Well i did what you suggested and set it on one processor. Now when the game loaded all the way it blue screened on me and did a physical memory dump and restarted. I tried to switch the affinity to the other processor and it did the same thing. Kinda at a loss here. One more thing when i load the game normally and it just sits on opening screen it is running the processor at full load and then instently after i clock off the game to normal windows it cuts down the load to 2% work load on the processor. hope this is enough to point somone in the right direction for a solution. thanks