Does Crysis Warhead use 4 cores?

No games uses or will use 4 cores for a long time.amekhov

No games uses or will use 4 cores for a long time.amekhov

Some games already do.

[QUOTE="amekhov"]No games uses or will use 4 cores for a long time.Makari

And UT3.

Really? UT3 does? I have the demo and I don't think I run it that well. It's fine (settings on 3/5 on 1440x900, fps about 40-50 most the time). But it will use 2 of my 4 cores right?bedram793

It will utilize all four.

The E8500 would be on top out of these processors in every game out there that doesn't utilize four cores, but UT3 does. You're not able to play on higher settings than you do because of your video card.

Well, I was talking about Warhead. Should have stated that better. Will Warhead use 2 of my 4 cores? And yeah, I know my graphics card isn't the best.

Also, this is just out of curiousity, would the E8500 beat 4 cores in UT3? As in, is it more powerful than a quad core (either one). So, would an E8500 perform better in a game that utilizes 4 cores against a 4 core processor?

Also, how come the difference is so little against the 2.66 GHz 4 core processor and the one I have (the Q6600)?

Because it's a phenom quad core ;) and the performance is so low on quad core processors since the games don't use them well, even those that "utilize" all 4 cores.

The only one that actually uses quad cores efficiently is Supreme Commander and there is also a limit to how fast the processor can send information. In applications that rely heavily on multicore processors, what is important is the information that gets processed and that is sent, it's more about quantity, that's why in application quad cores can double the performance of a dual core, but in games you don't need massive amount of processing power, only speed, and quad cores sacrifice some of that speed for more power, that's why in games that don't rely much on the processor, a dual core can get more frames, and in games that use a quad core even if it uses them efficiently or not the fps gain won't be that high.

Well in the intro it says plays best with two cores, which definetly means it was only made to support 2 cores so unfortunately 4 cores will be a waste on warhead. Sorry :(-Origin-

The intro is just an advertisement of intels core 2 duo it doesnt mean that it dont support 4 cores (nvidia also appears in the intro and that doesn't make the gtx260 faster than the 4870) but yea crysis warhead doesnt scale in 4 cores

I'm not quite sure how the cpu uses it's cores, but if warhead uses 2 cores, wouldn't the cpu use the 3rd or 4th core to take care of windows or any background programs, thus giving warhead better performance?

Like I said I'm not that knowlegable about it just curious.

I'm not quite sure how the cpu uses it's cores, but if warhead uses 2 cores, wouldn't the cpu use the 3rd or 4th core to take care of windows or any background programs, thus giving warhead better performance?

Like I said I'm not that knowlegable about it just curious.

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Well while you are playing if you are doing background tasks with your pc like video encoding or creating mp3's ( heavy cpu dependent tasks ) you are much better off with a 4 core processor but with the usual tasks a pc does while running a game ( messenger antivirus programs open windows ) the difference between 4 and 2 cores are really negligable though it is there ( speaking for the same processor architecture and same speed ). But there are a couple of games that use 4 cores ( though still dont take full advantage of them ) that are noticable faster on 4 cores processors ( still dont think because they have twice the cores are 2 times faster since games are primarly dependent on graphics card speed )

Well, I was talking about Warhead. Should have stated that better. Will Warhead use 2 of my 4 cores?

bedram793

I believe it is threaded for two cores, yes.

Also, this is just out of curiousity, would the E8500 beat 4 cores in UT3? As in, is it more powerful than a quad core (either one). So, would an E8500 perform better in a game that utilizes 4 cores against a 4 core processor?

bedram793

Depends on the quad-core in question, but no, compared to a quad-core at the same price point, the E8500 would not outperform it in UT3. But that's just UT3; it wouldn't be the case in most other games today.

Also, how come the difference is so little against the 2.66 GHz 4 core processor and the one I have (the Q6600)?

bedram793

Not sure. Perhaps UT3 just likes the Kentsfield architecture more than Yorkfield, getting more performance clock for clock, as you'll see the Q9450 leading the Q6600 by more than that in most other games (even the Q9300 beats it sometimes, though in some cases it's a little weaker seemingly solely due to lower L2 cache, which isn't the case here).

I doubt it is, since it was released before quad-core CPUs became mainstream.

I doubt it is, since it was released before quad-core CPUs became mainstream.