Any AOE3 reviews that show the benefits of dual-core?

[fatty4ksu]

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[SunnyD]

Games generally won't show any benefit of dual core systems simply because they're not written to take advantage of dual cores on any meaningful level. About the only benefit you'll see would be if you run thread affinity as per another poster's instructions - which will simply isolate the OS to one core and the game to another.

 

[HendrixFan]

They considered optimizing for dual core but decided that they didnt have enough time to do so, considering how few of the people buying the game would benefit from it. They did optimize it for SLI though, and you should see larger than normal boosts there.

Its a shame about the dual core because with all the pathing the game has to do, along with the rest of the AI, it would benefit quite a bit.