Hex core games ?

gothic_hobbit · 25 Apr 2011 at 16:20

Do they exist ?

Scon · 25 Apr 2011 at 16:21

Civ 5 sure gets close to it, and possibly ArmA 2 aswell.

arknor · 25 Apr 2011 at 16:22

some games use 6 cores but they dont fully use any of the cores so i'd imagine on 4 cores they run just as well

iamTakeo · 25 Apr 2011 at 16:42

Maybe there's a tech demo somewhere but I doubt its much improvement from a good quad.

RedStarRiot · 25 Apr 2011 at 16:59

man most games are not even taking full advantage of quad core.

Hairybudda · 25 Apr 2011 at 20:44

If a game is multithreaded properly it'll be able to use how ever many cores you have, that doesn't mean tasks will be scheduled evenly by your os, especially considering not all commonly used algorithms in games lend themselves to threading.

FrenchTart · 25 Apr 2011 at 20:47

Wasn't there something about GTA4 benefiting from hex due to the engine being optimised to run with a 6-thread-supporting CPU (xbox360 cpu)?

Loosecannon · 25 Apr 2011 at 21:51

Historyline
Battle Isle
Civ 5 is sort of...

Oh you didn't mean Hex turn-based games?

Try writing more than 6 words in a post!

jms198 · 25 Apr 2011 at 22:01

pcgameshardware did an article a while ago.

Klo · 25 Apr 2011 at 23:32

jms198 said:
pcgameshardware did an article a while ago.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,...already-benefit-from-six-cores-CPUs/Practice/

FrenchTart · 26 Apr 2011 at 00:22

Loosecannon said:
Historyline
Battle Isle
Civ 5 is sort of...

Oh you didn't mean Hex turn-based games?

Try writing more than 6 words in a post!

I think the word "core" was enough to preclude those suggestions.

HangTime · 26 Apr 2011 at 20:30

Bit dubious of that up to 40% improvement over quadcore claim for Civ5, I mean even if the threading was working 100% efficiently you'd still only see a ~33% improvement...
Just seems a bit of a lazy article, no testing methodology mentioned, just some random screenshots with a supposed gain written underneath it.