New games and multithreaded support

[jecho]

Now that consoles are multithreaded shouldn't new games support multiple cores. Such as AC Unity. If the engine utilized hyper threading or 6/8 core CPUs wouldn't the game run much better. Now days I would say most people looking to run high-ultra have a 4 core at a minimum and possibly 6 and 8 core solutions.

[Enderman]

If the engine utilized hyper threading or 6/8 core CPUs wouldn't the game run much better.

The problem is not that it doesnt have enough cores.

The problem is that it is coded like shit.

[Sauron]

The problem is not that it doesnt have enough cores.

The problem is that it is coded like shit.

 

^this. Any game would benefit from using multiple cores when available, but ACU would probably still run like crap because it's one of the worst coded games of the last 5 years. The benefits of more cores would still not be huge as most of the workload is usually on the gpu anyway. As for running high-ultra, I run 4k on a quad core, and feel no need whatsoever to upgrade to a 6-core for gaming. 1080p high can be achieved easily on the dual-core g3258, and althoug it bottlenecks a bit, for the price it's pure gold.

[jecho]

^this. Any game would benefit from using multiple cores when available, but ACU would probably still run like crap because it's one of the worst coded games of the last 5 years. The benefits of more cores would still not be huge as most of the workload is usually on the gpu anyway. As for running high-ultra, I run 4k on a quad core, and feel no need whatsoever to upgrade to a 6-core for gaming. 1080p high can be achieved easily on the dual-core g3258, and althoug it bottlenecks a bit, for the price it's pure gold.

Right but it is about time that modern game engines scale to more cores. TW for example should be a game that uses 8 cores if they are available. I know that 4k is achievable with 4 cores but overall performance would be better for games if more cores were utilized.

[Sauron]

Right but it is about time that modern game engines scale to more cores. TW for example should be a game that uses 8 cores if they are available. I know that 4k is achievable with 4 cores but overall performance would be better for games if more cores were utilized.

 

Again, it would hardly make any difference. Most of the load is gpu side, only advanced physics effects take avantage of the cpu. Again, ti would be a good thing if games supported all cores available, but the performance would not change much. And sorry, but I have no idea what TW is.

[jecho]

Again, it would hardly make any difference. Most of the load is gpu side, only advanced physics effects take avantage of the cpu. Again, ti would be a good thing if games supported all cores available, but the performance would not change much. And sorry, but I have no idea what TW is.

Total War

[deathjester]

Now that consoles are multithreaded shouldn't new games support multiple cores. Such as AC Unity. If the engine utilized hyper threading or 6/8 core CPUs wouldn't the game run much better. Now days I would say most people looking to run high-ultra have a 4 core at a minimum and possibly 6 and 8 core solutions.

 

AC Unity has good threading. AC Unity also needs a low level API AND a good cpu to push the onscreen characters they wanted to push.The console lacks the CPU so it runs like crap, the PC version lacks the low level API so it runs like crap to. 

 

Far Cry 4 on the other hand? A colossal piece of crap as far as threading. There is simply no excuse for that game being as badly threaded as it is.

 

RTS/MMO's? It is supposedly a nightmare to multithread them on our current API. The only game I can think of that did it well is Planetside 2 and it took Sony most of a year to do it, and they probably only did it because that title was coming to PS4. Even with great threading and a low level API, they are still having a hell of a time to get it to run on the PS4.

 

TLDR. Our API sucks.