Re: [AD] Re: Windows Allegro on Multi-processor machines

[AJ <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

have'nt followed this thread so far, excuse me if im stating the obviuos:

to make allegro work on multi-cpu machines, i think all the allegro 
threads need to set  win32::SetThreadAffinityMask()
to the first processor.

aj.



Andrei Ellman wrote:
> Elias Pschernig wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 18:04 +0200, Andrei Ellman wrote:
> >
> > > Note that this affects WIP 4.1.11 and WIP 4.1.9, but not 4.0.3.
> > > Alas, the machine that demonstrated these problems was destroyed by a 
> > > power-surge, so I'd have to track down another machine with the same 
> > > problem (but at least I was able to get SiSoft Sandra to produce a 
> > > diagnostic-report on the machine which I still have). I've tried this 
> > > on several machines and the game worked fine. It was just this one 
> > > multi-processor machine running Windows 98 that caused intermittent 
> > > freezes.
> > Ah, thanks. There's a chance that this already got fixed by enabling
> > locking under windows (in one of the last betas). So unless it is
> > reproduce again with the latest beta, let's just assume it is fixed :)
>
>
> It's good to know that at least something was done that's likely to fix 
> the problem, but my mind will only be at rest when I can find a machine 
> where my game shows the problem, but not when compiled with the latest 
> beta.
>
> Unless such a machine can be found, I'll just hope that it's fixed, and 
> place a warning in my docs to run in windowed mode if the problem occurs.
>
>
> AE.
>
>
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