New patch: is the Processaffinity mask the reason for mixed results??

[Anders_And]

The new patch is to use all four cores or rather more cores than now. Has anyone been able to confirm this? My four cores seem to be at the same load as before...

Now, I seem to remember a long time ago that Luthier said we could experiment with the Processaffinity mask setting in the conf.ini (tells the game which cores to use for game play) and maybe this is the reason for these mixed results across these boards??? This change in the conf.ini was made before this patch obviously and for those who did change the Processaffinity mask settings (me included) this new patch will seem to give less FPS maybe??!.. Can this be the reason for the mixed results on the boards here?

Some people here are claiming alot higher FPS and others, me included have alot less FPS

I remember that I changed something in the conf.ini for the Processaffinity mask. Maybe I should revert back to the original setting in there but I just cannot remember what the original number was?!? Anyone??

So for people with FPS increase what is your ProcessAffinity mask setting in the conf.ini??

[Buchon]

The reason behind the differences in performance reports are under my opinion :

- Dual cores / Quad cores.

- 1 GB card / above of 1 GB.

Because the key of the patch is the multicore optimization (CPU) in the graphic engine and the new texture management (GPU memory).

But yes, is recommended remove the affinity configuration, it is not used by default in the game.

[janpitor]

Hi, i am not at my pc, so I didn´t try yet, but id would be a good idea to remove afinity mask from conf.iny and then try the patch.

[FG28_Kodiak]

I have a big fps boost. AMD Phenom II X4 3.2GHz. Ati 5770.
;ProcessAffinityMask=15
is out commented. So default.

[simast]

Originally Posted by FG28_Kodiak

I have a big fps boost. AMD Phenom II X4 3.2GHz. Ati 5770.

Interesting. I am also on Phenom II X4 (3.4 GHz) and with a different NVIDIA card (no ProcessAffinityMask in config) - and I have no FPS boost whatsoever. So clearly, FPS issues are graphics card related.

[janpitor]

Originally Posted by simast

Interesting. I am also on Phenom II X4 (3.4 GHz) and with a different NVIDIA card (no ProcessAffinityMask in config) - and I have no FPS boost whatsoever. So clearly, FPS issues are graphics card related.

It could mean you are already limited by graphics settings. I have to check when I come back. Because previously I could reduce the settings to minimum and FPS would´t be better. I hope this is improved and I will see an FPS difference between graphics settings.

[addman]

I asked Luthier directly about multicore support in the new graphics engine. He said 4 cores or more CPU's should see considerable improvement in FPS, dual cores will also see improvements just not as big as if you have 4+ cores. There is nothing in the patch notes about altering the conf.ini ProcessAffinity line and why should there be? It's a modern game engine, it's supposed to automatically detect how many cores are available and use them, I don't think ProcessAffinity does anything ATM.

[Ataros]

AA which seems to work now may be a reason for mixed results also.

[simast]

Originally Posted by janpitor

It could mean you are already limited by graphics settings. I have to check when I come back. Because previously I could reduce the settings to minimum and FPS would´t be better. I hope this is improved and I will see an FPS difference between graphics settings.

The thing is that Radeon 5770 is supposed to be worse than GeForce GTX 460.
See: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

[Ailantd]

I have a quad core and I have not experienced any improvement.