COD Black Ops, HP Workstation xw4200

Hello,

I recently got a DVD of Call of Duty Black Ops, as I had played it on the Xbox 360 and it was pretty fun.

So I installed it on my HP Workstation xw4200; specs are:

Gigabyte GeForce 9500 GT, 1GB DDR2
1GB RAM (Soon to be upgraded)
Intel Pentium 4 (541) 3.20ghz

Now, according to what I read, black ops requires 2 threads, and that CPU is supposed to support hyper threading - yet it doesn't show up in the BIOS, and I downloaded the HP Workstation hyperthreading utility, pressed the button to turn hyperthreading on. It then says 'No Changes have been made'. Now, I definately know that hyperthreading ISN'T enable, So I clicked off and it said I had to restart for the changes to take effect. I did that, then clicked ON for it, and told me to restart again. I did that, but I still only get one gra-ph in the Task Manager, and device manager...

Is there some way I can get Black Ops running without hyperthreading, and if not, how can I enable it?

i dont think you need hyper threading anyway because alot of people on youtube dont have it and still run it but i recommend take the graphics card out and get a dual core you will get much better performance to run a dual core than a pentium 4 with hyper threading

no i dont think it will give the hyper threading option if you upgrade bios because some computers dont support hyper threading and i would not liquid cool a pentium 4 you could buy a way better pc with the prices of liquid cooling but if you want to cool your pc a little bit better you can download " speed fan " its a software that alows you to control the fan speed. increase it a little bit but if you dont care how loud your pc is just put it on 100 percent

Well, I am not sure you understand - this computer is a HP one, and it came with the watercooling installed. Well, I presume it has as it has pipes going into the heatsink.

I am pretty sure the CPU does support HT as in CPU-Z it says it is a Pentium 4 541, and on the Intel site it says it has hyperthreading support. Maybe it is wrong, I don't know.

Ok, will try and get back to you. Finger's crossed!

Hm... well, I can get it to run on lowest settings on another computer with HT enabled, the specs are:

Intel Pentium 4 3.0ghz HT Enabled
GeForce 9400 GT 512mb
2GB DDR2

It runs almost smoothly, on lowest settings, so I had hoped that with my other ones 9500GT 1GB would run it medium settings.

I am looking around to see whats the best bang for your buck, in terms of Core 2 cpu's, but most are pretty expensive. That is why I had hoped to get it working on my P4.

What does my computer not meet? Just the CPU or other things? I am going to upgrade the memory to 4GB if that is what you meant...


Also, how can I tell what CPU's my computer supports? Anyone know?

EDIT: I u[dated the BIOS to v1.09, still no luck - it won't show up in the BIOS.

Is their anyone else who has this computer who can get HT working? If I go into CPU-Z, then it says it is a pentium 4 541 - the intel site says that one supports HT.