Dual/multi core games.

lay-z-boy · 4 Mar 2007 at 18:33

Ah, indeed, my bad, didn't read it properly.

snowdog · 4 Mar 2007 at 18:47

lay-z-boy said:
Need for speed : Carbon is multithreaded

will test a few others as well

Are you sure, carbon is lagging as hell when i turn my hyper threading on, while without HT its ultra smooth pretty much maxed out....

lay-z-boy · 4 Mar 2007 at 18:55

snowdog said:
Are you sure, carbon is lagging as hell when i turn my hyper threading on, while without HT its ultra smooth pretty much maxed out....

Keep your fake core's to yourself

Uses both core's on my desktop and laptop.

titaniumx3 · 4 Mar 2007 at 18:56

modo77 said:
No it does increase fps a lot. I upgraded to a X2 3800 from 3500 single core for oblivion and the Fps was almost double.

Made little or no difference for me. :confused:

Darkwave · 4 Mar 2007 at 19:00

My Oblivion FPS shot up when I went from a single core Newcastle 3400+ @ 4000+ to an E6300 @ stock.

titaniumx3 · 4 Mar 2007 at 19:04

Ulfhedjinn said:
My Oblivion FPS shot up when I went from a single core Newcastle 3400+ @ 4000+ to an E6300 @ stock.

But thats probably because its a Core 2 Duo which more powerful regardless of being dual core. I'm pretty sure I've seen benchmarks somewhere that show dual core only adds a few fps in Oblivion.

snowdog · 4 Mar 2007 at 19:05

lay-z-boy said:
Keep your fake core's to yourself

Uses both core's on my desktop and laptop.

Doesnt matter if fake or not, if it keeps cpu usage at 50% it doenst use both threads...
Do you have any sources (or perhaps a pic of the single process using 100% of the cpu), for now ill put carbon on unknown...
When i google i come a lot of forums telling dualcore users to turn off 1 core for nfs most wanted and carbon...

modo77 · 4 Mar 2007 at 19:18

titaniumx3 said:
But thats probably because its a Core 2 Duo which more powerful regardless of being dual core. I'm pretty sure I've seen benchmarks somewhere that show dual core only adds a few fps in Oblivion.

the dual core does almost double the fps! In that game at least. I got the same mhz cpu with dual core and that was the only change.

snowdog · 5 Mar 2007 at 09:44

Any more games that do/ dont support dualcore? Come on i know there are

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lay-z-boy · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:30

Here we are, some shots of me racing a gt3 rs in downtown, with meh new g15 using the cpu load meter

snowdog · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:33

lay-z-boy said:
Here we are, some shots of me racing a gt3 rs in downtown, with meh new g15 using the cpu load meter

Ok, although it may be another app using rest of the cpu, ill place carbon for supported now, but personally i cant believe EA actually bothered with dualcore...

lay-z-boy · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:39

snowdog said:
Ok, although it may be another app using rest of the cpu, ill place carbon for supported now, but personally i cant believe EA actually bothered with dualcore...

I have checked a few times over and im 100% sure i dont have any background apps hogging any cpu time.

snowdog · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:55

lay-z-boy said:
I have checked a few times over and im 100% sure i dont have any background apps hogging any cpu time.

Seems Ea has actually got into dualcore, black&white 2 has it, and old games based on the quake 3 engine support it (due to being made to support hyperthreading at that time...), updated list...

Actually amazed how many games have the support...

ramdor · 5 Mar 2007 at 20:07

so the old argument 'dont bother with dual core, no games support it yet' .... is out the window?

Richie.

HighlandeR · 5 Mar 2007 at 20:28

You know I have yet to see one game that really makes use out of dual core cpus.....

And Quake4 is one excemption I know in 1280x1024 there was about a 30-40% jump in performance but any rez higher and it went back to 5-10fps extra.

Ive tried looking for Supreme Commander benchies with Single vs dual vs Quad.... and no ones bothered to do it !

Would be nice for some proof but I got a feeling we wont see any boost with dual cores even with Alan wake and Crysis......

lay-z-boy · 5 Mar 2007 at 20:38

ramdor said:
so the old argument 'dont bother with dual core, no games support it yet' .... is out the window?

Richie.

Seems like it

snowdog · 5 Mar 2007 at 20:41

HighlandeR said:
Would be nice for some proof but I got a feeling we wont see any boost with dual cores even with Alan wake and Crysis......

Crysis prolly wont need it, but crytek 2 engine is just made as advanced as it can be, in the future most pc's will be multicore, crytek are just making it futureproof.

As for alanwake, i doubt it'll work smoothly on a single core, as it was demo-ed by microsoft on a core 2 duo or quaddro @ 3.67 ghz wich prolly means it needs a lot of cpu power....

ShiWarrior · 5 Mar 2007 at 20:54

good thread snowdog, its worth seeing before we go purchase a dual-core CPU

so its much appriciated!

cheers

HighlandeR · 5 Mar 2007 at 20:55

snowdog said:
As for alanwake, i doubt it'll work smoothly on a single core, as it was demo-ed by microsoft on a core 2 duo or quaddro @ 3.67 ghz wich prolly means it need a lot of cpu power....

Makes me think even more so that it will run well on a dual core even

Am hearing Supreme commanders the most intensive cpu hogging beast out there, such a shame no ones done any sort of test to show if dual/quads are benifiting from it.

Dont get me wrong im all for quad and multicore gaming, but even after 2 years of Dual core cpus and nothing....

ShiWarrior · 5 Mar 2007 at 20:58

i am very suprised to see games like "alice" in that list, i have that game, as u say 2000 game, so 7 years old and supports dual core? that must be with a new patch? (and no u dont need a powerful processor anyway, im just curious)