This seemed the right place to ask, so here goes. I've been getting annoying skipping in Empire: Total War with the cinematics. The rest of the game is fine, besides the huge number of bugs and crashes, but anyway. This is apparently a Bink video problem, and none of the "solutions" in other forums seem to work, such as taking a .dll from another game and sticking it in the ETW folder...
Then i ran into the Bink FAQ [footnote]http://www.radgametools.com/binkfaq.htm[/footnote] saying that on older cpus (mine's about 2 and a half years old now) adding "/usepmtimer" to the boot.ini file will resolve this.
My question is, what on earth does this do? I've done a bit of searching, and i still don't understand it. Can anyone else explain this better? And does anyone have any experience with this, ie, does it actually work?
Cheers.
Then i ran into the Bink FAQ [footnote]http://www.radgametools.com/binkfaq.htm[/footnote] saying that on older cpus (mine's about 2 and a half years old now) adding "/usepmtimer" to the boot.ini file will resolve this.
My question is, what on earth does this do? I've done a bit of searching, and i still don't understand it. Can anyone else explain this better? And does anyone have any experience with this, ie, does it actually work?
Cheers.
