asmiro wrote:
in the TSR's example, he upgraded from a 2.8Ghz P4 single core processor, to a 2.4Ghz quad core. the ONLY reason he saw any performance gain at all, is likley a combination of having more system ram, and having at least 2 cores in the system with the recent addition of the process off-loading "feature". lets say for kicks and grins he started out with a 3.2Ghz single core P4... then went to that same 2.4Ghz quad core.... he wouldnt have noticed much of an improvement, and may even have noticed LESSER performance. why? because you are actually DOWNGRADING to a slower single core, even though ALL FOUR cores run at 2.4Ghz. the one that EQ2 uses is still significantly SLOWER than your original processor.
I can point to several reasons why the performance increased, actually. The increased CPU cache plays a big role in it among other things. I didn't mean to imply that the multi-core support was the only reason for the gains, but they definitely played a part.
The multi-core support performance gains will help the most when at the higher quality settings in game. I would need to run some benchmarks with the feature turned on and then off to tell exactly how much the multiple cores are helping. I imagine I will try something like that soon.