Dual core supported games list

i searched on the net for a while n then found this list in a forum

Age of Empires III

Battlefield 2

Battlefield 2: Special Forces

Black & White 2

Call of Duty 2

City of Villains by NCSoft

F.E.A.R. by Vivendi

Peter Jackson’s King Kong

Quake 4

Quake 5 (promised when released)

Serious Sam 2 by Croteam

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Movies

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3

Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland

Vangauard Saga of Heros

World of Warcraft

its not a big list considering the time the technology has been around for im getting worried coz i have a dual core system

future games

unreal tournament

crysis

please tell me tthat there r gonna be more games with dual core support and add to the list

i searched on the net for a while n then found this list in a forum

Age of Empires III

Battlefield 2

Battlefield 2: Special Forces

Black & White 2

Call of Duty 2

City of Villains by NCSoft

F.E.A.R. by Vivendi

Peter Jackson’s King Kong

Quake 4

Quake 5 (promised when released)

Serious Sam 2 by Croteam

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Movies

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3

Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland

Vangauard Saga of Heros

World of Warcraft

its not a big list considering the time the technology has been around for im getting worried coz i have a dual core system

future games

unreal tournament

crysis

please tell me tthat there r gonna be more games with dual core support and add to the list

hiddo95

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i searched on the net for a while n then found this list in a forum

Age of Empires III

Battlefield 2

Battlefield 2: Special Forces

Black & White 2

Call of Duty 2

City of Villains by NCSoft

F.E.A.R. by Vivendi

Peter Jackson’s King Kong

Quake 4

Quake 5 (promised when released)

Serious Sam 2 by Croteam

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

The Movies

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3

Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland

Vangauard Saga of Heros

World of Warcraft

its not a big list considering the time the technology has been around for im getting worried coz i have a dual core system

future games

unreal tournament

crysis

please tell me tthat there r gonna be more games with dual core support and add to the list

dabbott

Half of the games on that list don't have dual core support. I suspect this is a list from the time the AMD X2 CPU's were just released and marketing tried to convince all major games would have dual core support.Gog

Absolutely!  There are only 3 games out now with true dual core support that I know of.  They are -

Quake 4 (with the downloadable patch)

COD2 (with the downloadable patch)

Oblivion (only when playing at 800x600 because at higher reses all CPU advantages are lost because at that point all video cards currently on the market become a bottleneck.)

Battlefield 2

hiddo95

I have a question...

If a game doesn't support dual core it doesn't mean it won't run on it right? I don't have a dual core yet, but I'll for sure upgrade sooner or later and I want to know if the older games will still at least work. Is it worth the trade off if older cpus perform better? I play as many older games as newer ones (more so in fact).

While we're on the topic...how about quad-core? Will quad-core be able to run my classic doom and quake?
-mr-punchout-

I have a question...

If a game doesn't support dual core it doesn't mean it won't run on it right?  I don't have a dual core yet, but I'll for sure upgrade sooner or later and I want to know if the older games will still at least work.  Is it worth the trade off if older cpus perform better?  I play as many older games as newer ones (more so in fact).

While we're on the topic...how about quad-core?  Will quad-core be able to run my classic doom and quake?
-mr-punchout-

They run fine on duals it just means they do not run any faster on the duals than they do on the single core CPUs with the same clock speed.

Some games give problems on dual core CPU's but that can be solved by disabling one of the cores.Gog

Even if a game doesn't use both cores you will see benefit running it on a dual-core system as it will essentially have one core to itself while the rest of the system processes run on the other core. Furthermore, considering that both the 360 and PS3 are multi-cored systems you will see greater support for dual-core enabled software. BigD

This is not true in reality at all as MANY single core games actually run a little slower on the dual cores as compared to the singles of the same clock speed.  I proved this also by running Super PI benchmark and HL2 at the same time on a single core.  We had a thread about all this in PC Hardware.  I was still beating or the same as the 4600+.

There is VERY little that sees a benefit from dual yet.  Encoding video files and the 2 games mention are about the only thing that sees a benefit from dual right now.  This will change of course but by the time it does, CPUs like the 5000+ will cost like $99!

You guys are making me cry here.

Ordered a 5000+ dual machine from Dell recently. So I actually made a huge mistake.

You guys are making me cry here.

Ordered a 5000+ dual machine from Dell recently. So I actually made a huge mistake.

jobs

No thats not a mistake at all. It will still be very fast for single core apps because it's a 2.6GHz clock speed.  And by the time more apps come out that can take advantage of dual the 5000+ will still be a good mid-range CPU.  The only mistake you might have made would have been not choosing Core 2 Duo over the 5000+ but the 5000+ will still be a very good CPU for the next year and a half.

Getting a 3800+, 4200+, or 4400+ X2 would have been a huge mistake as they all are only 2.2GHZ or less.  They are slow now for single core apps and will be slow later by the time more dual core apps and Vista come out. 

(Funny because I'm typing this from a Vista RC2 install and it seems very fast on my 2.54GHz single)

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You guys are making me cry here.

Ordered a 5000+ dual machine from Dell recently. So I actually made a huge mistake.

basersx

No thats not a mistake at all. It will still be very fast for single core apps because it's a 2.6GHz clock speed.  And by the time more apps come out that can take advantage of dual the 5000+ will still be a good mid-range CPU.  The only mistake you might have made would have been not choosing Core 2 Duo over the 5000+ but the 5000+ will still be a very good CPU for the next year and a half.

Getting a 3800+, 4200+, or 4400+ X2 would have been a huge mistake as they all are only 2.2GHZ or less.  They are slow now for single core apps and will be slow later by the time more dual core apps come out. 

Ah, that is good to hear. At least I bought it with 2gb of RAM and a 7800GT 256MB card. :)

multiple cores will definitely stay around for awhile.dougyfresh038

Well of course but that is not the issue.  The two questions you have to ask about dual core are these-

1. What apps out now can actually see an improvement over the single core of the same speed?

and...

2. How good/useful will the dual core CPUs on the market now, early, be when apps that really can utilize duals finally become commonplace?

You really want to avoid buying technology early if possible.  You pay a lot for something you can’t yet use and by the time you can use it it’s already obsolete.  Or at least already low-end.

Edit: And along with that extra cost came a compromise in clock speed.  The 3800+ single is under $100!  That means unless you spent less than $100 or have 2.4GHz or more (4600+ or better) on your dual you compromised dual for clock speed!  And dual is something you can barley utilize right now and still wont be able to for another 6 months to a year.

it depends alot on the game as to wether it runs fine or not. i play eve and thats a good example of a dual core not being worth a damn. in fact if i run both cores my CPU usage hovers around 50-70% if i shut down 1 core it drops to 6 or 7 %. its a massive change. also in game the frame rates go from say 15 FPS up too 90+.

i havent yet seen a benifit to having a dual core and im not talking about numbers that dont mean anything other than to geeks. like getting 50+ FPS when your eye cant see anything over 35 FPS anyhow, but i mean real visable results, a noticable improvment in game play. no notice of benifits but there are some drawbacks.

Does this mean that a non-dual core support game would be faster running a single core 3.8 ghz rather than top of line x6800 (3 ghz)? that's ridiculousshoenberg3

This threads kinda silly, what you want to talk about is what uses multiple cores. Almmost anything will run on Multi Core/CPU systems, you just need to define if it uses multicore. I mean hell, things as old as Quake 3 works with multicore.teebeenz

"Works with" and "take advantage of" are two different things. This is about games that specifically support dual core CPU's, not just run on them.