Will we ever get this expansion with multi-core support?

raised from the dead... again.

i saw plenty of these kind of posts. i have been searching for 3 hours for a definitive answer.

i have a quad core processor. *running at 3.3ghz*

i have dual video cards on crossfire (yes, AMD all the way) *512gb x2*

i have 6gb of memory. *DDR3 1333*

i am familiar with computers and how they work, but i can't seem to grasp why it would be so hard to have the game use more than the one core. i look at my displays with Rainmeter(sent from the Gods in LCARS fashion) and see 25% of my total cpu being used by SINS... a few times it will jump to 27%-28%. but that is it.

I am also running the mod "Sacrifice of Angels: for entrenchment" and downloaded a map that is supposed to depict the entire milky way in the star trek universe. i play for an hour. everything is fine. i play for 3 hours, it starts slowing down. on my 5th hour, the game is running at 5 fps and pauses every 4 secs for 7secs. and becomes unplayble. needless to say, the map has 257 planets. 38 stars. and more than 5 hours gameplay...

this is running at full settings.

when running at minimal, i can only get to about 7 hrs, and it starts doing the same thing...

not to mention, while doing this, the game will mini dump every 30 mins, usually right after an auto save. even turning off auto save changes nothing.

i can't make sense of it, and franky, i am bored with playing on tiny maps with an hour gameplay at most...

has there been any progress since the last post?

yours truly, munkycheez

*edit* *added specs to system description*

Sins refuses to use all my CPU power and I only have a 2.93Ghz dual core CPU. It usually uses 100% of CPU1 while occasionally dropping down to 50% CPU1 and 50% CPU0. It won't use most of both. Even when CPU1 is being hammered, the other one is doing almost nothing.

I find this interesting. I'm using the same mod, but the Diplomacy version. Right about 7 hours in for me as well, the game starting freezing for about 1.5 seconds every 4 seconds. I have 3 manual saves for this game, the one right about 6:30 in runs smooth. The one at 6:45 in, runs smooth. The last one at 7:05, freezing and chopping. Very little could have occurred in the game in that amount of time to cause such a drastic reduction in performance.

My system isn't as powerful as yours, and I'm playing on a large map made by me that has 2 stars and 90 planets. Me and 7 AIs with large fleet sizes.

Windows 7 (reduced/removed unnecessary processes)

Intel Wolfdale E7500 2.93Ghz Dual Core

4GB G.Skill (made for gaming, forgot exact stats)

MSI TwinFrozr 1G OC (NVIDIA GeForce 250GT PCI/E x16 1GB)

Apologies in advance, but I simply have to get my $0.02 in.

As the poster above me has mentioned, DX11 is supposed to be the Threaded revolution for games, and while the hype would truly suggest this, let me comment on why I find it an inaccurate prediction.

First, the DirectX API does the majority of it's processing on the GPU, not the CPU. Unfortunately, it has been made clear by previous posters that the Video Card/GPU are not the Bottleneck that is experienced by SINS players.

Second, multithreading isn't really all that big of a deal. In fact, SINS is already multithreaded.

Let us make a distinction between Virtual Threads and Physical Cores.

A Thread is a path of execution, (usually) maintained by the CLR - the virtual environment all of your managed programs run on. It's maximum possible speed is equal to one Core. There can be hundreds of threads running at once, each doing a separate task, all operated by one Core at a time. (The cores hop constantly between threads, dumping their cycles and continuing through the thread pool)

A Multi-Threaded application can do more than one task simultaneously, which was a huge deal when it came out. But even SINS already has this now.

Here's the problem: a program working as hard as it can on a Quad core 2.6 GHZ PC could only possibly use 2.6GHZ worth of processing power at one instance, whether the burden is assigned to a single core at a time or split among all of them (25% each, which is what SINS does in this situation now).

A Multi-Core game (application) would have the capacity to use more than the possible processing power of one core at a time. This is where the programming gets tricky, as you're programming to maximize the efficiency of a Physical Object (A Core) while you're interacting with it through the CLR (Threads). Throw DirectX on top of that and you might as well give up.