Supreme Commander hardware discussions

Good evening,

Last week I was playing Supreme Commander with my 3 friends at a LAN party. After a while (when we had around 200 units each on the field) my notebook (1.73 GHz Sonoma, 1.5 GB, X700 128 MB M1437G) started to lag very much. There were lag spikes (game froze for 5 seconds) and then it all continued again.

My friends told me that it is because I have a single core processor and this game was made for dual core. What are your thoughts about this? Does SupCom fully use dual core?

Thanks

 

it uses quad core actually , look at the hardware guide at gamespot.

 

yes, the game does take full advantage of multiple cores
so ideally the best rig to run it would be

a quad core
8800 gtx [no sli because it isnt supported]
4 gb ram

but obviously that wont work in a laptop
however my laptop [see sig] runs it pretty well even in large scale conflicts at 1920x1200 all settings high

 

Yeah, Supreme Commander is programmed to take advantage of multiple cores. The age when higher clock speeds meant better gaming performance is coming to a close, ladies and gentlemen!

 

(tears) :cry:
that means that my P4 will be more outdated than it already is...

 

I have a quad core and I don't see the support when playing. it will sometime use the second core but never the 3rd or 4th. usually the first core runs 85-95% of the load the the rest do nothing. they lied or the code is not up to par to what they said.

 

I suppose this means the gaming industry is adapting faster than expected. Wonder how long it will take for 64-bit support and Dx10 to go from eccentric to common.

 

Really,the other company I'm keeping my fingers crossed in hope of it's extinction is definitely SIS.
My first ever PC was plagued by one of them...
So I really understand how you feel

 

I agree completely. Nobody seems to voice this in the gaming forums, and "professional" reviewers don't give it nearly as much emphasis as it needs. Once you get into huge battles with hundreds or thousands of units, it is the CPU and not the GPU that is the bottleneck. I'm not sure how the network code is done in SupCom, but I will bet that if the host of the LAN party had a P4 and the others had Core Duo's, the P4 would lag the game for everyone.

 

ive also noticed some weirdness in lan parties if the processor brands are mixed (amd and intel) it seems they run in different ways or sumthin. Quite strange.