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[m_kandefer]

Hello all

I've got the same problem as many users on this forum. My laptop (AMD Turion 64 1,8GHz + 1024 MB RAM + ATI X700 128 MB) was too good for this game (God, for the first time I can say it ). Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within was too slow or too fast. Thanks to my friends I've found solution. But before I've post it I must say that I've tried all good hints: AMD Dual-Core program (blah - I don't have dual-core processor, but I've tried anyway); changed power scheme to "always on" & play only on battery; I've run several programs in the background etc. Nothing worked. So I've posted a message on some polish forum and the first answer was a perfect solution:

1. Download the Prime95 program from here.
2. Install it
2a. Before you run it please read readme.txt because program can be run in two modes: Offline & Online. From readme you will know all the details.
3. Change the "free memory option" in CPU in Options menu
4. Play the PoP:WW

I hope that this solution will help you all. I think that different program, similar to Prime95, will solve this problem also. I know that this is developed third solution mentioned above, but I would never have an idea to install program like prime95

Best regards
Mateusz

edit: three more things
1) Remember to change the "free memory" value after playing the PoP (or disable Prime95)
2) After few hours playing PoP I can see that game is not working so perfect as I said earlier, but the slowing down is less annoying (almost invisible)
3) After running PoP with Prime95 in background remember that game won't be working "good-to-play" for few minutes (from 2 to 5 minutes), so be patient

edit2: There is also something that might irritate you at the beginning: there is no one, gold, configuration of Prime95 that will help you to run PoP: WW in normal speed. Everything depends on programs running in background. So the configuration of "max free memory" will be different if you are using for example AV & firewall and different when those programs are closed. You must experiment and find yourself how many memory you must free for programs that must be running in background.

I know that not everyone is reading readme file, so I will explain how to run it in online & offline mode (I've copied from readme.txt because there was written in very simple way). Note that choosing an option is individual way - both methods are working for PoP:WW.

ONLINE METHOD:

1) Run the setup program, p95setup.exe or download and unzip prime95.zip.
2) Connect to the Internet.
3) Run prime95.exe. You will see 4 dialog boxes:
3a) In the welcome dialog box, choose "Join GIMPS!".
3b) In the second dialog box, enter your name and email address. Optionally enter a user ID, password, and computer ID. If you are using several computers, use the same user ID and password but a unique computer ID on each machine. An easy-to-remember user ID will be helpful if you plan to visit the PrimeNet server's web page to view reports on your progress. If you do not enter a user ID or if you pick a user ID that is already in use, then the server will assign a user ID.
3c) In the third dialog box, fill in roughly how many hours a day you leave your computer running. Click OK.
3d) In the fourth dialog box, leave the "Use Primenet..." checkbox checked Do not turn this checkbox off even if you disconnect from the Internet. Check the "Use a dial-up..." checkbox if you use a modem to connect to the Internet. Note that prime95 will not dial-up to connect to the Internet, rather it waits for a time when you are already connected to contact the server. Click OK. Prime95 will now contact the PrimeNet server to get some work for your computer to do.
4a) If a proxy server is the causing connection troubles, see the later section on "SETTING UP A PROXY SERVER".
4b) If the program will not connect to the server, then you will have to use the manual method described below.
5) Disable screen savers or use the "blank screen" screen saver. If this is not practical, consider raising prime95's priority to 4 or 5.

OFFLINE METHOD:

1) Use the Web (http://mersenne.org/ips/manualtests.html) to create a userid for yourself and to get a set of exponents to work on. Alternatively, you can get some work from http://www.mersenne.org/range2.htm. Copy these exponents to a file called worktodo.ini
2) Run prime95.exe. You will see 4 dialog boxes:
2a) In the welcome dialog box, choose "Join GIMPS!".
2b) In the second dialog box, enter your name and email address. Click OK.
2c) In the third dialog box, fill in roughly how many hours a day you leave your computer running. Click OK.
2d) In the fourth dialog box, uncheck "Use PrimeNet to get work and report results", click OK.
3) Disable screen savers or use the "blank screen" screen saver. If this is not practical, consider raising prime95's priority to 4 or 5.
4) Once a month or when done with your exponents, use the web pages again to send the file "results.txt" to the PrimeNet server. It is important to do this so the exponents you are testing are not reassigned to someone else.

[m_kandefer]

Hello all

I've got the same problem as many users on this forum. My laptop (AMD Turion 64 1,8GHz + 1024 MB RAM + ATI X700 128 MB) was too good for this game (God, for the first time I can say it ). Prince Of Persia: Warrior Within was too slow or too fast. Thanks to my friends I've found solution. But before I've post it I must say that I've tried all good hints: AMD Dual-Core program (blah - I don't have dual-core processor, but I've tried anyway); changed power scheme to "always on" & play only on battery; I've run several programs in the background etc. Nothing worked. So I've posted a message on some polish forum and the first answer was a perfect solution:

1. Download the Prime95 program from here.
2. Install it
2a. Before you run it please read readme.txt because program can be run in two modes: Offline & Online. From readme you will know all the details.
3. Change the "free memory option" in CPU in Options menu
4. Play the PoP:WW

I hope that this solution will help you all. I think that different program, similar to Prime95, will solve this problem also. I know that this is developed third solution mentioned above, but I would never have an idea to install program like prime95

Best regards
Mateusz

edit: three more things
1) Remember to change the "free memory" value after playing the PoP (or disable Prime95)
2) After few hours playing PoP I can see that game is not working so perfect as I said earlier, but the slowing down is less annoying (almost invisible)
3) After running PoP with Prime95 in background remember that game won't be working "good-to-play" for few minutes (from 2 to 5 minutes), so be patient

edit2: There is also something that might irritate you at the beginning: there is no one, gold, configuration of Prime95 that will help you to run PoP: WW in normal speed. Everything depends on programs running in background. So the configuration of "max free memory" will be different if you are using for example AV & firewall and different when those programs are closed. You must experiment and find yourself how many memory you must free for programs that must be running in background.

