[Racermus]

Originally Posted by blutti As i said it does support multi core ...but it doesn't use multi core unless it has to. As i explained earlier. If there was a real multi core support in the game it would use all your cores equally. If you had 2 it would use 2. If you had 3 it would use 3 and so on. So it supports multi core cpus but doesn't realy have multi core support like most of the games of today. So this 2 core support is not realy true. If you had one core in single core cpu with as much power than 2 cores in a 2 core cpu they would run the game as well. And everyone who has 3-4+ cores in their cpu have enough power in 2 cores that the rest can take a break and aren't needed by aoc. With true multi core support you would see the load spread equally on all the cores available. if you had the load equal of 100% of one core and you had 4 cores you would see 25% use on all the 4 cores. If you had 3 cores you would see about 33,3% on all 3. And if your cpu is not bottlenecking the game performance you will not see it in the fps. At certain point you just have enough power and upping your cpu from that point gives you no more fps than you had when you had enough power on your cpu.

Sorry to say mate... But you are wrong

Try to give AoC access to only 1 core nomatter how fast that core is.. You will instantly experience sluggish performance.. i7@4Ghz here.

And no that is not how multi threaded application works.. you will never see equal load on cores... ffs

[blutti]

Originally Posted by Racermus Sorry to say mate... But you are wrong Try to give AoC access to only 1 core nomatter how fast that core is.. You will instantly experience sluggish performance.. i7@4Ghz here. And no that is not how multi threaded application works.. you will never see equal load on cores... ffs

Why do i feel you people are concentrating on different facts in this? Sure you win aoc has special kind of multi core support that support only 2 cores. You all happy now?

And that is the way it should work if it's done right. I have seen other games do it so it has been done right.

But anyway feel as you will on the subject everyone has at least that 2 cores nowdays and they are enough since the multi core support is done poorly on aoc.

And for those that think aoc doesn't work as it should on your cores... It is working as good as it will ever work. No need to fiddle with the set affinity setting anymore. It will not do any good. The old bug has been fixed like 2 years ago.

[Asharoth]

Originally Posted by blutti The old bug has been fixed like 2 years ago.

Incorrect. It was fixed for some processors, some of the older Q-Core Intels still need tweaking to get them to work properly. It shows that the afinity is set to all cores but it actually isn't. I think this is actually a hardware issue rather than a software issue.

On my backup machine i have an old Q6600 processor, if i just run the game as is it runs ok, about 30 to 40 FPS a few slow downs here and there nothing too bad, but if i reset afinity to 1 core then back again to all cores while its running the FPS shoots up to the high 50's and into the 60's and runs alot smoother.

[blutti]

Originally Posted by Asharoth Incorrect. It was fixed for some processors, some of the older Q-Core Intels still need tweaking to get them to work properly. It shows that the afinity is set to all cores but it actually isn't. I think this is actually a hardware issue rather than a software issue. On my backup machine i have an old Q6600 processor, if i just run the game as is it runs ok, about 30 to 40 FPS a few slow downs here and there nothing too bad, but if i reset afinity to 1 core then back again to all cores while its running the FPS shoots up to the high 50's and into the 60's and runs alot smoother.

I had one of those exact cpus before this i7 and i can say there hasn't been any change on how aoc uses the cores. Also i used to switch to one core and back to all cores but in reality it didn't give any boost in fps. I don't have Q6600 anymore so it migth be that they have broke it again for those cpus but i doubt this is the case since going from q6600 to i7 hasn't changed anything for me in the way game uses my cores or how it doesn't do anything no matter if i switched to one core and back to all cores. All it did at least when i used to do that was to make the load more even on all cores but it didn't give any more fps or anything so it was just a plasebo effect realy.

I kept asking for the proper multi core support for the first 3 years and i never got even one answer from funcom so if you guys wish to continue my work on that i truely support you. Other than that there is nothing to do about it. For me the game runs currently well so i just hope they don't mess it up in any coming patches as they have done many times. I don't have the illusion that they wouldn't F up the patches anymore but if they wouldn't F up the game performance i'm relatively satisfied.

[Asharoth]

Originally Posted by blutti Also i used to switch to one core and back to all cores but in reality it didn't give any boost in fps.

Does for me /shrug

[Unbeliever69]

Originally Posted by Asharoth ....is like comparing a ZX81 with a Sinclair Spectrum, made by the same people and using similar technology, but worlds apart.

hehe. I still miss my Spektrum!!
...with a whopping 48K memory. I even had the "disk" drive, with a capacity of 100K per disk.....

[Asharoth]

Originally Posted by Unbeliever69 hehe. I still miss my Spektrum!! ...with a whopping 48K memory. I even had the "disk" drive, with a capacity of 100K per disk.....

i had a zx81, but i skipped the spectrums and had amstrads instead, started on the cpc464 with the tape player then onto the cpc6128 with the 3inch disc drive