The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Multithreading.

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Snow_fox, Nov 12, 2006.

  1. Snow_fox

    Snow_fox Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    21
    Messages:
    220
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    its my understanding that games that allow mutlithreading use both cores of a dual core processor and divide the work up to give more over all power..

    so.. while I am aware that its not LARGLY used at the moment.. I was wondering if oblivion and F.E.A.R. multithread?
     
    Snow_fox, Nov 12, 2006
    #1
  2. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

    Reputations:
    4,843
    Messages:
    15,707
    Likes Received:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    456
    yes, newer games are coming out to have multi-threaded support, so you can definitely see the difference in framerate if you have a single-core and a dual-core...

    make sure that your system is optimized for it... because its not done automatically for you.

    Try this:
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416
     
    Gophn, Nov 12, 2006
    #2
  3. Jalf

    Jalf Comrade Santa

    Reputations:
    2,883
    Messages:
    3,468
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    I don't recall anything about those two games being multithreaded. I could be wrong though, but I suspect they're both singlethreaded.
     
    Jalf, Nov 13, 2006
    #3
  4. Notebook Solutions

    Notebook Solutions Company Representative NBR Reviewer

    Reputations:
    461
    Messages:
    1,849
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Oblivion has a patch for dual core. You can search the net for other patches.

    Charlie :)
     
    Notebook Solutions, Nov 13, 2006
    #4
  5. Zellio

    Zellio The Dark Knight

    Reputations:
    446
    Messages:
    1,464
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Oblivion was always dual core. Even the first version. Use tweakguides. Why do you people always ignore me when I say use it? Tweakguides can show you how to tweak Oblivion to run on just about any machine...
     
    Zellio, Nov 13, 2006
    #5