Call of Duty 2 + Dual Core/HT Patch

Hey Guys:

I have CoD 2 for my desktop - Pentium 4 3.2GHz Northwood (800MHz FSB, 512k), 2GB Corsair XMS, 256MB ATI 9800XT, SB Audigy 2 - and it used to run very slowly, mainly due to my video card. I was limited to 800x600 (or 1024x768 if I turned off some stuff) on lower settings. Still wasn't that great.

So, I downloaded a patch, which enables the game to utilize both cores of a dual core processor or fully use the Hyper Threading technology present on the Pentium 4HT.

Went back into the game - HUGE difference in performance, incredible! Framerates are much higher, and I actually could set up the resolution to XGA and turn the setting to about medium with no problem. Big increase from before - 800x600 and low.

Just thought I would share my experience. If anyone else has a Pentium 4 HT or dual core CPU, let me know how it goes!

 

The game runs great on my tripple-core Xbox 360.

 

Where did you download the patch from?

 

Can you use it? Your system has an Athlon 64. . . unless you have a dual core or P4 HT desktop.
http://www.callofduty.com/patch_cod2/

 

My desktop is a P4 3.6 with ATI x600 w/256mb...I was planning on buying the game this weekend. Thanks.

 

Yes - try the game without the patch first, see how it goes, then apply the patch so you appreciate how much of a performance boost you get.

 

why doesnt a modern game like CoD2 use HT which has been around for years?


Is this the same case with quake4, battlefield 2 and age of empires 3?

 

Because most systems out there in circulation do NOT support multi-threaded applications. So it's not worth coding it in for such a small user base. You'll see a few games offer patches now that dual core systems are out, but it won't be too many. Give it another year or so until you start to see a lot of games coded to take advantage of it. They don't want to develop them with multi-threaded in mind, and become dependant on that for the game to run correctly, since many people won't be able to run them...and they'll sell less copies.

 

Agreed, nearly all of the games that come out over the next year or two [not really sure about the timeframe] should all run fine on single core processors, as that is what the majority of the population has. When dual-core becomes mainstream for a while, then I think we will see multi threaded games become more popular.