Is Counter-Strike 1.6 Multithreaded?

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Hi all

Did a google but could not find any definitive evidence so hopefully you guys can help me out, does CS 1.6 make use of two cores?

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Essentially no its not - but depending on your OS, drivers and so on certain things like the graphic card rendering backend may be split over different threads so you would see some gains over single core.
 
man a modern demanding game like that should be tbh. I mean 1000fps is a minimum for that game!
 
Thanks for the comments guys, my old P4 805 just isnt powerful enough using a single core then, gonna opt for a E5200 or E5300.

Didnt the revisions just change to E0 on these cpus? Whats the difference between M0 does anybody know, apparently all E5300 are E0 Intel did not make an M0, this true and should I go for the E5300? Only £2 more on OCUK
 
Xplo said:
Thanks for the comments guys, my old P4 805 just isnt powerful enough using a single core then, gonna opt for a E5200 or E5300.
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Wait, for CS 1.6? As in the one that originally came out around 10 years ago? For the original half life?

I used to play that on a P2 350MHz! You've got to have something mixed up here, CS 1.6 should run flawlessly on a P4 805 with even onboard gfx.
 
cs should be fine on a p4, as terrible as the chip is. Look for other performance-robbing culprits...
 
Nope wont run 100fps constant, in smoke its awful. Many years ago my XP2600 and MX440 run it constant 100fps no problems, now my 9700pro and 805 3.2ghz struggles, im sure steam have added patches that rob performance, pc is running well atm just bought a new hard drive and I always close down unwanted programs and run gamebooster before playing.

Above post I meant M0 and recent R0 revisions, not E0 lol
 
100fps constant? You're pretty demanding... surely 60 is plenty for any game?

I actually find that 1.6 runs SLOWER than source for the same settings on my rig (below) and laptop (CSS is just about possible to play, 1.6 isn't). All on a 100mbps uni line, so it's almost certainly the client.

It's definately not multi-threaded itself, and it is quite CPU bound - so a CPU upgrade is definately a good bet.
 
CS is the only game I find I have to play at 100fps with as its fairly fast paced, I know you only see 30fps etc but anything less than 60 just feels laggy! Im gonna get an E5** I think
 
Xplo said:
CS is the only game I find I have to play at 100fps with as its fairly fast paced, I know you only see 30fps etc but anything less than 60 just feels laggy! Im gonna get an E5** I think
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I think you're just having a kneejerk reaction here and missing something really, really big. If a 9700pro / P4 can't run CS 1.6 as well as your old MX440 / Athlon, even with all the steam additions (which really don't account for much CPU usage at all) then there's definitely an underlying problem on your system that won't be fixed by just replacing the CPU to a new one.

That said, your P4 is woefully out of date so upgrading to a new CPU wouldn't be a bad thing.
 
yeah my old P4-mobile 3.06ghz and geforce 5200 laptop destroyed that game.....so if you are having problems then... hmmz i dunno
 
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