QuadCore Support

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I have being playing this game off and on and I have, what even now, is still considered a fast. rig. 680i, 8800gtx, 6600 quadcore oc'd to 3 ghz. Though multitasking is cool, I notice that Sins seems to be a CPU hog. For example, I can usually capture video from a camcorder using pinnicale and do other things on the computer. BUT, if I am playing sins, I will drop frames in the video capture. Ofcourse, this could have to do with disk access more than CPU access. Perhaps I need to set an affinity for either program. But the question is, does Sins natively take advantage if quadcores? Would it even matter?

The game is pretty cool so far. Keep it up.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
I doubt Sins is SMP aware, there's really no reason for it to be. It's not a resource hog.

Setting affinities should fix this.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
sins uses one core for the game and another for loading textures, that is all
Galactic Civilizations III
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Well you can put it this way, if you get a quad and the game uses 2 cores. The game actually gets 2 cores all to it self, so all other windows programs and such uses the remaining 2.

Hell ive even done video encoding while playing Sins haha :D
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
You know I never bothered to check if we can still set affinity for cores. Shoot I almost never go beyond 50% for anything I do to begin with. So it has never crossed my mind to do so.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
You know I never bothered to check if we can still set affinity for cores. Shoot I almost never go beyond 50% for anything I do to begin with. So it has never crossed my mind to do so.
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this is a death threat.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

You know I never bothered to check if we can still set affinity for cores. Shoot I almost never go beyond 50% for anything I do to begin with. So it has never crossed my mind to do so.
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oh you can, but vista does alot better job at it automatically, not that i know for my self but what ive read, since ive only used vista with this machine.
I do tend to set affinity for certain things like the video stuff, it can happen that some of the 2 things chooses to use the same core and the video output gets some studder so i avoided that with changing the affinity.


You know I never bothered to check if we can still set affinity for cores. Shoot I almost never go beyond 50% for anything I do to begin with. So it has never crossed my mind to do so.


this is a death threat.
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with your 486 you can prolly play old games at normal speed while i gotta play them at 500% of normal :(
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Sweet! I guess I'll have to play with it soon for the fun of it. For some reason I assumed they removed that functionality from Vista; yet I dont know why this is so.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
Sins? A rescource hog?
How so?
I have a really bad CPU (AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHZ~) but a good Graphics Card, the CPU when running sins, litterally has never hit 100% yet, even in huge battles.
Graphics Wise it doesn't even heat my 8800GT up.
Quite Frankly, In term's of resource use, its quite pathetic, which is great!
It means that old computers can run it, fine.
When I played this on my 6600 GeForce (not GT or anything) I was getting Max graphics, at 70FPS (Throttled by Refresh Rate).
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
Sins? A rescource hog?
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well they have said they are adding purty graphics, so im guessing the reqs will go up some
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Sins? A rescource hog?


well they have said they are adding purty graphics, so im guessing the reqs will go up some
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I am guessing so also. Glad I got my 8800GT :CONGRAT:
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
do i have to kill you again koscky?
Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top
you can try :d