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News Ultra high-end graphics are "a terrible mistake"

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Tim S, 11 Mar 2008.

  1. steveo_mcg

    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    Yes of course crytek would say that, think.
     
  2. Fod

    Fod what is the cheesecake?

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    marketing talk. translation: we need four physical cores because of the amount of threads we spawn.
    any multithreaded game will benefit from an increased number of physical CPU cores: fact.
    Source has been updated since HL2. wake up.
     
  3. Lepermessiah

    Lepermessiah What's a Dremel?

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    Oh, get real. Alan Wake is another one, they said it had to be DESIGNED, which is common sense. Anyway, I see the same people ehre contineu to be ignorant and try and twist facts. Why would they lie, it has nothing to do with crysis.

    A game can't just distribute its assets automatically, it has to be designed to use all 4 cores properly.
     
  4. Bluephoenix

    Bluephoenix Spoon? What spoon?

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    what crytek said in their press releases is that a game needs to be properly designed to separate the calculations into threads in a way that is efficient not that it specifically had to be made for a specific # of cores
     
  5. Lepermessiah

    Lepermessiah What's a Dremel?

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    Newer games are supporting multicore processors, games such as Crysis are programmed in such a way that it may run an ai thread, a physics thread a gui thread ect. One for each core of your processor. Most current games that claim multithreaded support only actually support 2 threads so you will see no additional performance boost in the quad core over a dual core.

    The above is from an article i just read.
     
  6. Fod

    Fod what is the cheesecake?

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    it's not the game! it's the OS. the OS handles the distribution and scheduling of process threads! the game just tells the OS, "look, i have 12 threads, handle them for me, OK?", and away it goes. AS FAR AS THE GAME IS CONCERNED IT DOESN"T CARE HOW MANY CORES ARE RUNNING. IF IT SPAWNS A LOT OF THREADS IT WILL RUN FASTER. THAT IS IT.
     
  7. Lepermessiah

    Lepermessiah What's a Dremel?

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    a game has to be desinged to use all 4 cores for any performance benefit to be had. Fact.
     
  8. Lepermessiah

    Lepermessiah What's a Dremel?

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    Lepermessiah What's a Dremel?

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    READ, you idiot, it is the game, the OS WILL SEE THE 4 cores, but a game will see little no no impact in perfiormance unl;ess it is desined with 4 cores in mind. Research before posting and looking like an idiot.
     
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    you're using the inquirer as a source? what kind of fool.... wait, nevermind.......
     
  11. Fod

    Fod what is the cheesecake?

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    christ on a stick, inquirer? are you serious? and not only an inquirer article, one that is from 2 years ago?
    that's talking about going from single threaded, monolithic engines to multithreaded ones.
    once that is done, there is no difference.
     
  12. Lepermessiah

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    Lepermessiah What's a Dremel?

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    The inquirer, and Digg, want more? Crytek, anyone else? get real, a game has to be designed to take advantage of the extra cores, the same way Dual core did.
     
  14. steveo_mcg

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    Year and a half old article not much better...
     
  15. Lepermessiah

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    http://www.overclockers.com/tips01057/

    Read, sorry, but your wrong, and should research before looking like a fool.

    and only crysis was designed with 4 cores since that article, so 1 game WOW.

    No matter the age, that article PROVES a game nees to be designed with Quad cores in mind in order for any real performance benefit to be had.
     
  16. Bluephoenix

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    now a vague digg reference? give us something respectable, not something pulled up quickly in google.
     
  17. steveo_mcg

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    Tech moves so fast that might as well be written in sanskrit
     
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    Will the PS3 handle my 23" screen at native resolution?
    Didn't think so...
     
  19. Fod

    Fod what is the cheesecake?

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    **** it. leper, you're right. quad core makes no difference. i wasted my money. PC gaming is the best sort of gaming, and i am mistaken. I'm sorry.
     
  20. Lepermessiah

    Lepermessiah What's a Dremel?

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    The article proved my poit, games need to be designed to use all 4 cores. Where is your proof? U don't have any.
     
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