Dual Core not good for GAMES?

Angel.of.Death

Angel.of.Death

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OK guys, one question.

Dual Core on a single die sounds good and all, but there are some places on the internet that say that Dual Core CPU'S degrade performance in GAMES.

Is this true?

PS. When do multi-threaded games come out?
 
Games have been multithreaded for a very long time now. As for dual-core problems with gaming, they are generally just clock-synch issues that the developers didnt have to worry about beforehand and became an issue as people moved to hardware SMT. For X2 procs, AMD released a tool to help mitigate those issues.

Theres a much more indepth look here
 
hmm... cant check the link over here... but i'll have a look at it at home too.. i mean, if games would run better with that program installed,.. that would be just great :)
 
Well they arent "programs" so much as they are drivers and kernel level hacks really. The AMD Optimization thing is just a hack attempt at synchronizing things up a bit .... personally I just imagecfg anything that doesnt behave hehe
 
Praetor said:
Well they arent "programs" so much as they are drivers and kernel level hacks really. The AMD Optimization thing is just a hack attempt at synchronizing things up a bit ....
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so, its edits the Windows Kernel a bit to get the cores synchronized up a bit better?

Praetor said:
personally I just imagecfg anything that doesnt behave hehe
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Nice!.. I have no idea what that means. :P
 
Thanks guys for all your replies... Computer Forum Rocks!

So the bottom line is that since games are multithreaded, there will be no performance issue... Right?

PS Is there such a tool for the Intel E6600?

Thanks again for all your replies in such a short time!
 
There still are some glitches with games, but not as many as there were say, a year ago.

There are some games out there that are multithreaded, however the majority are still single threaded. Even today, the majority of the games that are multithreaded, aren't showing a huge increase, since there is still one main process which does most of the work.
 
Archangel said:
hmm... cant check the link over here... but i'll have a look at it at home too.. i mean, if games would run better with that program installed,.. that would be just great :)
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I have installed it on all the X2 I have built and it seems to work fine!
 
Slowing games

If dual core is giving problems with the games that might explain why me computer has been so slow lateley

Thanks
 
JanBoer said:
If dual core is giving problems with the games that might explain why me computer has been so slow lateley

Thanks
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If its slow in games, it's because of your integrated video, not your CPU. And if you mean slow at other times, then its because of another reason, because dual-cores make multi-tasking and general use quicker.
 
well, more cores vs more clockspeed was the issue... but dual core is being made standard and therefore games will be multithreaded, and this will make dual core better for the money.

if you play a game that only utilizes a single one of the cores, sure a single core at 2.4ghz would perform way better than a dual core (of the same model of course) at 1.8ghz... but most games use both cores now so the 1.8ghz would perform better in newer games.
 
question

is it true that a dual core pentium d 3.0ghz acts as a 6.ghz

and is it true that my 1.86ghz core 2 duo is gonna be very fast faster then a regular dual core pentium
 
bigl2007 said:
is it true that a dual core pentium d 3.0ghz acts as a 6.ghz

and is it true that my 1.86ghz core 2 duo is gonna be very fast, faster then a regular dual core pentium
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1. Nope, not true.
2. If you mean old petium dual core as in core duo, then yes, it will be quite a lot faster.
 
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