CPU vs GPU

[Kallanis123]

<p>I recently came back to EQ2 from an extended hiatus playing WoW and Aion.  I had heard there was a LU that started pushing more of the rendering processes from the CPU to the GPU.  Is this true? I'm not complaining about performance, but would love to get confirmation this is being addressed (move more processes to the GPU). </p><p>My system specs:</p><p>AMD 940 @ 3.5 Ghz</p><p>4GBs of 1066 RAM</p><p>1792MB Nvidia 275 OC'd</p><p>SSD for C:drive, running EQ2 on 7200RPM 500GB (32MB cache) drive</p><p>What I've seen after coming back:</p><p>I dual box and my CPU utilization on cores 0 and 1 are 100%, ~15% on cores 2 and 3. Memory utilization at 3.1 GB. Average FPS in all zones: anywhere from 30s-70s.</p><p>Thanks.</p>

[Trellium]

<p><cite>Kallanis123 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I recently came back to EQ2 from an extended hiatus playing WoW and Aion.  I had heard there was a LU that started pushing more of the rendering processes from the CPU to the GPU.  Is this true? I'm not complaining about performance, but would love to get confirmation this is being addressed (move more processes to the GPU). </p><p>My system specs:</p><p>AMD 940 @ 3.5 Ghz</p><p>4GBs of 1066 RAM</p><p>1792MB Nvidia 275 OC'd</p><p>SSD for C:drive, running EQ2 on 7200RPM 500GB (32MB cache) drive</p><p>What I've seen after coming back:</p><p>I dual box and my CPU utilization on cores 0 and 1 are 100%, ~15% on cores 2 and 3. Memory utilization at 3.1 GB. Average FPS in all zones: anywhere from 30s-70s.</p><p>Thanks.</p></blockquote><p>They moved a few things onto a second core, but EQ2 doesn't use more than two CPU's at this time.</p><p>They made shadows an optional gpu calculation. If you go to the Shadows options, you will see that you can tell it to use CPU or GPU shadows.</p><p>Shader 3 support coming up as well for better graphics throughout the game (21000+ items and 400 zones updated).</p>

[TSR-DanielH]

<p><cite>Trellium wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>They moved a few things onto a second core, but EQ2 doesn't use more than two CPU's at this time.</p><p>They made shadows an optional gpu calculation. If you go to the Shadows options, you will see that you can tell it to use CPU or GPU shadows.</p><p>Shader 3 support coming up as well for better graphics throughout the game (21000+ items and 400 zones updated).</p></blockquote><p>Thanks for posting that information.  As Trellium mentions, you're probably referring to the new GPU shadows option when you mention shifting processes to the graphics card.</p>