I know that not everyone is reading readme file, so I will explain how to run it in online & offline mode (I've copied from readme.txt because there was written in very simple way). Note that choosing an option is individual way - both methods are working for PoP:WW.

ONLINE METHOD:

1) Run the setup program, p95setup.exe or download and unzip prime95.zip.
2) Connect to the Internet.
3) Run prime95.exe. You will see 4 dialog boxes:
3a) In the welcome dialog box, choose "Join GIMPS!".
3b) In the second dialog box, enter your name and email address. Optionally enter a user ID, password, and computer ID. If you are using several computers, use the same user ID and password but a unique computer ID on each machine. An easy-to-remember user ID will be helpful if you plan to visit the PrimeNet server's web page to view reports on your progress. If you do not enter a user ID or if you pick a user ID that is already in use, then the server will assign a user ID.
3c) In the third dialog box, fill in roughly how many hours a day you leave your computer running. Click OK.
3d) In the fourth dialog box, leave the "Use Primenet..." checkbox checked Do not turn this checkbox off even if you disconnect from the Internet. Check the "Use a dial-up..." checkbox if you use a modem to connect to the Internet. Note that prime95 will not dial-up to connect to the Internet, rather it waits for a time when you are already connected to contact the server. Click OK. Prime95 will now contact the PrimeNet server to get some work for your computer to do.
4a) If a proxy server is the causing connection troubles, see the later section on "SETTING UP A PROXY SERVER".
4b) If the program will not connect to the server, then you will have to use the manual method described below.
5) Disable screen savers or use the "blank screen" screen saver. If this is not practical, consider raising prime95's priority to 4 or 5.

OFFLINE METHOD:

1) Use the Web (http://mersenne.org/ips/manualtests.html) to create a userid for yourself and to get a set of exponents to work on. Alternatively, you can get some work from http://www.mersenne.org/range2.htm. Copy these exponents to a file called worktodo.ini
2) Run prime95.exe. You will see 4 dialog boxes:
2a) In the welcome dialog box, choose "Join GIMPS!".
2b) In the second dialog box, enter your name and email address. Click OK.
2c) In the third dialog box, fill in roughly how many hours a day you leave your computer running. Click OK.
2d) In the fourth dialog box, uncheck "Use PrimeNet to get work and report results", click OK.
3) Disable screen savers or use the "blank screen" screen saver. If this is not practical, consider raising prime95's priority to 4 or 5.
4) Once a month or when done with your exponents, use the web pages again to send the file "results.txt" to the PrimeNet server. It is important to do this so the exponents you are testing are not reassigned to someone else.

[kakalukiaJay]

What sort of "free publicity" are you trying to market for that software?
That "prime" software hooks a computer up to other computers over the Internet potentially putting your computer at risk.
What does that have to do with making Warrior Within work?
m_kandefer, please explain.
Ubisoft forum visitors, please be aware of what that software could do to your computer.

[m_kandefer]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by kakalukiaJay:
What sort of "free publicity" are you trying to market for that software?
That "prime" software hooks a computer up to other computers over the Internet potentially putting your computer at risk.
What does that have to do with making Warrior Within work?
m_kandefer, please explain.
Ubisoft forum visitors, please be aware of what that software could do to your computer. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I'm not trying to market anything... As I was writing that solution were given on other forum... Still I wrote also that similar to Prime95 program can be used too...

I'm not computer expert, but I was looking a program which will run in background and use some of my CPU (one of the earlier solutions were suggesting it). Some user told me that Prime95 is good for this & I've downloaded this program, read "readme.txt" file & use it. After that PoP:WW worked just fine.

I don't understand your way of thinking. I'm trying to help and you're accusing me of something. Have you downloaded this program? Answer is quick NO. Read the "readme.txt" from it and you will know that Prime can be used in 2 modes: ONLINE & OFFLINE - so what's the problem? If you don't want to sent data to server just block it on firewal or run it in offline mode. Right?

[kakalukiaJay]

I would recommend a specific "cpu killer" program that does what it advertises instead of "just any other program that will incidently consume some cpu cycles".

I got you to disclose more information about the program than what you originally posted. You recently added that the program may be run in an offline mode.

I caution forum members to be aware of programs that run on your computer and access the Internet.

[m_kandefer]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by kakalukiaJay:
I would recommend a specific "cpu killer" program that does what it advertises instead of "just any other program that will incidently consume some cpu cycles".

I got you to disclose more information about the program than what you originally posted. You recently added that the program may be run in an offline mode.

I caution forum members to be aware of programs that run on your computer and access the Internet. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Ok so I add a note (point 2a) about working this program. Yes, I recently added information about working of this program, but for me this is normal when I download new software: before first run I read manual/readme file... You've right that I should inform about this. Sorry for my previous post, I've got some health problems and sometimes I'm just too nervous. If there's something else to correct please inform me.

[kakalukiaJay]

I try to solve problems game players have with the puzzles and strategy in the various games.
When "third party software" is involved, I try to understand what it does with what sort of risks.
Thank you for your information regarding that Prime95 software.