How many CPU cores do you have in your computer?

[daniel.santos]

I'm just curious, of the user community who reads this message boards, how many have a dual core processor or better?  I've found a few ways to possibly squeeze better performance out of GAE by doing multi-threaded interpolation and I thought I would check to see what you peeps are using out there.  There are many parts of graphics rendering that you don't really want to try to background render because you end up at the same bottleneck (talking to the GPU), but we do a lot of interpolation on the APU, so I'm looking into this.

PS: Yea, believe it or not, there are actually 3 core processors (I know AMD has some 3 core phenoms), I guess those are the ones where one of the cores failed QA tests, and they were just able to disable that core and sell it cheaper.

[wciow]

I have an intel core2duo. I find that Glest (and most games) don't tax my CPU. Its the GPU which controls the game speed by how fast it can render stuff.

[daniel.santos]

I have an intel core2duo. I find that Glest (and most games) don't tax my CPU. Its the GPU which controls the game speed by how fast it can render stuff.

A common myth!  But there are some bottle necks on the CPU that can be addressed on dual+ core systems.  Plus, I can force the CPU to do work on one core while the other core (or thread) is forcing the GPU to do work and save a lot of time that way as well.  In fact, now that I think of it, this should even help on single core systems because of I/O wait while transfering data to and from the GPU.... hmmm..

[@kukac@]

Hmm, I bought this computer in 2003. So the answer is simple, it's one  

[modman]

Does that mean that, depending on your computer, the game may play differently?  If so, how?  Is it just the AI that is effected maybe?

[daniel.santos]

Does that mean that, depending on your computer, the game may play differently?

Gameplay will be EXACTLY the same.  One should NEVER change gameplay based upon hardware!!!!

This will purely effect framerate.

[hailstone]

One should NEVER change gameplay based upon hardware!!!!

Unless it's from a PC to a console or handheld  

[daniel.santos]

lol! yea, yea! Get pick on me will ya!