Quad Core Gaming

[geesolo]

I know that There is a handful of games that support it, but I was wondering if in this thread people could list games that were quad core compatible and also talk/list any workarounds or patches etc that would enable quad core support for games.

[death]

only one i no are crysis and the last flight sim that microsoft most new games are duel core ready but not to meny are quad as yet

[geesolo]

These games use 4 cores
(I will try to keep this list as updated as possible, also don't forget if you have any tweaks/patches or workarounds to get game to use mre that 1 core please post here)

Supreme Commander and expansion
Crysis
Hellgate London
Alan Wake (which looks amazing on a quad core, this game is mainly cpu dependent not gpu)
Unreal Tournament 3 (Unreal 3 engine is capable of using 4 cores)

[Combatus]

The new Unreal engine makes use of Quads so UT3 does benefit from two or more cores. A second core is assigned to rendering while third and fourth cores if you have them are used for physics and data compression calculations.

[X-Kenshin-X]

so on average, how much of a % advantage are we getting for having a quad core in our comps?

[MOFO-64]

As far as "3D MARK" increases go, you'll only benefit in the cpu tests with a quad-core.......your SM 2.0 and 3.0 scores will not increase.

You can easily do other things whilst gaming as a result of having a quad (encoding movies, folding, etc etc) which would normally be impossible on a dual-core setup due to having two less cores. People seem to view a quad in the sense that it somehow enables your gpu to churn out more FPS (or atleast it should), and when it doesn't they yell "Quad-core is overkill, no games will use it." Which would be relevant if only pc's ran a single app and that app were a game. Windows is multi-threaded and if you have 7 applications open on your pc then windows will multi-thread them all, by which I mean while each application itself may not be multi-threaded, windows will send threads from each seperate application to different cores thus spreading the workload and enabling greater performance/smoother execution of those applications/games compared to a dual-core setup.

Basically if all you do is play games, or if when you play games you NEVER run any apps in the background then you'll be fine with a dual-core. If like me you fold for rosetta, encode movies quite a bit etc etc.......and wish to run these applications whilst gaming and maintain the same gaming performance as you would on a dual-core setup then a quad is for you

[geesolo]

MOFO-64 I agree with what you sya to a certain degree, but...The is and will be games that run on quad core. For example Alan Wake uses all 4 cores. Each are assigned a job for the actual game, 1 of which will be physics. I think If you are a hardcore gamer like myself quadcore is the way to go, only if more games companies start this method of programming. But at the moment it doesn't justify buying in general.

[gandlers]

is alan wake actually out???

it's been in the pipeline for years, I thought it was vapourware.

Death is right, Microsoft Flight Sim 10 (FSX) supports multicore cpus as of SP1 (or was it SP2). The soon to be released Far-Cry 2 will also support multicores.

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[GSte]

Alan Wake comes out in 2 weeks.

[Clunk]