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ok so i just want to know why crysis is only using one thread of one core on my i7 Q720 1.6 GHz?

anybody have any ideas?

Thanks

Message edited by BajanSurfer on 10-28-2009 at 07:15:16 AM

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Because Crysis at most can only utilize 2 cores. It uses one for the game and one for sound hence why one of your cores tends to spike a bit.

Also CryEngine 2 is horribly optimized and not very multicore friendly hence why a dual core at a equivalent speed of a quad core will get the same FPS.

If you want to see a game using all of your cores, try Left 4 dead. I saw it use 80% on my Q6600 on all 4. Probably less on yours since it has 8 threads though.

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but even so... shouldnt it be using at LEAST 2 threads which would be one core? :S

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You can actually edit some code in the settings-options files that allows you to use multicore for some games.

Did you download the latest patch?

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