Multi Threaded Applications/Games. Ok - now that there are numerous dual core processors out on the market (AMD X2, Core2Duo, PentiumD) and the quad cores are being released; I started thinking what - if any applications or games exist - or are slated for...

threads. I'll agree that creating a good game engine is hard but multi threading is up to the programmer. Not sure what the second part is about but dual cpu mother boards were around back in the 90's and no multi threaded games came out. O cool your...

multi core processors. Whether 32 or 64 bit doesn't matter. (2) In order to utilize multiple cores, the Application has to be written to do that. Installing a single threaded game on a multi core computer will result in only 1 core being used by the game....

The trend is what the Steam tells us, and to ignore it if youre a gamer, a dev or a gfx company is foolish, and that trend tells us its 2+% a month. So, when were talking about games, devs and usage, this whole thread is about games and their players, what...

be using this PC for web browsing, e-mail, word processing, watching movies and playing games such as Counter-Strike and Warcraft III:FrozenThrone - DOTA (these 2 are the games I play most often), as well as a few others. Won't be getting too many new games...

most resources). The challenge is to make enough threads that make sensen and do not have to wait on each other to finish all the time. Then the OS can balance them over different CPU's. Btw, a heavily multi threaded game will probably run worse on a single...

games are "harder". On a small level for apps that lend themselves to threading, it is relatively easy. I am not trying to say "you are wrong", just saying that games are a strange duck for multithreading. Like you, I have created threaded apps (both on...

that while the game is running, it's ONLY going to run on one core of the 805 effectively only using the two core chip like a single 2.66ghz chip. based on that. the AMD is the winner for gaming performance HOWEVER, should multi threaded applications...

more expensive or would i need a mobo thats cf compatible? i read core 2 duo is better for single threaded and phenom better for multi threaded? but are they releasing games that are multithread that would make me get phenom over the cheaper intel? i heard...

stubborn idiot which you likely are who refuses to change to an obviouse better utility. I get slightly better frames and smoother gameplay in all my games when using ATI TRAY TOOLS instead of CCC (and yes my driver settings were the same when testing...