Duel core

maybe? :SURPRISED:

Well a Dual-Core CPU is listed in the Recommended System Specs, so my guess is, it will be able to utilise the functionality.

the game uses one core to load textures or something like that and the other core to do the rest... least i think thats what yarley told me

Some clarification would be good.

one core scratches the others back when it itches

yea lol i agree with kosc

I don't realy see a problem with duel cores. I have yet to see a game not be run properly simply becuse one is using a duel core or qwad core as aposded to the old singels. Unless thay just come out and say there's something wrong with them I woun't sweat it.

even if DUAL core (sorry i cant stand bad spelling  :p ) processors are not supported in release I'm sure they will be soon after

Alaric for the win! A duel is a battle between two people. I certainly wouldn't want my processor cores attacking and killing each other.

My contribution otherwise is:
Yes.

Esatly. You can't clam this is going to be a game for low AND high and mashines if you're not going to support dual and quad cores. (coreted spelling ^^)

That makes absolutely zero sense. If there's nothing to use on those cores there's no reason to be aware of them.

Quad cores are different from Dual cores because of the architecture, so not many games support them right now.

What I was told is that while the game won't use your second processor to the fullest, that second processor will still be handling background operations and streamlining the game. Also, a C2D has two fast cores, so even if it's just running one of them for the game it's still going to get good performance.

TBH i'd rather have Sins using all of one core and none of the rest than sharing it equally, because I run in windowed mode with dual monitors. So it only using another core for texture loading is a good thing.

If you are using SLI/Crossfire or the "dual gpu cards", (cards really use SLI/Crossfire, of course they leave that part out) you can set the game to use only one CPU core through your SLI/Crossfire settings (CPU is not a typo). I really hope this game uses multi-threading, especially with all of the ships/ai/planets/meshes it has to process

Sorry I think I must have miss spoken what I was trying to convay. Thay can't clam that this is a game for both low end computers and higher end computers unless the dual core's and quad core's can use the game. As for multi-threading that is a verry good qwestion and likewise I hope to see that function for the game.

Or you can just set affinity with ctrl-alt-del. But I trust the game not to overstep its boundaries, if it does I'll reign it back in



No, this still makes no sense. If there's nothing to use it doesn't matter, it'll just run like a regular single-core application (are you under the assumption non-smp aware games won't run on dual or quad-core processors?). You want them to add a bunch of inverse square root function calls or something to run on the other cores just for shits and giggles?

Supreme Commander didn't take advantage of the second core in beta...and required 2gigs of CPU power. My Dual 1.4 gig wouldn't run it because of that. Sins must use both cores, they both read as getting more use while it's running than when it's not (one typically goes to about 75-100 while the other moves up to about 50, with nothing running both are down in the 2s and 3s).



If I answer yes to this does that make me a bad person?

Yes! It should be doing bubble sort instead!

The second core is just used to speed up texture loading. That said, processors with multiple cores tend to be significantly faster than their single-core counterparts regardless.

Can anyone tell me how big the download will be please??????

About 1GB.