Cpu

[antonymurray]

I know ED is a modern game but dose any one know if it will take advantage of multiple Cpu cores most people now days have multiple cores also will it be using some sort of phyisx from nvidia or will that be handled by cobra? any pointers to existing to existing convos about this will be great thanks

 

[Squicker]

I know ED is a modern game but dose any one know if it will take advantage of multiple Cpu cores most people now days have multiple cores also will it be using some sort of phyisx from nvidia or will that be handled by cobra? any pointers to existing to existing convos about this will be great thanks

FD have indeed stated it will use multicore. Can't recall anywhere to link you I am afraid.

 

[antonymurray]

Thanks mate iv got 6 here waiting to kick ass lol

 

[Patrick_68000]

FD have indeed stated it will use multicore. Can't recall anywhere to link you I am afraid.

In this case, the planetary landing and overflight of planets will not fail of power for the spectacular effects. And will also reduce the risk for the graphic card, of CPU limited

 

[Gimi]

I know ED is a modern game but dose any one know if it will take advantage of multiple Cpu cores most people now days have multiple cores also will it be using some sort of phyisx from nvidia or will that be handled by cobra? any pointers to existing to existing convos about this will be great thanks

Minimum requirement for Alpha is given as a quad core CPU but only at 2GHz. So number of cores is more important than CPU speed.
Anybody playing alpha notice that sound quality is almost never affected by lag or other problems. Sneaky feeling that sound is running on it's own core/thread.

 

[Beachlight7]

Hoping for Octa core tailoring.

 

[Pyros]

I know ED is a modern game but dose any one know if it will take advantage of multiple Cpu cores most people now days have multiple cores also will it be using some sort of phyisx from nvidia or will that be handled by cobra? any pointers to existing to existing convos about this will be great thanks

ED is strongly multithreaded, using "real cores" (does not profit from Hyperthread) - according to the devs.

PhysX is just another physics engine - like Havok or Bullet. As far as we know, Cobra engine uses its own physic engine.

 

[Ben Parry]

Hoping for Octa core tailoring.

I can't even begin to imagine why

 

[Flavio]

I can't even begin to imagine why

He's a Thargoid and everything must be in eights :0

 

[Slawkenbergius]

I know the game is being developed to take full advantage of my PC cores, but when the Mac port comes out, will it also take full advantage of Apple cores?

 

[Squicker]

I know the game is being developed to take full advantage of my PC cores, but when the Mac port comes out, will it also take full advantage of Apple cores?

Yes, because the Mac is simply another PC since Mac went Intel inside.

 

[Cmdr Eagleboy]

Minimal requirements can be seen here
http://elite.frontier.co.uk/about

From practical experience with alpha 4 core CPU is a must, and no less than 2.5Ghz for each core.

 

[Rog]

Yes, because the Mac is simply another PC since Mac went Intel inside.

Whoosh!

There's an Intel product line 'refresh' coming up, so hopefully we might see some *affordable* hexa-cores, or some other mainstream performance bump.

 

[Squicker]

Whoosh!

There's an Intel product line 'refresh' coming up, so hopefully we might see some *affordable* hexa-cores, or some other mainstream performance bump.

I best dust off the wallet and tell my wife to halve the shopping bill then

EDIT: God that sounded sexist, but I am actually banned from shopping on account of coming home with everything we don't need and nothing we do need.

 

[Theodrid]

I best dust off the wallet and tell my wife to halve the shopping bill then

EDIT: God that sounded sexist, but I am actually banned from shopping on account of coming home with everything we don't need and nothing we do need.

I do that on purpose to get out of shopping too mate - you can't fool me!

 

[Commander Dave]

Thanks mate iv got 6 here waiting to kick ass lol

Me too.
And as far as my CPU usage graph is concerned it's making use of them all.

 

[Cody]

I know the game is being developed to take full advantage of my PC cores, but when the Mac port comes out, will it also take full advantage of Apple cores?

<snickers>

 

[Squicker]

<snickers>

I see it now. Groan. That is what my wife and son call a 'dad joke'.

 

[Dr Wookie]

I have a quad core cpu and I've seen the alpha at least 6 of my 8 threads, maybe 8

 

[Squicker]

I have a quad core cpu and I've seen the alpha at least 6 of my 8 threads, maybe 8

Out of interest, how many threads does the game run? You can check this by running Task Manager (right click the Task Bar), selecting the details tab, adding the Threads column (right click the general column area in the details section and check the relevant box).

Sorry to be nosy, I don't really know why I care but I do for some reason.

Thanks