I take it modders cant mod games to run to 4 cores etc ?

jamieuk23 · 19 Jul 2007 at 13:01

I guess as I have not come across any info or downloads on the web for making oldish games run on 2 cores + is because its just not possible ??

what is the limiting factor here ?? down to the the way games are programmed ?

It seems quite simple to me that when one core is getting maxed it should auto work with the other cores could this be implemented in to vista or something ? - Nothing is that simple thou

Must be some way of the CPU just doing it job no matter what

jamieuk23 · 19 Jul 2007 at 13:08

but lets say I want to use about 5 programes at one time like video editing downloading and burning a DVD with nero my CPU will Auto start using as many cores as my CPU has with out any type of programe code, as I am sure the CPU has its own code for workign with these programes or is it vista that decides

So in short words the game developers make sure that there game only runs with one core only and there is no programe that could be made or downloaded which could edit the way the CPU works with these games ?

quite confusing as it just seems like such a simple thing and find it hard to believe that some one hasn't come out with something to fix this :confused:

When you don't no much everything seems so simple

jamieuk23 · 19 Jul 2007 at 13:15

Duff-Man said:
No. It's all down to the source-code level.

If you ever do any programming (C, fortran, Pascal etc) you will understand.

It's kind of like saying "if I put another engine in my car boot, can't I just tell the car to use it as well?". Well, no - the car would need to be designed from the ground up specifically to use the two engines.

that little car story has made it a little more clear

jamieuk23 · 19 Jul 2007 at 14:19

Keep these car stories comming they are great !