ThirteenAG
[Issue] NFSU2 - Crashing upon startup with SingleCoreAffinity on
Heya there, big fan of your work.
This is going to be a bit nuanced and long but I'm hoping by providing the following information, it can help potentially find a solution.
I've noticed recently that Windows 11 (24H2) doesn't seem to be setting the core affinity correctly and causes the game to crash on startup. It's not really consistent either, as it runs fine with this option enabled on my ASUS ROG Ally on the same OS version, but crashes on my main desktop (as well as my lounge room PC) that are both running 24H2. I doubt any hardware configuration is causing it but the LR-PC and my main rig are Intel+NVIDIA and AMD+NVIDIA respectively with the Ally being a Ryzen APU.
First, edit SingleCoreAffinity to be 0 in the Widescreen config file, then you can boot the game, with it entering a Not Responding state. If you then change the core affinity manually in Task Manager it can boot up/come out of the Not Responding state. This is where it gets tricky though. You'll need to edit the priority of it to be 'Realtime' to make it past the main menu but then to avoid it crashing further you'll need to drop it back down to Normal.
Basically, after you jump through all of those hoops, it runs. Obviously, that's not ideal.
I don't know if you have a logging tool baked into the script at all, or have a self-developed one outside of such, but if you need anything further, let me know.
Check this: https://github.com/ThirteenAG/WidescreenFixesPack/issues/1573#issuecomment-2817042692
