do fps's use more than one core...

[stinka]

.... and will they use more than 2 cores in the future

i ask this because i fancy an e8400 but wonder if a quad would be more future proof

i dont think fps games use more than one core at the moment, but what about crysis ?

 

[bledd]

some do, some don't

there is a list somewhere in this gaming forum of the games that do

 

[HeX]

UT3 and Crysis both use Quad's.

UT3 to a more effective end.

 

[Amnesia]

i will be happy when they release games that are optimized for dual cores....quad core just seems so far away.


there may be a few......but its only a few

 

[Blackhawk47]

yeh .. most new ones out now do .however most of the old ones dont unless there has been some sort of patch.

 

[helmutcheese]

Crytek have stated for now there is no gain over a Dual from a Quad, it dont even use my Dual fully.

 

[Spektor]

Was the source engine not updated a few months back to utilize multi-core environments? Aslong as the source game you play uses the latest version of the engine, TF2 / HL2 Ep2 then it should be utilizing more than one... although i'm not sure if CS: S / DOD: S got updated to the latest version of the engine, I know garrysmod did however so guess its hit or miss on that.

I don't think any game is yet to be built from the ground up with multicore in mind... atm I think they are just swapping off certain parts of the engine, like sound / physics, to a seperate CPU which whilst will give benefits I can't imagine is vastly optimized to show what multicore is really capable of in gaming.

 

[Blackhawk47]

Was the source engine not updated a few months back to utilize multi-core environments? Aslong as the source game you play uses the latest version of the engine, TF2 / HL2 Ep2 then it should be utilizing more than one... although i'm not sure if CS: S / DOD: S got updated to the latest version of the engine, I know garrysmod did however so guess its hit or miss on that.

I don't think any game is yet to be built from the ground up with multicore in mind... atm I think they are just swapping off certain parts of the engine, like sound / physics, to a seperate CPU which whilst will give benefits I can't imagine is vastly optimized to show what multicore is really capable of in gaming.

yeh they did but it was only used for i think particles (am i right) css and the like havent got dual core or quad support. though do they really need it ?

 

[Spektor]

well with CSS I guess they could have the 2nd core dedicated to working out how they managed to remove the skill from the game ^_^

 

[TheRedZealot]

CS:S seems to use both cores for me one more than the other though

 

[Skyboat]

I don't think any game is yet to be built from the ground up with multicore in mind... atm I think they are just swapping off certain parts of the engine, like sound / physics, to a seperate CPU which whilst will give benefits I can't imagine is vastly optimized to show what multicore is really capable of in gaming.

I think SupCom was, about the only game that really taxes a quad core CPU.

 

[QlimaxUK]

my UT3 is 'forced' to use 1 core (see sig) runs pretty smooth 30 - 60 fps, drops to 15/20 at 'bad times'

im having same prob choosing between q6600 and 8400

 

[HangTime]

You get massively diminishing returns from having more cores for FPS games (due to one or two threads needing the vast majority of the power). I can't imagine quadcore offering more than a meagre improvement over dualcore for the next couple of years.