Missing/purple textues! already try luncher fix.

pgiambal

Zyblot wrote: »

2 690's sli turned off

Are you saying that you have an SR-2, with 2 graphics cards, and SLI off... and the game works fine - no purple textures on the character models or sound problems?

pgiambal

Oh wait, you're the original poster.

Well, we definitely all have one particular thing in common then... the SR-2

pgiambal

I COULD turn my PC off and then use the hardware jumpers to disable CPU 1 and PCI express slot 3... and that way I would only have 1 CPU and GPU... but to be honest I don't want to. I built this PC for a reason.

pgiambal

DUDES OMGZ

I just fixed it with a hella workaround!

I turned my PC off and disabled CPU 1 and PCIe 3 using hardware jumpers. No sound issues, no purple textures... just amazeness

I consider this a terrible workaround... but... it works!

I am now going to turn PCIe 3 back on and report back because I suspect this is more of a symmetric multi processing problem than an SLI problem.

Maybe I can even run two CPUs and run a BIOS option to fix it? I will keep reporting back.

Can either of you confirm this on your end?

Can we change the title of this post to say SR-2 in the title?

Teremol

I'm not very good when it comes to some of the more technical stuff, how would one go about disabling CPUs?

pgiambal

I have turned PCIe 3 back on and I have confirmed that it is now working with SLI on / off - no more purple and no more sound problem.

Now, I will reboot again to turn CPU 1 back on and then mess with BIOS options to find out if there some SMP option I can turn off to get the same effect without CPU disable.

Teremol wrote: »

how would one go about disabling CPUs?

Teremol, you may want to wait for my next post. However, if you want to confirm now, you would need to:
1) shut down gracefully
2) unplug the power cable
3) open the side panel
4) find the two CPU jumpers named "JCPU0" and "JCPU1" next to the top DIMM slots (top edge of motherboard) near the CPU
5) move the jumper for JCPU1 to the "off" position - 1 tick over.
6) plug in, turn on, test

EDIT: I am not responsible if you damage your computer.

pgiambal

Indeed, I turned CPU1 back on and then I turned off every NUMA/SMT option I could find in the BIOS and the problem has returned - sound and video problems.

The game is not compatible with symmetric multiprocessing systems somehow.

I am going to temporarily disable my CPU1 as described above so I can enjoy the game.

OP, if you can confirm this with your computer please mark this issue as resolved.

Forum admins, I am going to make a 2nd thread with SR-2 in the title and link it to this thread so other owners of this motherboard don't need to go through a whole day of troubleshooting like I did to get the game to play

pgiambal

I am posting a link to my newly titled thread here:

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/discussion/62059/evga-sr-2-sound-video-problems-dual-socket-cpu#latest

Zyblot

pgiambal wrote: »

Zyblot wrote: »

2 690's sli turned off

Are you saying that you have an SR-2, with 2 graphics cards, and SLI off... and the game works fine - no purple textures on the character models or sound problems?

no, im saying that what i got and still getting purple!

Zyblot

pgiambal wrote: »

DUDES OMGZ

I just fixed it with a hella workaround!

I turned my PC off and disabled CPU 1 and PCIe 3 using hardware jumpers. No sound issues, no purple textures... just amazeness

I consider this a terrible workaround... but... it works!

I am now going to turn PCIe 3 back on and report back because I suspect this is more of a symmetric multi processing problem than an SLI problem.

Maybe I can even run two CPUs and run a BIOS option to fix it? I will keep reporting back.

Can either of you confirm this on your end?

Can we change the title of this post to say SR-2 in the title?

Absolutely unacceptable.

pgiambal

Zyblot wrote: »

Absolutely unacceptable.

My first inclination is to agree with you but reality is real and if I want to play this game, this is what I have to do. There is a post in the Mac forum stating that dual socket CPU computers are not supported.

Bad programming if you ask me, but it is what it is.

Zyblot

Confirmed it dual cpu! sux!

Nelbereth

I have exactly the same problem, and I'm using a dual CPU with a 780ti, will try to disable one cpu see if it help!

xichor

Im having the same issue, Im running dual xeon e5-2630 and the game is unplayable. After about 4 minutes everything starts turning purple. Its unacceptable to ask the user to disable half of their machine in order to play this game.

Can anyone suggest an application that will dynamically limit it to less than the max amount of CPU's allowed? I tried to set affinity to only CPU0 but it made no difference.

xichor

bump?

Moonraker

xichor wrote: »

Im having the same issue, Im running dual xeon e5-2630 and the game is unplayable. After about 4 minutes everything starts turning purple. Its unacceptable to ask the user to disable half of their machine in order to play this game.

Can anyone suggest an application that will dynamically limit it to less than the max amount of CPU's allowed? I tried to set affinity to only CPU0 but it made no difference.

I don't know PCs well enough to give a direct answer and Google quickly did not give anything. But, on the Mac the way to workaround it is to disable half the available cores of the total from both separate CPU's. So, if you have 8 cores (2 x 4 core Xeon) disable 4 of those.

The dual CPU thread where we got the workaround (actually some Mac Pro's with dual CPU seem to work anyhow not sure why) is here.

When I read an article for Affinity it stated:

Disabling Cores Through Affinity
The Windows Task Manager allows processor core control through a feature called Processor Affinity. Windows gives all cores access to all programs by default, but this can be changed on a process by process basis. Affinity values return to their default settings on program close. Press "Ctrl-Shift-Esc" to launch the Task Manager, click the "Details" tab and locate the program you want to switch to single-core mode on the list. Right-click on the program and select "Set affinity." Dual-core CPUs will present three options: "All Processors," "CPU 0" and "CPU1." Uncheck the box next to "CPU 0" or "CPU1" and click "OK" to set the program to run in single-core mode.

source

Which seems to say that just disabling 'CPU 0' as you said, is only disabling one core not one whole CPU.

To duplicate this via Affinity I can't say but see if it is possible to disable half the cores and see if it works.

The game would need to be written to support dual CPU specifically and it is not supported currently (stated before and noted in Mac Known Issues) for either for Mac or PC.

Sorry I can't give a definitive reply but hope this might help at least get it working as this does fix the purple texture issue.

pgiambal

My recommendation would be to use hardware jumpers or BIOS options to disable one of the CPUs. If you have neither of these options, I am unsure how to disable the CPUs. I tried manually editing Affinity in the task manager earlier and it did not resolve the issue for me.