Does fortnite use hyper-threading.

[tehx]

Been searching for this and couldn't find it anywhere. 

 

1) Does fortnite use hyper-threading?

2) If not would I benefit from the 4 extra physical cores the 8700k has over the 7700k.

 

Im asking this because I am experiencing lag in highly packed areas, such a tilted. Think it might be CPU bottleneck unless game is poorly optimised. 

[Santo22]

What GPU are you using? The game IMO is optimized pretty well. Was able to play at 60fps on a Ryzen 5 2400g with a slight overclock on the onboard graphics. 

[tehx]

Just now, Santo22 said:

What GPU are you using? The game IMO is optimized pretty well. Was able to play at 60fps on a Ryzen 5 2400g with a slight overclock on the onboard graphics. 

GPU isn't a problem, 1080ti at 1080p.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Applications do not know what HyperThreading (or really, simultaneous multithreading) is. All it can do is create threads and have the OS schedule them. The developer can try to tweak what sort of work is done so that it effectively uses the CPU's resources but that's about it.

 

However, having more physical cores is better for the same number of threads simply because that means a thread has a higher chance of running due to resource availability.

 

EDIT: As an example, if a core has 5 execution units and the application's threads use up 3 on average, Hyperthreading won't really help because there's not enough available execution units to go around.

[tehx]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Applications do not know what HyperThreading (or really, simultaneous multithreading) is. All it can do is create threads and have the OS schedule them. The developer can try to tweak what sort of work is done so that it effectively uses the CPU's resources but that's about it.

 

However, having more physical cores is better for the same number of threads simply because that means a thread has a higher chance of running due to resource availability.

 

EDIT: As an example, if a core has 5 execution units and the application's threads use up 3 on average, Hyperthreading won't really help because there's not enough available execution units to go around.

So do you think that having only 4 physical cores is the cause of the frame drops?

[Santo22]

Easy to check CPU usage while in the game with task manager. On the Fortnite forum there is a also a Nvidia control panel settings guide that will help you optimize even more. There's  a few settings in the panel that can lead to a few more FPS. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

4 minutes ago, Assassinguy2623 said:

So do you think that having only 4 physical cores is the cause of the frame drops?

To answer that question accurately would require analysis of what the app is doing, which requires tools that, while I've used like once or twice, need at least a weekend to figure out how to extract any useful analysis from it.

 

Otherwise, no, there could be other things considering Fortnite's requirements are pretty tame.

[gepowr]

3 hours ago, Assassinguy2623 said:

Been searching for this and couldn't find it anywhere. 

 

1) Does fortnite use hyper-threading?

2) If not would I benefit from the 4 extra physical cores the 8700k has over the 7700k.

 

Im asking this because I am experiencing lag in highly packed areas, such a tilted. Think it might be CPU bottleneck unless game is poorly optimised. 

I'm guessing you have a 7700k? If so there should not be any fps drops in fortnite. Even my 4790k keeps this game at well over 110 fps all the time (max settings 1080p)

[tikker]

On 03/05/2018 at 6:22 PM, Assassinguy2623 said:

So do you think that having only 4 physical cores is the cause of the frame drops?

Wouldn't think so. I'm running a 7700k/1080 Ti as well and I'm experienceing no frame drops at all. Also the 8700k only has 2 more physical cores.

 

You say lag, so first are you using WiFi or ethernet and second maybe your internet is struggling in densly packed areas?