Hyperthreading - Finally an answer

#1 03-23-2011, 04:51 PM

Holy moly, I don't know how many people asked on the forums and how often I tried it at Youtube, but I finally got an answer.

@OlegMaddox:
"Could you please answer whether this game takes advantage by a hyperthreading CPU? This can save us about 100 buccs."

"Yes, but not so much." (Quote Youtube)

Fritz X · #2 03-23-2011, 04:54 PM

"Yes, but not so much."

Meh, still pretty vague of an answer. But better then nothing, I appreciate it

Feuerfalke · #3 03-23-2011, 04:55 PM

I'd be rather interested if it benefits from multithreading.

I don't know any game that would profit from Hyperthreading. AFAIK only professional software does.

But lately Oleg posted that only part of the sound-engine is multithreaded. So we will have to see how well it performs with DX10s use of multiple cores.

Osprey · #4 03-23-2011, 04:59 PM

Can you even buy a single core these days?

#5 03-23-2011, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Osprey

Can you even buy a single core these days?

Perhaps, but what does that have to do with this topic?

Feuerfalke · #6 03-23-2011, 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hecke

Perhaps, but what does that have to do with this topic?

I wondered about the same thing

Meusli · #7 03-23-2011, 05:20 PM

He is probably saying that it should be Multithreading enabled as you can no longer buy single core cpus.

Feuerfalke · #8 03-23-2011, 05:46 PM

You mean hyperthreading enabled.

We can't enable multithreading. Unless you already hacked the code, that is.

TheEditor · #9 03-23-2011, 05:54 PM

On Topic....

The question is if hyperthreading's "yes but not so much" worth $100?
I'm guessing that your looking between the 2500k and the 2600k right?

Feuerfalke · #10 03-23-2011, 05:54 PM

I'll tell you in 10 days.

Doesn't make any sense to buy a new machine before the first tests.