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I have a wierd sound bug happening in my production and I think also my research screen.

When I get in the production screen, it start adding in background sounds of factory noise and such. What happens though is that more sound effects are added and added and added, leading to a huge memory sink. this of course slows everything to a crawl. I exit the production screen and every is fine once again. I go back in and gradually the sounds start to accumulate once more.

Its not a game stopper, because it takes about a minute or two for the sounds to accumulate to such a degree. I suppose in some ways its prodding me along to not delay so much

asus P4C800
pentium-4 2.4GHz 800MHz
512MB 800MHz
nvidia geforce4
Sound Blaster Live! Gamer 5.1
windows xp SP2

I do not see a slowdown of the game on the production screen, but it actually seems that the sounds get more and more each minute.

Ciao Frank

thanks Frank Klein, at least I know I'm not going crazy!

ORIGINAL: aletoledo
I have a wierd sound bug happening in my production and I think also my research screen.

When I get in the production screen, it start adding in background sounds of factory noise and such. What happens though is that more sound effects are added and added and added, leading to a huge memory sink. this of course slows everything to a crawl. I exit the production screen and every is fine once again. I go back in and gradually the sounds start to accumulate once more.

Its not a game stopper, because it takes about a minute or two for the sounds to accumulate to such a degree. I suppose in some ways its prodding me along to not delay so much

I got the game yesterday and noticed the same problem. It takes a minute or two of clicking around the production screen, but after a while my harddrive starts thrashing like crazy. I just click out of the prod screen and then back when I hear the HD start churning and it clears it up. Still kinda annoying.


Asus P4C800-E
P-4 3.0Ghz 800Mhz
1G 400Mhz
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
M-Audio Audiophile 2496
WinXp Pro SP2

Same deal here, go into your bios and turn off Hyperthreading. Should help.

What about:
Simply launching WaW, launch Task Manager, then
click on Processes tab
select WaW.exe process
Right click and choose set Affinity
Set Affinity to only CPU 0 instead of both CPU 0 & 1.

I can't test this now because the bug has "gone away". I switched to windowed mode but I don't know if that's responsible. I'm also running Seti At Home which is tying up a virtual CPU.

I do recall that unpatched Syberia (an adventure game) also had a similar weird slowdown caused by HyperThreading. System Shock 2 requires the above procedure to get it to run correctly, since the last patch was long before HyperThreading became available.

Can anyone confrim if it's definitely a HyperThreading bug? Hopefully simple to patch.

I've got WinXP and when I right click on the WAW process in Windows Task Manager all I get is End Process, End Process Tree, Debug (blanked out) and Priority. Priority has about 5 options none of which is Affinity.

good suggestions guys, I'll test it out and report back my findings tomorrow. thanks!

Sorry Pappy if you don't have HyperThreading or multiple physical CPUs, you will not see the set Affinity option. If you have the production screen thrash bug then you should definitely report it to Matrix otherwise they'll think it's only on Hyperthreaded CPUs.

Thanks for the reply. I was wondering why I couldn't see it.

ok, setting the "affinity" worked for me. plus I don't seem to be having any more CTD/reboot issues.

thanks for the help guys