3. Make a backup copy of your exe and icd(for Thief 2 and System Shock 2) files. 4. Open notepad and enter the following for Thief/G: imagecfg -u thief.exe imagecfg -a 0x1 thief.exe pause For Thief 2 imagecfg -u imagecfg -u imagecfg -a imagecfg -a pause it's: thief2.exe thief2.icd 0x1 thief2.exe 0x1 thief2.icd

For System Shock 2 it's: imagecfg -u shock2.exe imagecfg -u shock2.icd imagecfg -a 0x1 shock2.exe imagecfg -a 0x1 shock2.icd pause For Grim Fandango it's: imagecfg -u GRIMFANDANGO.EXE imagecfg -a 0x1 GRIMFANDANGO.EXE pause 5. Save the file in the game directory as "processor.bat" including the quotes. 6. Double click the file processor.bat (must be in the game directory). You will see something similar to the following: D:\Games\Thief2>imagecfg -u thief2.exe thief2.exe contains contains no configuration information thief2.exe contains a Subsystem Version of 4.0 thief2.exe updated with the following configuration information: Image can only run in uni-processor mode on multi-processor systems Image can only run in uni-processor mode on multi-processor systems

D:\Games\Thief2>imagecfg -u thief2.icd thief2.icd contains no configuration information thief2.icd contains a Subsystem Version of 4.0 thief2.icd updated with the following configuration information: Image can only run in uni-processor mode on multi-processor systems Image can only run in uni-processor mode on multi-processor systems D:\Games\Thief2>imagecfg -a 0x1 thief2.exe thief2.exe contains the following configuration information: thief2.exe contains a Subsystem Version of 4.0 Image can only run in uni-processor mode on multi-processor systems thief2.exe updated with the following configuration information: Process Affinity Mask: 00000001 D:\Games\Thief2>imagecfg -a 0x1 thief2.icd thief2.icd contains no configuration information thief2.icd contains a Subsystem Version of 4.0 Image can only run in uni-processor mode on multi-processor systems thief2.icd updated with the following configuration information: Process Affinity Mask: 00000001 D:\Games\Thief2>pause Press any key to continue . . . 7. Load the game and play.