Crysis *NOT* optimized for Multi-Core, yet?

[hellawaits]

there are some pretty intense sequences later where there are mortars and what have you going off everywhere, and none of my cores have even gone near 90%! i remember cevat saying that it wouldn't provide necessarily faster FPS, but reduce overall stuttering and make for a more smooth gameplay. i didn't start this thread with the intention of bashing cevat or crysis, as i have a feeling that we will see a patch on release day fixing some problems of the shipped build. i have confidence that crytek will fix this issue (not using my 4 cores!), the question is how long will it take. if they fail to deliver, don't expect anyone to listen to a thing crytek says in the future.

*edit* i spelled the first word incorrectly and that **** bugs me

[crainger]

Originally Posted by Mr_LoL

So the general consensus is that if it used all four cores, the game will run faster?

i don't think so as the game appears to be heavily GPU limited at the moment.

[conroejoe]

Originally Posted by hellawaits

there are some pretty intense sequences later where there are mortars and what have you going off everywhere, and none of my cores have even gone near 90%! i remember cevat saying that it wouldn't provide necessarily faster FPS, but reduce overall stuttering and make for a more smooth gameplay. i didn't start this thread with the intention of bashing cevat or crysis, as i have a feeling that we will see a patch on release day fixing some problems of the shipped build. i have confidence that crytek will fix this issue (not using my 4 cores!), the question is how long will it take. if they fail to deliver, don't expect anyone to listen to a thing crytek says in the future.

*edit* i spelled the first word incorrectly and that **** bugs me

Well if the CPU could do more work to improve performance, by all means thats why I bought a quad. I'd like to see them optimize for multi cores more than they have. You know 20 - 30 FPS ain't a whole lot so if the CPU has to do a bit of work to help out then by all means.

[Mr_LoL]

Originally Posted by crainger

i don't think so as the game appears to be heavily GPU limited at the moment.

Probably because a certain Mr Yerli said the game will be cpu limited instead of gpu to try and help Intel sell more quads.

[SH0DAN]

Originally Posted by conroejoe

I bought mine because all the UE3 based games take advantage of it. Crysis was supposed to, but more dev lies. I love my quad, games are so much smoother with it and UE3 games just roar.

Agreed,but I mostly bought it for video encoding,etc.Gaming a distant second.

Originally Posted by Mr_LoL

Probably because a certain Mr Yerli said the game will be cpu limited instead of gpu to try and help Intel sell more quads.

I am starting to wonder just how much money Intel stuffed into his pockets. ?

[AngelGraves13]

Does this game even attempt to use the full CPU of the system? I wonder if this is a "bug" or their way of making their own game run like crap and then release a huge update which increases performance tenfold.

[FastRedPonyCar]

Originally Posted by Mr_LoL

So the general consensus is that if it used all four cores, the game will run faster?

No. The game doesn't care what CPU you've got. I've put my ultra in my brothers old 939 amd machine and got nearly the same frame rate as my OC'd E6600.

The only thing I think the game uses the CPU for is the physics which I also noticed very little differenec between my computer and my brothers when using the ultra.

[mumstheword]

Maybe Crysis and CryEngine2 is so well developed that it doesn't even need 2 extra cores.

[hordaktheman]

Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron?

[conroejoe]

Originally Posted by mumstheword

Maybe Crysis and CryEngine2 is so well developed that it doesn't even need 2 extra cores.

lol... you'd think it would more of the four cores for the physics and AI. Yeah, I forgot the AI isn't very smart. Shoot one from cover and cloaked and the whole island knows right where you are even the guys in the boats 3 miles out...

[Chrisimo]

This is a quote from Cry-Alex of Crytek:

Hey guys,

as for the multicore support. The game engine has several heavy processing threads running at any time, with the principal threads being the main thread (AI, game logic, renderer), Physics, Particle system and audio thread, with others such as the streaming, input and network threads using less processor time. As such the game does make use of multi-core processors, including quad core.

Most benchmarks shown so far have been performed under GPU limited situations where the increased performance of the CPU is not seen. The benefits will still be there under very heavy conditions, such as fire fights in the more processor intensive levels.

cheers,
-alex

[ralinn]

Originally Posted by hordaktheman

Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron?

haha, indeed