So what's that special thing I gotta do...

[Bokishi]

to make kotor run on a dual core?

[metadigital]

I dunno, but Gabe and his band of Valvers are almost finished re-building Source to use a hybrid multithreading (a mix of both coarse threadings

[Wistrik]

From what I've read, you stand to get maybe 25% or so better performance with today's software, which usually isn't written with multi-threading code. You do get better performance while running several applications, each being a separate thread, but until software is written to support multi-threading within an application, you won't get much for your money. When multiple threads are present, the operating system can assign them to different processors in a multi-processor environment, thus improving overall performance.

 

It isn't too hard to implement. Music can run in a thread, the sound effects mixer can run in a thread, server and client code can be separate threads, networking can be a thread, input device handling can be a thread, file system management can be a thread, and so on. It requires more advanced programming, and probably compilers, but it'll become standard now that multi-processor systems are becoming more and more popular. Any developer who doesn't code for multi-threading will be yesterday's news.

 

Valve is setting a good example that other game developers would be wise to follow. The Source engine is already well-written and nicely optimized, yet the creators are going the extra mile to support modern hardware. If all goes well in 2007, I'll be playing HL2:Episode 2 on a quad-core AMD system.

[kirottu]

Ermm.

 

to make kotor run on a dual core?

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You have to shut down your other core. I have no idea how this is done, btw.

[metadigital]

Right-click on the executable.

[Bokishi]

Man, Kotor runs lightning fast and on both cores flawlessly, I didn't have to do anything like other dual-core users said. Why is that?

[kirottu]

Because all those others were dirty bio fanbois and not obzidian fanbois.

Edited January 13, 2007 by kirottu

[Bokishi]

Yea I mean the BioKids have loads of problems with dual cores, which is weird.

[metadigital]

There's a moral here ...