Tricking your PC Games into thinking you have a Quad core??

[eternalone]

With the newer Games etc adopting multi core, quad core support, I was wondering does anyone think someone can develop a program to trick pc games such as GTA 4 into thinking its running on 4 cores instead of 2??? Like maybe somehow splitting the 2 cores into 4 smaller cores some how???

I dont know if its even possible, but wanted to know your guy's opinion on this and would it improve gameplay on dual cores if such a program could be made??

 

[F1shF4t]

Originally posted by: eternalone
With the newer Games etc adopting multi core, quad core support, I was wondering does anyone think someone can develop a program to trick pc games such as GTA 4 into thinking its running on 4 cores instead of 2??? Like maybe somehow splitting the 2 cores into 4 smaller cores some how???

I dont know if its even possible, but wanted to know your guy's opinion on this and would it improve gameplay on dual cores if such a program could be made??

This has already been done via hyperthreading in hardware. This improved multitasking as it allowed some things to happen in parallel. However, it does not increase the total execution resources just allow to utilise them more efficiently.

If GTA4 is maxing out what a dually can execute, making it think there are more cores will not increase the performance.

 

[polarbear6]

what will be the use
you have a gallon of water make it half or four i think it would make a little difference
the extra two cores are more of a luxury to the game
its like
two waiters in a five star hotel and four waiters in a five star hotel
u can like trick the customer by making ur waiters change the clothes frequently (appearance)
but ultimately u will observe that the customers will be complaining of slow speed ;p
between do tell me if u ever managed to take a hold of such a software ;p

 

[SlowSpyder]

The program actually needs the resources that the 2 extra cores provide. If your processor has a total processing power of x, then just dividing x into 4 smaller parts doesn't change the total amount of processing power you have... it's still x. This game wants more then x, no matter how much you divide it up, it's still x power in total.

 

[Cogman]

Just don't do it. If you games know how to use multithreading, I'm 99% sure the game developers took into account how to optimize the number of threads the games use to provide the best performance. Even if they didn't, the performance gain would be minimum at best.

If you are looking at the windows task manager and saying "OMG only 50% utilization!". Chances are the game isn't multithreaded. CPU untilization is not equal the to the speed your game is running at. In fact, too many threads will actually hurt performance because of the extra overhead involved in creating and using threads.

 

[Denithor]

Sell your dual and upgrade to a cheap quad?

Q9400 $230
Q9550 $270

PhII 920 $195
PhII 940 $235

If your board supports any of those you're gold, just upgrade if you really need more performance.

As a general note, I think we're going to see more threads like this cropping up throughout this year. More and more games & apps are going toward highly threaded processing to take advantage of today's multicore systems (devs have now had long enough to shift from single to multithreading on new software).

 

[RM1]

I recalled in the hyperthreading days of P4, in most cases for games, there will be a decrease in performance.

 

[Cogman]

Originally posted by: RM1
I recalled in the hyperthreading days of P4, in most cases for games, there will be a decrease in performance.

Back in the day, most games weren't threaded. That's still somewhat true today.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: Cogman

Originally posted by: RM1
I recalled in the hyperthreading days of P4, in most cases for games, there will be a decrease in performance.

Back in the day, most games weren't threaded. That's still somewhat true today.

no its very true today.

LOL...

i think games will become multi threaded for gpu's faster then cpu's.

 

[soccerballtux]

How do mods get elected that don't even know what a shift key is?

 

[Soccerman06]

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
How do mods get elected that don't even know what a shift key is?

because they are better than us...