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Old 01-05-2008, 01:54 PM
zabrakwith zabrakwith is offline
 
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Originally Posted by Xiox View Post
Are you serious? SC maxes your PC out? I'm running on a 64-bit ASUS with a GeForce 7600 GT and I run SC on full and my fps doesn't even take a hit. It's a Single-Core machine. I always find it funny when people have dual core machines and they're having so much trouble with games as simple as Supreme Commander lol..



Multiple cores were SUPPOSE to be made to handle seperate parts of operations done with your machine, but since no company other than microsoft takes that into effect it's just scrap-metal for the next 3-4 years. They're very overpriced and over hyped on the market. You could have a 2.4 quadcore, which is suppose to handle most operations at a nice rate, however you're not running with 4 2.4s with most programs, you're running with a single core. There's no real way to adjust this unless the operation is made specifically for it. Dual-Cores and Quad-Cores don't do anything for games atm. The only game I've seen that can handle dual core is Quake Wars. Quake Wars was made so that 1 core handles pure code, and the other handles the physical world, rendering models and effects.

So you can sit up on your 'throne' with multiple core machines, but it doesn't mean anything. The machine you're using will be obsolete in the next few years, and you spent over $400 on it.

I guess that's not what I expected to hear. I assumed that a dual core would run much faster than a single core. I thought that the cores would work together in the processes that it runs, thus making the machine faster. Oh well!

ps- Seaseme, I have a GeForce 6600GT, which seems to run SWG(and most games) just fine. I was just curious if I was getting the max capability out of my dual core machine.