Multi-Core Support

[TBLancer]

<p>Will EQ2 be supporting "Dual Core" "Core 2" multi core CPU's at any point? There's been a lot of debate regarding whether or not this will improve game client performance, in short I believe it will as only 50% of the CPU is being utilised.</p><p>Blizzard is adding multi core support to World of Warcraft soon, they already had it running on their test server and OMG massive performance gains reported by players especially in FPS, some claiming double FPS.</p><p>EQ2 is much more CPU GPU intensive than World of Warcraft and I believe we would see a much a greater (and needed) increase in client performance if it were to go down the that path. Most PC hardware is now multi-core (GPU's, CPU's & even M/B chipsets now), SOE cannot stay in the dark ages forever. I think it may be only a matter of time before we start seeing quad core desktop cpu's as they're being pushed heavily by Intel now for servers (Xeon).</p><p>Mostly I just would like to know if there's any plan or work being done in that area by the Dev's.</p>

[TheJoeJoeMan]

I wish they would support it, I could definatly see a huge boost in performance, especially if you use shadows since those are done mainly by the CPU. One day maybe<img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Fatkiddown]

<p>What you can do is set eq2.exe to run on your second cpu core.  That way any other single core apps like ventrilo or whatever you have running in background use CPU 0 and eq2.exe will use CPU 1.   Just right click the eq2 process in task manager and "Set  Affinty" to CPU 1.   Just uncheck CPU 0 so all that is checked is CPU 1.   </p><p>This is just shifting around your resources THIS IS NOT a way to get multicore support.</p>