sure its been asked before but does EQ2 use both cores?

[meaogre]

Word of nerfcraft does and was released very shortly after EQ2 was. Does EQ2 use both cores?

[Grol]

No. It does not currently support multiple cores, and WoW is not an example of anything in EQ2. Period. Both are MMOs, thats abuot it. Anuy similarities, technically or otherwise, are due to limitations, and similarities in vision.

[Tebos]

meaogre wrote:

Word of nerfcraft does and was released very shortly after EQ2 was. Does EQ2 use both cores?

If it's been asked and answered before, then why ask it again, right?

[DasUberFuzzy]

because if it was answered, but lost in the shuffle/mound of posts, and not easily found, then its as good as not being answered at all.

[Tebos]

DasUberFuzzy wrote:

because if it was answered, but lost in the shuffle/mound of posts, and not easily found, then its as good as not being answered at all.

...and the search feature does what for you?

[DasUberFuzzy]

finds me pages and pages of people asking the question, or people answering with use that program to force eq2 to run on 1 core

[Wingrider01]

meaogre wrote:

Word of nerfcraft does and was released very shortly after EQ2 was. Does EQ2 use both cores?

No it does not use both cores, that client was not written to support parallel processing, nor was it patched it. it was patched the same way the eq2 was to affliliate itself on a single core with no issues of bleed over that could cause cpu timing requirement issues. Play it and others, all of them process mainly on a single core with the hardware drivers and the OS (if you have one that supports multiple (SMP) processing cores - not all do) that are written to do so migrate to the non-primary core when requird

[Zenith]

Ok being it looks like the only person here who does play both games let me fill you in.

WoW did NOT at launch support both cores. It does now. As of 2.3 they added dual core support and it made a noticable improvement in the game on dual core systems. Now this is not to say the entire game is multi-threading but enough of it is that all dual core people saw a performance increase.

EQ2 does NOT support dual cores. Matter of fact they went out of their way to patch it way back in LU28 to make it exclusively single core to get around a bug with the core's timing and people exploiting it to make them run faster. They could of simply required you to install the dual core optimizer or required software to run, instead they changed how the game processes. This means in a dual core system it will only run on one core at all instead of being load balanced at 50% per core like most other things. Seemingly randomly this causes issues with some people with dual cores who end up with 50% on one core and 0% the other core. My desktop has this bug with eq2 and has had it since lu28 sadly.

Unfortunatly EQ2 is the game that could really use dual core support. It's so cpu heavy even a bit of multi-threading could really help out game performance. Pretty much all new pc's are shipping with dual cores and have been for almost a year now. It's not technology that's going away and making use of it could really help turn the game around for many people.

[SmeedSmeedly]

the built for future hardware claim is such a crock of [Removed for Content]

[Wingrider01]

Alondnar@Antonia Bayle wrote:

Ok being it looks like the only person here who does play both games let me fill you in.

WoW did NOT at launch support both cores. It does now. As of 2.3 they added dual core support and it made a noticable improvement in the game on dual core systems. Now this is not to say the entire game is multi-threading but enough of it is that all dual core people saw a performance increase.

EQ2 does NOT support dual cores. Matter of fact they went out of their way to patch it way back in LU28 to make it exclusively single core to get around a bug with the core's timing and people exploiting it to make them run faster. They could of simply required you to install the dual core optimizer or required software to run, instead they changed how the game processes. This means in a dual core system it will only run on one core at all instead of being load balanced at 50% per core like most other things. Seemingly randomly this causes issues with some people with dual cores who end up with 50% on one core and 0% the other core. My desktop has this bug with eq2 and has had it since lu28 sadly.

Unfortunatly EQ2 is the game that could really use dual core support. It's so cpu heavy even a bit of multi-threading could really help out game performance. Pretty much all new pc's are shipping with dual cores and have been for almost a year now. It's not technology that's going away and making use of it could really help turn the game around for many people.

Funny, the diagnostic applications do not show the WOW client as utilizing parallel processing. Can you link some official documentation that show WOW as being fully parallel processing capable - aka using both cores. Yes I play both also on DC and QC intel based systems. Spliting processes across the cores is not supporting DC or QC for parallel processing, which is exactly what the 2.3 patch notes stated. There is a major difference between parallel processing and spliting processes