Now that the demo is out, I am interested in seeing whether the multi-threading support for AOE3 actually produces any significant performance differences on a dual core.
The first test I did was start the first demo campaign on easy, select the the railroad workers, walk them down the road to the indian outpost, build a trading post, then walk them down the road to the enemy trading post and have them throw dynamite at it until they got killed by enemy troops.
The fraps results of that were min 8, average 25.57, max 128, and a look at the detailed log showed that the framerate was, for the most part, very close to the average with little variance.
This was at 1920x1200 with a 7800gtx, an x2 4400, and all graphical settings maxxed. If anyone else has some results from some similar testing with single core I'd be interested to see them, as from this point I would suggest that either AOE3 runs exceptionally badly at that resolution, or dual core has negligible benefit.
) to dual core compatible and run it again when that happens. There will be to many variables because of a bios update but it should give us a good idea.
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